. Re-dedication of the Old State House, Boston, July 11th, 1882 . APPENDIX F. 151 rooms for Grand and Petit Juries. The cost of this building was$98, Snow, in his admirable history of Boston, in 1824 gives theannexed view of the Stone Court House, which he tried to per-suade the public to call Johnson Hall. He writes : The lowerstory of the centre is improved by the Register of Deeds andClerk of the C. C. P. ; the second story by the Couuty Courts, andthe upper bj the Common Council of the city. The mayor andaldermens room is in the upper stoi-y of the west wiug; underthat are the offic

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. Re-dedication of the Old State House, Boston, July 11th, 1882 . APPENDIX F. 151 rooms for Grand and Petit Juries. The cost of this building was$98, Snow, in his admirable history of Boston, in 1824 gives theannexed view of the Stone Court House, which he tried to per-suade the public to call Johnson Hall. He writes : The lowerstory of the centre is improved by the Register of Deeds andClerk of the C. C. P. ; the second story by the Couuty Courts, andthe upper bj the Common Council of the city. The mayor andaldermens room is in the upper stoi-y of the west wiug; underthat are the offices of the Auditor and City Marshal, and on thelower floor the Probate Office. In the eastern wing are the officesof the Clerk of the S. J. court rooms, for the judges and for thejuries, and one occupied by the Law Library. As already noted, the Old State House was occupied as a CityHall, September 17, 1830, and so remained for ten years. In the City Council appropriated $60,000 for the purchaseof land in Court square and ou School street, and $500 as apre

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