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| architect          = [[Xulian Morales]] (Burgesses' Hall)<br>[[Marco Esteves]] (Prefect's Hall; Magistrates' Hall)
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===Halls of the legislature===
===Halls of the legislature===
[[File:Abbot%27s_Guide_to_Ottawa_Page26.png|thumb|left|200px|The original Burgesses' Hall in 1900.]]
The reason for the mandate on there being three buildings was to prevent the overly crowded appearance that the original legislative palace had, and to further entice people to send submissions to the design competition that was set up. The winning designs were selected in 1849 with the winning architects being [[Ernesto Benites]] for the Burgesses' Hall, [[Marco Esteves]] for the Prefect's Hall, and [[Luis Rodrigues]] for the Magistrates' Hall; the three were each awarded 250 [[Rumian real|reals]] and construction on the Burgesses' Hall began in 1851, the Prefect's Hall in 1853, and the Magistrates' Hall in 1854; [[Luciano II of Pelaxia|King Luciano II]] was given the honour of laying the {{wp|cornerstone}} of the Burgesses' Hall, but it was not until 1858 when the [[Foral Assembly]], which had replaced the Supreme Courts after the viceroyalty became independent in 1852, began to hold sessions in the building for the first time with [[Maximilian I of Argyrea|Emperor Maximilian I]] attending the building's grand opening. The first session was mostly a ceremony and a {{wp|luncheon}} to celebrate the occasion.
The Magistrates' Hall was the second to be completed, it officially opening its doors in 1859; coincidentally, it lined up with the proclamation of the [[Imperial elections in Castadilla|election]] of [[Augustine I of Delepasia|Augustine de Alma]] as [[Delepasian Emperor|emperor]]. The Prefect's Hall was the final building to be completed, it officially opening its doors in 1860. The opening of the Prefect's Hall was marked by a public celebration on the Capitolium in honour of the final building on the hill being completed and opened, thus ending the more than ten-year long process of the demolition of the old legislative palace and the subsequent construction of the new buildings. The completion of the project also signified the so-called "true beginning" of the [[Delepasian Confederation]] as an independent confederation as well as the stabilisation of the confederation after several years of post-independence instability brought upon by the end of the Pelaxian monarchy and the collapse of the [[Delepasian Kingdom]].
As the Delepasian Confederation grew, the buildings of the Capitolium were expanded to handle the increased capacity in both the Foral Assembly and the expanding government bureaucracy needed to handle the admission of new member states into the confederation. In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Delepasian independence, a fountain was erected in front of the Burgesses' Hall lined with statuettes depicting each of the states of the confederation, and the clock tower of Burgesses' Hall was decorated with banners coloured in one of Delepasia's three national colours, those being {{wp|blue}}, {{wp|white}}, and {{wp|purple}}, and the clock itself received a facelift with the hands and numerals being given gold-coloured accents to make them stand out better.


===Burgesses' Hall fire, renovations, and modern history===
===Burgesses' Hall fire, renovations, and modern history===