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 1838.1 Practical Carpentry and Joinery. 1 9 They will be further secured with French double-acting bolts. The frame will be two (2) inches by eight (8) inches, finished with a two (2) inch bead, and made with Gothic arch-head. The vestibule doors will be two (2) inches thick, and also made in pairs, with glass above the back rail, moulded on both sides, and paneled with mould- ings below. The frame will be made of four (4) by eight (8) inch scantling, moulded on each face, and made with a Gothic arch head-light over it. The sliding doors will all be two and a half (2$) inches thick, paneled and moulded on each face ; and hung with six (6) inch sheaves and iron way at the head. All single doors, throughout the first and second stories, will be one and three quarter (If) inches thick, paneled and moulded on each face, and hung with four (4) by four (4) inch butts, and se- cured with four and a half (4i) inch mortice locks. The third story, the attic, and the basement, will be one and a half (H) inches paneled and moulded, and hung with three and a half (3 J) by three and a half (3£) inch butts, and secured with three (3) inch mortice locks. The closet doors throughout the house will be one and a half (1£) inches thick paneled and moulded, to corre- spond with the room doors. All the jambs of the doors will be one and a half (1J) inches thick, well secured to the studding and wall-plugs, and let into the floor. Windows. All the windows of the first and sec- ond stories, including the oriel windows, will be made for sashes, one and three- quarter (If) inches thick, and double hung with strain-axle pullies, of large size, and best patent hemp cord. All the other windows will be similar except that the sashes will be one and a half (H) inches thick. The basement windows will require outside shutters one and a half (H) inches thick ; three (3) panels, moulded on one face, and bead and butt on the other, hung with hooks and straps, and secured with eight (8) inch shutter bolts, with rings, staples, and back- holders. All the other windows will require inside shutters in three (3) folds to the jamb; the centre-flaps will be Venetian pivot-blinds, and the jamb- shutter paneled and moulded on one face, with bead and butt on the other, all four (4) panels high and cut in the centre, hung and secured in the usual manner, and made to fold into soffits constructed in the jambs for that pur- pose. Cellar Windows. The cellar windows will all have solid frames made for sash one and a half inches thick, hung with butts, and se- cured with small bolts. All these windows will require neat iron guards secured in the jambs ; one of these will swing, and be secured shut with a bolt, hasp, and padlock on the inside. Dressings. The dressings of the first story will be of eight (8) inches wide moulded architrave, and seven (7) inch wash- board with three (3) inch sub, and two and a half (2^) inch moulding planted on the top ; and will unite with, and form the back member of the architrave. The second and third story architraves will be six and a half (6^) inches wide and moulded. The washboard in these stories will be five and a half (5^) inches wide, with three (3) inch sub, and two (2) inch moulding, all butt to the architrave. All the remaining dressings will be four and a half (4^) inches wide, moulded, and the washboard eight (8) inches plain, with one and a half (1|) inch moulding planted on the top. All win- dows will have panel backs, with elbow jambs paneled and moulded, in keeping with the finish of the rooms.