Alachua County  Est Fla

        Commissioners Court held at Newnansville 
                   Special Term May the 1st A.D. 1848 
       At a special Term of the Court held at Newnansville 
May the first day A.D. 1848. Present C. F. Fitchet President of the 
Board and Samuel B. Colding, Asa Clark and Peter Sparkman 
Esq's Commissioners a quorum of the members being present the 
board proceeded to business. --- 
       In the matter of a County Jail it is ordered that the 
Judge of Probate or President of the Board shall receive proposals 
for the building of jail for and during the next ten days 
that at the end of said ten days the said President shall enter 
into Contract with the lowest bidder, who will give good security 
for the building of said jail within one month thereafter.  That 
said jail shall be of hewed logs dovetailed together, double 
pinned, one pin inside, the other with logs set on end between 
Shall be of heavy logs with double set of logs. --- 
1foot square for a floor, One tier of logs on the top and 
the whole will Covered with heart Shingles - That all of the 
logs shall be square - That the jail shall be Sixteen 
feet clear on the inside, that there shall be a trap door 
in the loft, that the door shall be of two inch plank 
doubled and spiked together - that the trap door shall be 
two and a half feet by three --   that there shall be a door in 
the gable end above the logs - that the gable ends and said 
door shall be of plank and strongly made - that it shall 
be twelve feet between the floors & there shall be two logs height 
above the upper floor -- 
       That there shall be two windows or air holes eighteen by 
twenty four inches Square Secured by a double set of large iron 
bars Crossing each other - That the doors shall be fixed with strong 
hinges & locks and a ladder for the trap door - that there shall 
be a sink or hole for a spring inside secured as well as possible
 - that said hole shall not be over Six inches in diameter 
that said President may add other Conditions or particulars 
but without materially varying the foregoing ---- 
       That James Pendarvis, Bennett M. Dell, and Samuel R. 
Piles be appointed to examine said jail and decide whether it 
agrees with the foregoing description and the Contract --- 
In case they approve the work it shall be received, and