PROPOSALS
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USoR the construction and completion of PRISON,


in Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware, Of the fol-
lowing description and dimensions. will be received by the
Levy Court Commissioners Of said county


The building to be stories high, fory-fve feet in
fon fifty feet width and twenty feet in height 10 the
caves The materials OF the walls to be OF the best bricks
that can be had in the vicinity Of the place. except the
show Of the ont wall which must be OF good Phadepha
paving bricks. The roof 10 be Of good shlHgles.


Through the House, from front to rear. to be passage
of ten feet in width in each story. equally dividing the
whole with substantial doors at the extremtes of the low
er passage.


substantial for the prison spartmen the walls where
Of must be % inches thickness the inner forming
one side Of each entry 90 inches and the subdivdng
walls Of the several apartments 13 inches. of which apart
ments there will be four in each story and each one to
have fire pace and into the windows thereof must be
affixed strong gratcs and the doors to be strong and
corresponding The rafters and oss strong and the at
ter not than six inches apart. The floors of the
entries stairway and apartments to be OF inch oak and
the 6nsh of the whole to be in like substantial and cor
responding manner.


Of the oher division, designed for the keepers
modaon the outer wall will be 13 inches in thickness
the flooring of good pine, with three
each foor and fire place in each the whole to be Of
good and suitable materials, finished in plain substantial
manner the style and construction whereof to be what
mon and comfortable Brick dwellings generally are.
The Commissioners wish to know the extra rate that
would be asked to build it of Philadelphia bricks, which
NAV be brought TO Milton, only miles distant, by water.
Proposals will be received until the 25th day Of May
ne 1t, addressed TO


Lewcs, Del


