The Hillsborough Recorder

The State-House—We have pleasure in stating, that the improvements of our capitol are in such forwardness that there is no longer any doubt our legislature will be comfortably accommodated at their approaching session. It is true, that no part of the building will be finished (the time would not admit of it) but it will be placed in such a state as to afford every convenience for transacting the business of the legislature, and give an idea of what it will be when completed.

We will not attempt to give any thing like a correct description of the building, but will just mention, that the senate chamber is in a circular form, to contain two rows of desks and chairs (each member having a desk and chair) the one row elevated a little above the other, with a commodious gallery, supported by twelve pillars of the Doric order. The commons hall is of a semi-circular form to contain four rows of desks and chairs arranged as in the senate, with a gallery and vaulted ceiling, supported by a peristyle of columns of the same order. The Rotunda, surmounted by a dome, which is to be the receptacle of the cenotaph of Washington, occupies the centre of the building. The offices of the clerks of the two houses are on the east side of the rotunda, convenient to the legislative halls, and the conference room is on the opposite side. In the upper story are four committee rooms two on each side of the rotunda.—The main entrances to the building are from the east and west. The grand stair-cases leading to the legislative chambers are at the east end, in the west end are two stair-cases leading to the galleries, and two committee rooms. The rooms on the ground floor formerly occupied by the treasurer, comptroller and secretary, are at present used as work-rooms, and have yet undergone no alteration.

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