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3 bone bridging well nailed and be properly prepared for deafening with 1 x 2 inch stripe, and rough 1 inch boards, and filled in between the joists with deafening mortar. The columns supporting the galleries and gardens in the chapel shall be the best quality of iron castings of a neat pattern, 6 inches in diameter, free from all defects, and of an even thickness of not less than 1 inch throughout, supplied with top and bottom plates properly filled to the timbers. Floors All the floors throughout shall be laid with narrow merchantable tongued and grooved flooring, 1/4 inches thick and about 5 inches wide, laid in courses with broken joints, and secret nailed. The narrow to be selected for the gallery floors, the joints of which shall be laid in white lead. Roofs. The roofs shall be sheathed with one (1) inch brands, and covered with good slates put in the best manner with no less than a 4 inch lap. The ridge finished with English Ridge Tiles, and all the chimnies flashed with Copper running up the sides and into the joints of the bricks. All to be made perfectly water tight, and warranted for one year. The sides of the building shall have 8 inch double crop tin hanging gutters, supplied with all necessary tin leaders to conduct the water to the Cistern. All to be put up and secured with proper field fasts and supports. Weather Boarding. All the exterior of the building shall be weather boarded with narrow dressed weather boarding put on the best manner in courses, and will be nailed.
