The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-04-21
ne peoples representatives dimin-

the peoples representative dimin-
ished.
The service of this Second State
House continued until the third one
was built, for in the Acts of Assem-
bly, of 1875 the following item is
found: "At Mr.. Smyth's entreaty to
the Council to consider what lease be
given him of the house and land he
now lives in. In pursuance of the
above warrant from the Lieutenant
General Charles Calvert) it was or
dered that Mr.. Smyth have a lease of
fifty-one years of the State House of
st. Mary's according to Act of Assem-
bly,"
This Third State House was begun
in 1874 and finished in 1876. 1t no
longer stood on Middle street, but &C.
cupied part of the Governors Lot"
a six-acre tract of land at the end of
the peninsula overlooking the ST..
Mary's River.
The Third State House was credited
in its day as being the most preten-
tious public building in English North
America. 1t was built in the prevail
ing English Renaissance style. The
architect, if any, is unknown, and
from the crude specifications it is
probable that the Governor and his
Council either designed it or copied
the plans from drawings sent over
from Great Britain. The erection of
the structure was assigned to one
Capt. John Quigley, who describes
himself as merchant of st. Maries."
The Act of 1874 narrates:
The said State House is to be of
brick or stone, with slate or tile roof,
two stories high, and to continue in
length forty-fve feet, with a porch in
front sixteen feet long by twelve feet
wide and staircase over and against
the porch on the other side, sixteen
feet clear in the inside. The first
story of the said porch and stair to
be twelve feet from the top of the
floor, which shall be paved with fiat
stone or brick. The foundations to be
twenty-four inches up to the water
table, the second story nineteen inches
up to the garnet, and the gable ends
fourteen inches thick. The stairs to
be half-pace stairs, six and a half
inches rising and foot for the step,
all to be of good quartered oak; the
inner doors of the first story to be
four feet wide and eight feet high, as
also the windows of the second story,
which shall be eight in number for
each floor, with double lights, with a
transom at two-thirds the height of
the said windows, the doors of the
second story three and half feet
wide and five feet high with double
lights and transoms, and the windows
shall be eight in number as in the
first story, besides one in the second
story of the porch.
There shall be three partitions in
the second story as the Governor shall
direct, the said partitions to be double
lathed and plastered. The floors (2nd
story and porches) to be laid with
quartered white oak plank, one half
inches thick; the doors to be battened,
tn easements to be laid in linseed oil
and glazed with good square clear
glass. The summers and Orders for
the floors to be sixteen and twelve
inches square, the rafters to be eigh-
teen and a half feet long, the prin-
cipals framed and morticed in. The
whole house to be we'll plastered with
in, the roof well sealed, and the walls
pointed with good lime mortar. One
and half foot Dashboard at the gable
ends and pyramids.
This State House was evidently to be
strong, substantial building, to last
forever. Its cost was to be 100000
pounds of tobacco and cask.
1t is to be noted that there were no
chimneys provided. This was in def
erence to the prevailing spirit of So
briefly among the better classes who
did not wish to have a "bar" in the
House. However, two years later
chimneys were added, three in num-
Der, at the sides and in the rear of the
back porch. The heating of the build
ing in winter for the officials and
clerks was by means of Dutch stoves,
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