Common council may include additional portion of western district. Certain district exempted from requirement to erect brick or stone buildings. Common council one hundred feet southerly from the southerly side of Hamilton avenue; thence northwesterly and parallel with Hamilton avenue and one hundred feet southerly therefrom to a point distant one hundred feet easterly from the easterly side of Columbia street; thence southerly and parallel with Columbia street and one hundred feet easterly therefrom to a point distant one hundred feet southerly from the southerly side of Nelson street; thence westerly and parallel with Nelson street and one hundred feet southerly therefrom in a straight line to a point distant one hundred feet easterly from the easterly side of Richard street; thence southerly and parallel with Richard street and one hundred feet easterly therefrom to a point distant one hundred feet southerly from the southerly side of King street; thence westerly and parallel with King street and one hundred feet southerly therefrom to the East river, and thence along the easterly shore of the East river to the point or place of beginning at the said northwest corner of the United States navy yard; and also extending from the centre of Washington avenue along both sides of Fulton avenue, one hundred feet on each side, to the easterly side of Bedford avenue, and such further portion of the western district of said city as the common council of the city of Brooklyn by ordinance may from time to time, as hereinafter provided, include therein: provided, however, that the owners of the lands and premises within the district bounded by Bridge, Tillary, Navy and Concord streets, shall not be required to erect thereon buildings of brick or stone. 10. The common council of the city of Brooklyn may from time to time, by ordinance, designate and extend the limits in said city of such extent, metes and bounds as they may deem proper, within which all buildings to be thereafter erected shall be built of brick or stone or materials other than wood, and in such manner as they may determine and specify in such ordinance. Said ordinance shall be published in the corporation of brick or newspapers at least once a week for the space of three calendar months after the same shall have been passed, and before it shall take effect as law. may designate and extend limits within which buildings stone are required to be constructed. Buildings § 11. All buildings hereafter erected within said such limits structed stone or limits, or as the same may be extended, shall be erected, within constructed or built of no other material than brick, to be constone or iron. All dwelling houses, stores, storehouses, of brick, and all other buildings hereafter to be erected, constructed or built within the said limits, or as the same may Buildings be extended, shall have front and rear walls and side front and walls on both sides, whether such side walls be outside side walls. or party walls, and shall be started and built upon foun dations of stone or brick. iron. to have rear and Foundations to be stone or brick. Manner of ing buildthan thirty construc ings, more feet in § 12. Every such dwelling house, store, storehouse or other building, more than thirty feet in width, shall be built in such manner, that all the floors and roof thereof throughout their whole extent, shall be supported by, and rest upon one or more partition wall or walls of brick or stone not less than eight inches thick, running from front to rear, or upon proper or sufficient girders, sustained by proper and sufficient posts, pillars or columns of iron, brick or stone, and so that through the whole extent of such floor and roof and each of them, the said walls shall not be distant from each other, or from such immediate support or supports of brick, stone or iron, more than thirty feet; but such intermediate support or supports may be wooden posts or pillars of such quality, and dimensions as shall be approved by the said superintendent of buildings; and all such partition walls which shall exceed thirty-five feet in height from the level of the sidewalk to the peak or highest part thereof, shall not be less than twelve inches thick; but in case said floors or any of them throughout their whole extent be supported upon iron beams, or girders of proper size and strength resting upon the outer walls of such store, storehouse or other building, and distant from each other not more than fifteen feet, then such store, storehouse or other building may be so erected as that in the story or stories beneath each floor so supported, the lateral walls thereof may be distant from each other, or from a partition wall or walls, or intermediate supports as aforesaid, a distance of not more than forty feet. The provisions of this section shall not Provisions apply to churches, libraries, armories, theatres and other apply to buildings devoted wholly to public assemblies, provid- churches, ed, however, all such buildings hereafter erected in said etc. not to theatres, of walls of brick or stone buildings. Certain buildings to have eight inch city, shall be subject to the approval of the superintendent of buildings. 'Thickness § 13. All walls, whether party or otherwise, of all brick or stone buildings, hereafter erected or built in the western district of the city of Brooklyn, shall not be less than twelve inches thick from the foundation or starting place to the peak or highest point thereof; but any building not exceeding twenty-two feet in width, nor side walls. forty-five feet in depth, may be built above the foundation or cellar walls with eight inch side walls, which walls shall not be over thirty-five feet in height from the level of the sidewalk to the peak or highest point thereof; but such building shall not be used as a storehouse or manufactory of any kind or description whatsoever; nor for the purpose of storing any kind of heavy goods, and the side walls of any such building may be built thirty-eight feet high from the level of the sidewalk to the peak or highest point thereof, if the walls of the first story above the level of the sidewalk shall be built of a thickness of at least twelve inches from the commencement of the foundation to the extreme height of the story above the level of the sidewalk; but such building