The ground floor is a round room, which serves as the registrar's office.

On the first story is a chapel where a single priest says mass for all; and the observatory, where a single attendant keeps watch over all the doors of all the galleries at the same time.

Each building is termed a "division." The courtyards are intersected by high walls into a multitude of little oblong walks.
As each Representative descended from the vehicle he was conducted into the rotunda where the registry office was situated.

There his name was taken down, and in exchange for his name he was assigned a number.
Whether the prisoner be a thief or a legislator, such is always the rule in this prison; the _coup d'etat_ reduced all to a footing of equality.
As soon as a Representative was registered and numbered, he was ordered to "file off." They said to him, "Go upstairs," or "Go on;" and they announced him at the end of the corridor to which he was allotted by calling out, "Receive number So-and-So." The jailer in that particular corridor answered, "Send him on." The prisoner mounted alone, went straight on, and on his arrival found the jailer standing near an open door.

The jailer said, "Here it is, sir." The prisoner entered, the jailer shut the door, and they passed on to another.
The _coup d'etat_ acted in a very different manner towards the various Representatives.