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The residential buildings from those of the poorest to the palaces of the kings, were also constructed from time immemorial of the perishable material. ‘The custom has now passed into a law, that no one shall have the power of erecting buildings of stone or brick, except it be the king himself, or unless the edifices be of a purely religious character.’²