Capt. Clark, Sixth Veteran Reserve, was wounded while attempting to take a barn near Rock Creek.

Lt. H. M. Nevius, 25 N. Y. Cavalry, lost his arm July 11th, near the McChesney Spring.

The following killed in action on July 11 and 12, 1864, are buried in Battle Ground Cemetery, near Brightwood.

ORIGIN OF THE BUILDING REGULATIONS.

BY APPLETON P. CLARK, JR.

(Read before the Society May 7, 1900.)

On October 17, 1791, the President of the United States, George Washington, promulgated the terms and conditions for regulating the materials and manner of the buildings and improvements on the lots in the City of Washington, as follows:

Ist. That the outer nd party walls of all houses within the said city, shall be built of brick or stone.

2d. That all buil gs on the street shall be parallel thereto, and may be..dvanced to the line of the streets, or withdrawn therefrom, at the pleasure of the improver; but where any such building is about to be erected, neither the foundation or the party wall shall be begun without first. applying to the person or persons appointed by the commissioners to superintend the buildings within the city, who will ascertain the lines of the walls to correspond with these regulations.

3d. The wall of no house to be higher than forty feet to the roof, in any part of the City; nor shall any be lower than thirty-five feet on any of the avenues.

4th. That the person or persons appointed by the commissioners to superintend the buildings, may enter on the land of any person to set out the foundation and regulate the walls to be built between party and party, as to the breadth and thickness thereof; which foundation shall be laid equally upon the lands of the persons between whom such party walls are to be built, and shall be of the breadth and thickness determined by such person proper; and the

first builder shall be reimbursed one moiety of the charge of such party wall, or so much thereof as the next builder shall have occasion to make use of, before such next builder shall any ways use or break into the wall. The charge or value thereof, to be set by the person or persons so appointed by the Commissioners.

5th. As temporary conveniences will be proper, for lodging workmen, and securing materials for building, it is to be understood that such may be erected, with the approbation of the commissioners; but they may be removed or discontinued by the special order of the commissioners. 6th. The way into the squares, being designed, in a special manner, for the common us and convenience of the occupiers of the respective square, the property in the same is reserved to the public, so tha there may be an immediate interference on any abuse any individual, to the nuisance or obstruction of others. The proprietors of the lots adjoining the entrance into the squares, on arching over the entrance and fixing gates in the manner the commissioners shall approve, shall be entitled to divide the space over the arching, and build it up with the range of that line of the square.

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7th. No vaults shall be permitted under the streets, nor any encroachments on the footway above, by steps, stoops, porches, cellar doors, windows, ditches, or leaning walls; nor shall there be any projection over the street, other than the eaves of the house, without the consent of the commissioners.

8th. These regulations are the terms and conditions. under and upon which conveyances are to be made, according to the deeds in trust of the land within the city. GEORGE WASHINGTON.

The questions we shall try to answer are, who was the author of these regulations and whence came the ideas.

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This paper, referred to above. follows this letter in the colection in the Department of State, and is known as **Questions and Answers in regard to the Federal City." It is a series of questions written by Washington, the answers are by Jefferson, and among them are several in relation to regulations for private buildings. It was pre