The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . been giventhe credit of saving the day for Raleigh. It is a matter oftradition that the town of Haywood at the junction of theHaw and Deep Rivers failed to secure the Capitol by onlyone vote, but this is not borne out by the records, as thevote shows that the bill appropriating $50,000 for re-build-ing on the old site passed in the House by 73 to 60, and inthe Senate by 35 to 28. The Commissioners selected to have in charge this im-portant work were Henry Seawell, Romulus M. Saunders,Duncan Cameron, William S. Mhoon and Will
The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . been giventhe credit of saving the day for Raleigh. It is a matter oftradition that the town of Haywood at the junction of theHaw and Deep Rivers failed to secure the Capitol by onlyone vote, but this is not borne out by the records, as thevote shows that the bill appropriating $50,000 for re-build-ing on the old site passed in the House by 73 to 60, and inthe Senate by 35 to 28. The Commissioners selected to have in charge this im-portant work were Henry Seawell, Romulus M. Saunders,Duncan Cameron, William S. Mhoon and William were Raleigh men except William S. Mhoon, who wasfrom Bertie, but was at that time residing in Raleigh, asState Treasurer. These Commissioners did the very wisething of spending the whole of the small appropriation onthe foundations. The subsequent General Assemblies had tomake additional appropriations from time to time, until in1840, which year marked the completion of the Capitol, thecost had amounted to the not inconsiderable sum of $530, THE NOETH CAEOLINA BOOKLET. 87 The original Commissioners re-signed in 1836, and weresucceeded by Samuel F. Patterson, Beverley Daniel, CharlesManly, Alfred Jones and Charles L. Hinton. BeverlyDaniel acted as Chairman of the Commission. The work at first was under the supervision of the StateArchitect, William Nichols and I. Town, of ISTew York, butDavid Baton was the draughtsman and may be consideredthe real architect of the noble structure. Stone cutters andmasons were brought from Scotland to work upon the build-ing, and some of Raleighs most substantial and highly es-teemed citizens of to-day are descendants of those who camefrom over the waters for that purpose. The stone was takenfrom a granite quarry southeast of the Capitol, and aboutone mile distant. The stone was conveyed from the quarryto the workmen engaged in the erection of the building bymeans of a railroad with horse power. This, the first experi-men
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