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Two public staircases lead to the principal floor upon which are placed the Large Court, the Small Court-460 the Library, Judges' Rooms, Bar Robing-Room, and rooms for Solicitors, Witnesses, and for consultation.
In a Mezzanine over the principal floor the Attorney-General and Crown Solicitor and their Clerks are accommodated; this floor being about 20 feet high leaves a means of additional light for the Courts and Library available, and affords opportunities for ventilation.
The photographs which accompanied your letter
have been of great use in leading us to a conclusion as to the general exterior treatment of the buildings. The existing Civil buildings are mostly of four or more storeys in height, each storey being about 20 feet from floor to floor and marked externally by a separate "Order". As
it is not necessary or desirable that the Law Courts should be of so high an elevation as the neighbouring buildings, and as it is desirable that they should be invested with the character of a Public building, an endeavour has been made to give them the fitting dignity by the use of a larger treatment of the facades, i.e. by the employment of a *colossal" order embracing the two storeys and the crowning of the whole by a dome. The perspective sketch will show that this architectural treatment gives impor- tance to a building less in height than its neighbours, and reduces by comparison, the scale of their various features.
If the general principle shown by these sketches should commend itself to these who have the consideration
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