needed (1834).(42) The Building Committee was authorized to have a door m.ade in the South end and have a window placed where the back door now is; have the outside of the lower story finished in the same manner as the upper story; furnish the upper story with desks and benches; repair the lower story as needed; construct a belfry; have a staircase made from the second floor to the garret similar that [one] from the first to the second floor; and have pegs fastened in the wall in the upper room to hang hats on similar to those in the lower story.(43)

Additionally, the Treasurer recorded that a bell was purchased from Edward Stabler for $6.00, wire for the bell was purchased for 36 cents, William Hill provided Academy with furniture at a cost of $2.06, and Mrs. Hill was paid for curtains. Further information was not recorded in the account books.

A door was placed at the head of the stairs in 1837 according to the Minutes. Elisha J. Hall, Principal, was permitted to make a partition across the lower room of the Academy for a laboratory (1837) and a proposal for a pump was put on hold due to the low state of funds in the Academy (1838). General repair work occurred for the remainder of the 1840s. James Dwyer was paid $4.00 for plastering and whitewashing the Academy (1840), Daniel Budd was paid for 2 days labor at the same time, John McCauley was paid for repairing the stove (1841), and a blackboard was put in the Academy (1840). In 1848 the Treasurer, Remus Riggs, recorded that blinds were

42 "Board Meeting dated September 9, 1834," Brookeville Academy Minute Books, 2 Vols., 1822-1934, MS.149, Manuscripts Division, Maryland Historical Society Library.

43 "Board Meeting dated October 4, 1834," Brookeville Academy Minute Books, 2 Vols., 1822-1934, MS.149, Manuscripts Division, Maryland Historical Society Library.