Then follows an Act of incorporation given at Hartford, Conn., by the General Assembly in said state, on the first Wednesday of May, 1827. This act provided “that shares be $15 each provided that the number of shares shall not exceed 500 & the capital stock shall not exceed the sum of $7500.” E. N. V. At a meeting of the “Litchfield Female Academy” holden pursuant to adjournment at the West School House in Litchfield June 15^{th} 1827, the following persons were elected trustees. Frederick Wolcott. James Gould. William Buel. Phineas Miner. Seth P. Beers. Truman Smith. John P. Brace. John R. Landon. Daniel Sheldon. Jabez W. Huntington. Frederick Wolcott was appointed President of the board and Truman Smith Secretary and William Buel Treasurer. [Illustration: PL. L.—OLD COSTUME FROM ROXBURY, ABOUT 1825 ] The contract for the building was given to Silvester Spencer, minute directions being given that “it shall be 42 ft. long, 30 ft. wide two stories high with parts 21 ft. long from the top of the sill to the bottom of the Plate the stories of equal length. Sleepers and rafters of good oak and chestnut. The whole frame to be of good and substantial materials. The building (except the front) is to be covered with good pine clapboards. The front to be covered like Doc^t Samuel Buel’s House with 1¼ Tuck pine stuff free from sap and nots and put together with white paint and 4 Pilasters to be a cornice like said Buel’s (excepting eave Troughs) on the side and front with Raking cornice to be a window in the front gable like said Buel’s and covered with a good Green Blind, ... the door to be hung with wrought Iron Hooks & Hinges and furnished with suitable trimmings.... The clapboards to be nailed on with wrought Nails. There is to be 21 windows of 24 Lights part of English brown glass 8 by 10 & One window in the west gable end 20 lights 8 by 10 Glass.... There is to be a Cupola on the front & finished with not less than six posts. With a deck so made as to exclude the water & Sustain a bell with a spire of iron.... The whole building to be painted white with three coats of good paint of white lead and oil except the roof.... The Painting to be done by the first day of May next.” The payments to be “four hundred dolls on or before the 10^{th} day of Sept. next 200 dollars on or before the first day of November next and the balance when the building shall have completed. Voted that Leonard Goodwin be authorized to sell at discretion the building or buildings now occupied by the Litchfield Academy, reserving the use of the same until the first day of May next, and also to remove the same if necessary.