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- Notes - The first floor accommodated the mayor''s quarters, a prison cell and an office for the free distribution of vaccine. On the second floor were a document room, a ballroom, a meeting room for the municipal board and a chapel. During the American regime, the civil governors and the commissioners occupied this building. The "Casas Consistoriales de Cabildo", familiarly called the Ayuntamiento was completed in 1738, three years after it was started. Designed by Don Antonio Gonzales de Quijano, it was the old Manila''s city hall. The first floor accommodated the mayor''s quarters, a prison and an office for the free distribution of vaccine (after 1805). In the second floor were found a documetn room which kept the Royal Standard, a ballroom, a meeting room for the municipal board and a chapel for the death convicts. From the balcony at the left of the ayuntamiento, public proclamations were made. The civil governors and the commissioners occupied the historic edifice during the American regime.
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