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and braces dove-tailed at one end. All the work on the exterior, namely, eaves, door-frame and door and windows, will be in accordance with the elevation and details of plate No. 1, under the head of "Architectural Details," in this Report. The weather boarding to be ploughed and overdropped.

WINDOWS.

All the window frames will be made casing with double boxes; the sash one and a half inches thick, hung with the best axle pulleys, patent sash, cord and weights, and secured on the outside with shutters one and a half inches thick, made in pairs, and in three equal panels, sunken on one side, and bead and butt on the other, hung with strap hinges and fastened with ten inch shutter bolts, and secured when open with turn buckles well screwed on the weather boarding. The small D windows will be in both front and back, and filled in with slats for ventilators.

FLOORS.

All the floors will be of heart pine, planed and grooved, well nailed to the joists and joint shot.

PARTITIONS

Will be of three by four inch scantling, placed sixteen inches between centres, and well secured to floor and ceiling.

CASINGS AND MOULDINGS.

The door jambs will be cased with inch, and finished with a beaded hanging stile three inches wide, and a two inch moulding covering the joints of the plastering; the same will be around the windows on the inside.

The sides of the school room will be wainscoted the height of the window sills, and capped on a line with the same. A black-board, or other black surface to be approved by the Directors, will be placed clear across the end of the room, behind the Teacher's desk, five feet in height, and commencing two feet from the level of the platform, with a moulding at the top and ends, and a ledge for chalk at the bottom. The lobby and clothes-room will be skirted with wash board six inches wide, the top edge slightly beveled. Closets will be made where they are drawn, and fitted up with four shelves in each.

Pin rails will be put up in each clothes room, and three dozen of the best wardrobe hooks secured on the rails in each.

DOCRS.

The outside doors will be made one-and three-fourths inches thick, bead and butt on the inside, four panels, and moulded on the outside; hung with four by four inch butts, and secured with a ten-inch rim knob lock, of the best quality. All the room doors, including those of the closets, will be one and a fourth inches thick, made with four plain raised panels, hung with three and a half by three and a half inch butts, and secured

with cottage-rim knob locks. A set of heart-pine cellar door cheeks and sill, and battoned cellar door will be made, and hung with hooks and straps, and secured with hasp and padlock. A strong rough step-ladde will be made, and securely placed in the cellar doorway; ou' side wooden steps and platform will be made to the entrance door, and two iron scrapers securely fixed to the same. A platform, four by twenty-two feet, and eight inch rise will be made for the Teacher's desk. An opening will be made in the ceiling, eighteen inches diameter, and a sliding iron register inserted n the same for ventilation, in connection with the D windows. The lumber to be of a good quality and thoroughly seasoned; the hardware, also, to be of a good quality, including nails, screws, bolts, and everything necessary to make the whole complete.

PLASTERING.

The walls, partitions and ceilings to be lathed and plastered with two coats cf brown mortar, and one of hard white finish; the brown mortar to be composed of fresh wood-burnt lime, and clean sharp sand, well haired.

PAINTING AND GLAZING.

All the wood-work usually painted will be painted with three coats of pure white lead and best linseed oil, and finished in plain colors, as the directors may direct. The sash to be all glazed with the best American glass, well bedded, sprigged and back puttied.

The size of the glass is twelve by sixteen inches, eighteen lights in each frame.

PRIVIES AND FENCING.

A neat and commodious privy is also to be constructed, divided into two compartments by a plastered partition; each to be four by five feet in the clear, and six feet high at the entrance; to be framed and weatherboarded vertically, with strips well nailed over the joints; the eaves to project twelve inches all around. The doors to be made battoned, hung with strap binges, and fistened with latches; to be fitted up with seats to accommodate two in each apartment; the floor, seats and doors to be planed. A well. six feet in diameter, will be dag, twelve feet deep, and walled in with four inch brick work, dry, and squared up properly to receive the frame work of the privy. Rugh grooved fencing, seven feet high, will be put up from the school house to the privy-dividing its apartments; the length t be determined by the Directors. All the materials to be of the best quality, and the workmanship of the different parts to be done in a neat and substantial manner, and to the satisfaction of the Directors or their building committee. Cost in Pennsylvania, without a cellar, four hundred and filty doilars -with a cellar, five hundred and fifty dollars.

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This is like No 1, except in outward finish and appearance. The pitch of roof is nine feet. The interior arrangaments are mostly seen in the ground plan of No. 1.

In giving the specification for this plan, the difference between this and the first, only, will be described as follows, viz.:

In framing this building it will be done so that the weather-boarding can be put on vertically, otherwise it is similar to the first, the sizes of the timbers all being the same. The rafters will be twenty inches between centres, with a collar beam of one and a half inch plank, well spiked across each, and the heel of the rafter well notched out to rest upon the plate; the front part projecting and forming the support to the eave, and that portion of the rafter will be planed, as will also the projecting pieces support.

PLAN NO. 3.

ing the roof at the gables. For detail drawings of the eave and front porch sce plate No. 1, "Architectural Details." The weather-boarding will be planed and beveled and strips three inches wide firmly nailed overthe joints.

The carpenter work, including blackboard, wil! be the same, excepting where the change in the plan makes it necessary; and the materials also of the best quality. The masonry will also be as the first, with the same arrangement of cellar windows and cellar entrance; the plastering also in like manner; the painting also the same, with glass of the same size and number in each frame. A well and privy, also fencing, and all complete to the satisfaction of the committee, according to specification of No. 1. Cost in Pennsylvania, without a cellar, five hundred dollars; with a cellar, six Lundred dollars.

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This building is somewhat larger than the preceding ones, and the main foom will conveniently seat seventy pupils. It will therefore be proper for a school with an assistant teacher, for which purpose the class rooms will be found very convenient. The extension of the platform clear across the back or north end of the main room, and the leaving of a greater space in front of the teacher's desk, will probably be an improvement of the plan as prepared by the architect.

This size and description of school-house will be proper for a thick ly settled rural vicinity or for a small village, with sixty or seventy pupils of all grades. In such places there are often too many pupils for one, and not enough for two separate schools. A large room with a principal and an assistant teacher, will just meet the wants of such a case. In this way, at little increased expense, the pupils can all be thoroughly classified, and most of the advantages of graded schools secured, under one roof and at less expense for instruction. By the provision of a separate door for cach of the sexes, it is not intended that the boys and girls shall be separated in forming the classes. Whatever advantages there are, if there be any, in the separation of the sexes in teaching, ce. tainly they are not so great as to overbalance the injury caused by the unnecessary multiplication of classes.

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