REPORTS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 659 



rooms below the galleries, and one case on each side of each of the alcoves, both of 

 the ground floor and galleries. At both ends of the room, oases three feet (3 feet) 

 wide will be carried up to the under side of the end galleries, as per plan. 



All the above cases, will be ornamented, carved, and finished per plan and direc- 

 tions of architect, painted three coats best white lead in oil, grained, and varnished 

 three coats. 



The transverse aisle of museum will have cases of similar make and finish carried 

 around the sides and front, except at the stair entrances. These cases will be eighteen 

 inches (18 inches) in depth. 



The two rooms in the front tower will be covered all around with cases nine feet 

 (9 feet) high, of similar design, make, and finish, as will also the room in the campa- 

 nile tower. 



The room over the rear stairs will have cases nine feet (9 feet) high, of similar 

 design, make, and finish with the above. 



The room over the Secretary's room, in the rear central tower, will be fitted with 

 plain cases, shelved, and with doors glazed with good single-thickness American 

 glass all around. 



All the remaining outside doors will be made in a similar manner, and of similar 

 material to the above, of three thicknesses of one and a half inch plank. 



All the inside doors of the basement will have neat and plain casings, with semi- 

 circular heads of white pine, painted and grained, white oak or any other wood that 

 may be directed, and varnished four coats. The doors will be made of black walnut 

 or white pine one and a half inch plank, put together diagonally in two thicknesses, 

 grained to imitate such wood as may be directed, and varnished three coats. 



All the doors of the towers above the roof line will have handsome jambs and 

 arches of white pine, grained and varnished as above. 



The doors will be of two thicknesses, of one and a half inch black walnut, or 

 butternut, or white pine, painted, grained, and varnished as above. 



The principal doors of the library, museum, galleries of art, Kegents' room, and 

 lecture rooms, will have jambs and arches of the section of a double rebate, with an 

 engaged column or octagonal mould each. The columns will have plinths, bases, 

 and caps, well trimmed and handsomely carved. 



The doors will be mad« of three thicknesses of one and a quarter inch plank, 

 butteimut, or black walnut, or white pine, grained in the best manner, and varnished 

 four coats, with bronze scroll hinges, key, and knob plates, &c. 



All the smaller doors of the above rooms, and of the remainder of the building, 

 will be made of three thicknesses of three-quarter inch plank, of the same descrip- 

 tion of materials and workmanship as the above, and with similar hinges, &c. 

 The jambs and arches to be of similar description and workmanship to those of the 

 principal doors. 



All the knobs of all the above doors to be of bronze. The locks to be of the best 

 manufacture, and largest size, suitable to the dimensions of the doors. All the out- 

 side doors and principal room doors to have strong bolts. 



The sliding doors in the library alcoves to be furnished with sheaves, sheave-ways, 

 astragals, and astragal locks, of the best description. 



And, in general, all the doors for the whole building to be finished as above de- 

 scribed, in the best and most workmanlike manner, and in all respects in accordance 

 with the directions and plans of the architect. 



Roofing, §c. — All the roofs, except those of the central front towers, campanile 

 towers of the main building and west wing, and smaller octagonal and square towers 

 of the central building, will be tinned with best single cross tin, soldered together 

 in the best manner, painted two coats, and warranted tight for five years. All the 

 gutters of every part of the building, and the roof of the larger central front tower, 

 will be of the best double cross tin, and painted two coats. All the leaders, which 

 will be put in in sufficient numbers to carry off the water to the cisterns in the roofs, 

 and to the ground, will be of the best double cross tin, varying from four to six 

 inches in diameter, and made square or octagonal. If so directed, they will bo 

 painted three coats, and sanded in the second coat, tho third coat being coursed to 

 resemble stone ; and they will be put in of such sizes and in such number and situa- 

 tions as the architect shall direct. 



All the remaining roofs (i. e., of the towers, &c.) above excepted, will be made of 

 the best. Welsh slate of large size, and laid in the best manner, according to the direc- 

 tions of the architect. 



Cisterns. — In each of the roofs of the two connecting ranges a cistern of ten feet 

 square, and four feet six inches deep, which will receive the water of the main build- 



