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 |