purchased. The Library Committee was given the "privilege of using a portion of the upper room required for keeping books, said Committee to put up a door and steps in the rear at their own expense."(44) Elisha J. Hall and Mr. Prettyman were directed to procure twelve double seats and desks while Enoch B. Hutton was to dispose of the old ones (1853). Likewise the Principal was authorized to purchase coal stoves and to dispose of the old stoves (1853).

The Completion of the Second Story as a Meeting Hall
After a Committee was formed to consider any school repairs, it was decided that a new roof would be put on the Academy and that the upper room would be altered for use as a hail and lecture room (1855). A plaque on the Academy building states that the Mutual Fire Insurance Company completed the second story of the building in 1848, however, the Minutes of the Brookeville Academy clearly mention that the appropriation was received in 1857 and that the alterations to the Academy were conducted in 1858.

The alterations and improvements made to the upper room were a new floor, windows and frames renewed or repaired, ceiling raised and arches, a new outside entry to the upper room with a communication to the entrance from the back door of the Academy, removal of the upper and lower inside stairway, and suitable furniture and

44 "Board Meeting dated February 17, 1853," Brookeville Academy Minute Books, 2 Vols., 1822-1934, MS.149, Manuscripts Division, Maryland Historical Society Library.