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mixture of h^'-draulic cement and lime in paste, in such proportions as ar- 

 chitect shall direct, mixed with clean sharp sand, in the best proportions, 

 and thoroughly tempered. 



All the bricks will be well wet before they are used. 



All the stones will be laid on their natural beds, and thoroughly cleaned 

 from dust or dirt before they are laid, and wet, if so directed by the archi- 

 tect. 



Laihing and plastering-. — All the ceilings and walls, and stud partition 

 walls, of every part of the building, will be lathed to the forms laid down 

 on the plans, or as directed by the architect, Math the best sawed laths, five 

 nails to each lath. 



All the walls and ceilings of all the rooms in the basement story will be 

 plastered with a scratch coat, brown coat, and hard finished coat, laid ou 

 true and even, and finished in the best manner. 



All the walls and ceilings of the professors' rooms, laboratories, and 

 rooms in the towers, to their tops, except such as are groined, will be 

 plastered in a similar manner, with three coats. 



All the canopies and partitions in lecture-rooms to be plastered three 

 coats, as above described. 



All the remaining halls and apartments in the whole building, including 

 library, museum, the iwo lecture-rooms, the two galleries of art, the great 

 central hall and its vestibules, the Regents' room, the front and rear stair 

 halls and the rooms in the two central tront towers, the octagonal and cam- 

 panile towers below the line of the roof of the main building, Avill be plas- 

 tered throughout with two coats, a scratch coat and a stucco-finished brown 

 coat, well hand floated, laid on in the most perfect, true, and even manner. 

 The brown coat will be laid off in courses and colored to represent stone. 



Ornamental plnstermg. — All the ceilings of the museum, library, gal- 

 leries of art, and the rooms connected with them, will be groined and lib- 

 bed in the best manner, according to the plans and directions of the archi- 

 tect. The ribs will be run at the intersection of all the groins, and across 

 tlie ceilings between the groins, against the walls over the windows, and 

 in all places which the architect shall direct; all the red lines on the plans 

 being ribs. The ribs shall be of rich Norman section, and of good propor- 

 tion, varying from 7 by 9 to 11 by 13 inches in the ceilings, and of larger 

 dimensions in the arches over the columns dividing the aisles. In the 

 gallery of art, heavy ribs, twenty inches wide, shall be run under the 

 arches supporting the clerestory. 



At the intersection of all the ribs, and at the crov\mof all the ribs not in- 

 tersected by others, bosses of foliage, of the best Norman design, which 

 will be furnished by the architect, and of the richest character, well relieved 

 from the grounds, will be placed. 



The shafts of all the columns of all the apartments and halls, which 

 shall be of the richest character, composed of clusters of engaged columns 

 in rebates, and made according to the plans of the architect,\vill be run 

 with gaged mortar, in the best, truest, and most workmanUke maimer; 

 and all the separate columns of each clustered shaft shall have moulded 

 plinths, and bases, and foliage Norman caps, of such design as architect 

 shall furnish, and put up and modelled according to his directions. 



Around all the windows a handsome moulded Norman jamb and arch, 

 whose section shall be a double rebate, with two engaged columns, shall 

 be run. All the columns of the above to have plinthS;, and bases, and 