shall not be used for the purpose of any manufactory of any description whatever, or for a storehouse, or for the purpose of storing of any kind of heavy Thickness goods. All walls required by law to be eight inches foundation thick, the foundation thereof shall not be less than twelve inches thick, if brick; if stone, not less than eighteen inches thick; all walls required by law to be twelve inches thick, the foundation thereof shall not be less than sixteen inches thick, if brick; if stone, not less than eighteen inches thick; all foundations shall be started not less than two feet below the grade of the curb and carried up to the first tier of beams. of certain walls. Founda tions, how started, ete. Discharging or arched pieces in in chim to be con § 14. All discharging or arched pieces used in the chimneys of any dwelling, store, storehouse or other building, hereafter erected or built in the western disneys; how trict of the city of Brooklyn, shall recede from any flue in such chimney at least four inches, and no such chimney shall be started or built upon the floor or beams of such dwelling, storehouses or other building, but shall be started at the foundation; and all such chimneys and structed. be sup arches. concern struction flues shall have the joints struck smooth and plastered Hearths to on the inside, all hearths shall be supported by arches ported by of brick or stone, and no chimney of any building now erected, or hereafter to be erected within the western district of the city of Brooklyn, shall be cut off to be Provisions supported in any manner whatever, provided that such ing conchimney must be supported by an additional wall of of chimfour inches, built on the inner side of said wall; but the neys. chimneys of any building erected with twelve inch walls may be started above the foundation of such building, provided the same are started from, and wholly rest upon a base formed by racking out such twelve inch wall with brick or stone to an additional width of four Dangerous inches. All chimneys projecting more than four inches to be refrom the inner side of said walls, shall be started from paired or the bottom of the foundation; and any chimney or down. chimneys within said western district of the city of Brooklyn, which shall be declared dangerous by the superintendent of buildings, shall be repaired or taken down. chimneys taken gutters or secured § 15. All wooden or timber gutters or cornices of any Wooden building, store, storehouse, or other building hereafter cornices to built or erected within the western district of said city, be secure shall be firmly secured by irons, which shall not be more than seven and a half feet apart from each other; and on all such gutters, not exceeding twelve inches in width, the said irons shall be at least two inches in width, and one-half of an inch thick, and on all such gutters exceeding twelve inches in width, the said irons shall be at least two and one-half inches in width and five-eighths of an inch thick, and the said irons, except those at the end of the cornice or gutter, shall be fastened or secured to the floor or roof beam, and the end. iron shall be fastened in the side walls; provided, how- Bracketed ever, it may be lawful to erect bracketed gutters built how built. in the wall and well secured to wall strips, built in the walls at least every two feet. etc.; how $16. All plate irons shall be built into the side or Plate irons, party walls, and the iron arches used to secure the plate secured pieces shall be at least two inches wide and one-half of and built. an inch thick; the anchors at the end of every plate piece shall be worked or built into the side or party walls of the building, and the said anchors shall turn of stone or ces Projection down at least four inches. No stone or iron cornice or iron corni- cornices shall project more than the thickness of the wall on which it rests, and the stone shall run through said wall, or in any case the greatest weight of stone or iron, or other material shall be on the inside of said line of said wall or walls; all the mortar shall be made with how made. clear sand, and with lime or cement in proper proportions; and in no case shall any loam or earthy matter be put in any mortar to be used in the erection of the brick, stone or foundation walls of any building or buildings. Mortar; Scuttle frames how made. window shutters. §17. All scuttle frames and scuttle doors, on every and doors; brick or stone dwelling, store, storehouse, or other building, hereafter to be erected or built within the fire limits aforesaid, or as the same may be extended, shall be made of or covered with copper, zinc, tin or iron, Fire proof and every window and entrance above the first story, in the rear of every storehouse over thirty feet in height to the peak or highest part thereof, from the level of the sidewalks, shall have shutters and doors thereon made of copper or iron, or covered with copper, tin, or other fire proof materials, to be approved of by the superintles in the tendent of buildings. Every store, storehouse, or other building hereafter erected or built as aforesaid, shall have a scuttle or place of egress in the roof thereof, of and ladders proper size, and shall have ladders or stairways leading to the same, and all such scuttles and stairways or ladders leading to the roof shall be kept in readiness for use at all times. Buildings have scut roofs. Stairways leading thereto. Planking or sheathing of roofs of brick or stone buildings. Roofing of same, and of dormer windows, with fire 18. The planking or sheathing of the roof of every brick or stone dwelling, store, storehouse, or other building so erected or built as aforesaid, shall in no case be extended across the party or side walls thereof; and every such dwelling, store, storehouse, or other building, and the top and sides of dormer windows thereon, shall be roofed and covered with slate, iron, copper, tin, zinc, or other fire proof materials, to be approved of by the superintendent of buildings, and shall be equally capable of withstanding the influence of fire. § 19. All beams and other timbers in the party or be separate other walls of every dwelling, store, storehouse, or bers enter- other building hereafter built or erected of brick or proot ma. terials. Beams in walls to from tim |