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Projections from walls of buildings over public ways.

And with regard to all buildings hereafter to be built orrebuilt, in reference to projections from the walls of suchbuildings, including steps, cellar-doors, and area inclosures,the walls of all such buildings must be set back, so that allprojections therefrom, and also all steps, cellar-doors, andarea inclosures, shall only overhang or occupy the ground ofthe owner of such building, without overhanging or encroach-ing upon any public way.

Projected buildings beyond the general line of buildings,and from other external walls.

And with regard to buildings already built, or hereafterto be rebuilt, as to bow windows or other projections ofany kind,

Such projections must neither be built with nor be addedto any building on any face of an external wall thereof, soas to extend beyond the general line of the fronts of thehouses (which general line may be determined by the sur-veyor) except so far as is herein before provided with regardto porticos projected over public ways ; and with regard toprojections from face-walls and shop-fronts, not so as to over-hang the ground belonging to any other owner, nor so as toobstruct the light and air, or be otherwise injurious to theowners or occupiers of the buildings adjoining thereto on anyside thereof.

Projections from insulated buildings.

Provided always, with regard to any insulated buildings,that if the projection be at the least 8 feet from any publicway, and if they be at least 20 feet from any other buildingnot in the same occupation, then such projections are exceptedfrom the rules and directions of this act.

Wooden shop-fronts and shutters.

And with regard to shop-fronts and their entablatures,their shutters, and pilasters and stall-boards made of wood,

If the street or alley in which such front is situate, be ofless width than 30 feet, then no part of such shop-front mustbe higher in any part thereof than 15 feet; nor must anypart, except the cornice, project from the face of a wall,whether there be an area or not, more than 5 inches ; normust the cornice project therefrom more than 13 inches.

If the street or alley be of a greater width than 30 feet,then no part of such shop-front, except the cornice, mustproject from the face of a wall, whether there be an area ornot, more than 10 inches ; nor must the cornice projecttherefrom more than 18 inches.

And the width of such street or alley must be ascertainedby measuring the same, as directed by the act.

And the woodwork of any shop-front must not be fixednearer than four and a half inches to the centre line of aparty wall.

And with regard to such wood-work, if it be put up atsuch distance of four and a half inches, then a pier or corbelbuilt of stone or of brick, or other incombustible material,and of the width of four and a half inches at the least, mustbe fixed in the line of the party wall, so as to be as high assuch wood-work, and so as to project one inch at the leastin front of the face thereof.

And the height of every shop-front must be ascertainedby measuring from the level of the public foot pavement infront of the building.

And every sign or notice-board fixed against or upon anypart of any house or other building standing close to anypublic way, must be so fixed that the top shall be within18 feet at the most above the level of such public way.

Decoration op the Scenery op a Theatre, is therepresentation of the subject by which the scenes arecharged.

The ancients used two kinds of decoration in theirthe one called Versailles, with three sides or faces* _were turned successively to the spectators ; the other,ductiles, showing a new decoration, by drawing or 8another before it. . a \[n 0 ^

The latter kind is still in use, and the change 18 ^ to

made in an instant; whereas the ancients were oW a ^draw a curtain whenever a change of decoratirequired. . i en esS

DECORUM, or Decor, in architecture, is the sUli \ e ieobof a building, and the several parts and ornaments ^g,to the station and occasion. “It consists,” says fl , or k,(book i. chap. 2.), “ in the proper appearance of a r ts.and its being compounded of approved and authorize Y ca ]lThis has regard, either to station, which the ^"^gpjpl ® 3thematismos, custom, or nature. To station, when jjewhich are erected to Jove the Thunderer, the h /tothe* ir ’sun, or the moon, are built uncovered and exposed to ^ ^ ef .because the influences and effects of those deities 0 jg$ceived in the open air ; when to Minerva, Mars,

Doric temples are built; for, on account of the attr ’ rethese deities, edifices constructed without delicacy a 0 f tb esuitable. To Venus, Flora, Proserpine, and the.nymp ; e tyifountains, the Corinthian kind are erected with P _^ aC ef u "for by reason of the delicacy of those goddesses, a d a ®

gay manner, with foliage and ornamented volutes, g , s uc**decorum to the work. To Juno, Diana, Bacchus, ^ ^ pos 1 'other deities, Ionic temples are constructed, as h 0 * g° er ity 0tion between the two; for being tempered of the 8 bec 0 iii 8the Doric , and the tenderness of the Corinthian,most suitable. Decor, with regard to custom, J .- ce ot,when the internal parts of edifices being ®ag nl tbe jpt 6 'accesses are also made suitable and elegant: f ° r , 1 ^ jgno^rior parts be elegant, and the approaches mean a r yed ’it will not have decor. So, likewise, if dentils o®^ g 0 fthe cornice of the Doric epistylium, or in the a - g tyli ul11 . icapital, or if triglyphs be represented in the e P^. ' ne kj 9 .Ionic columns, transferring the characteristics c(Jgto 0 aof work to another; it offends the eye, becauseestablished a different order of things. _ . a jj te&V'f

“ Decor, with regard to nature, consists m 0 fbeing placed in a salutary situation, with fount® • t j, e toin the places where the fane is built; but espec ,apies of ASsculapius, of Health, and such ^ elt ' be ’ r ec°* e J tohealing influences numbers of sick appear toFor the diseased bodies being removed from an ( j ]e toa healthy situation, and the salutiferous water re( j, 5/ tf ;lltains being administered, they are soon rest ^ t i, e pla c , emeans it will happen, that the natural effects jifin’^goincrease the received opinion of the power of bggrV ed, ;

“ Decor, with regard to nature, is also o th 5 s f6 -chambers and libraries receive their light . pi^jjbaths, and winter apartments, from the'Ljyligb 4 ’ i e tedgalleries, and such apartments as require a s ® -j g ieo jsthe north ; because that region of the ® iea J e t j ie sun, ^neither lighter nor darker by the course o ^

equal and immutable the whole day.” t te®P^ e ’DEDICATION, the act of consecrating a

statue, palace, &c., to the honour of some )’

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thing ; that is, the manner wherein the 0