The center of each Square will admit of Statues, Columns, obelisks, or any other ornaments, such as the different States may choose to erect, to perpetuate not only the memory of such individuals whose Counsels or military achievements were conspicuous in giving liberty and independence to this Country, but also those whose usefulness hath rendered them worthy of general imitation; to invite the youth of succeeding generations to tread in the paths of those Sages or heroes whom their Country has thought proper to celebrate. The situation of these Squares is such that they are the most advantageously and reciprocally seen from each other, and as equally distributed over the whole City district, and connected by spacious Avenues round the grand Federal improvements, and as contiguous to them, and at the same time as equally distant from each other, as circumstances would admit. The settlements round those Squares must soon become connected. This mode of taking possession of, and improving the whole District at first must leave to posterity a grand idea of the patriotic interest which promoted it. Those figures coloured red, are intended for use of all religious denominations, on which they are to erect places of worship, and are proposed to be allotted to them in the manner as those coloured yellow to the different States in the Union; but no burying grounds will be admitted within the limits of the City, an appropriation being intended for that purpose without. N. B. Then a number of Squares or Areas unappropriated, and in situations proper for Colleges and Academies, and of which every Society whose object is national may be accommodated. Every house within the City will stand square on the Streets, and every lot. even those on the divergent Avenues, will run Square with their fronts, which on the most acute angle will not measure less than 56 feet and many will be above 110 feet. Pine Creek, whose water, if necessary, may supply the City, being turned into James White’s branch. Perpendicular height of the } F. I. Pts. source of Tiber Creek, } 236 7 ⁵⁄₈ above the level of the } tide in said Creek. } Perpendicular height of James White’s Spring, being part of Tiber Creek, above the level of the tide in said Creek. This branch of the Tiber, is intended to be conveyed to the President’s house. The water of this Creek is intended to be conveyed on the high ground, where the Congress house stands, and after watering that part of the city, its overplus will fall from under the base of that Edifice, and in a Cascade of 20 feet in height, and 50 in breadth into the reservoir below; thence to run in three fills through the Garden into the grand Canal. The perpendicular height of the ground where the Congress house stands, is above the tide of Tiber Creek, 78 feet.