The Elba Room is on the ground floor of the building: the room, that was home to the Inland Revenue Offices until a few years ago and that is now a conference room, was used as the Room for public payment in the eighteenth century, also known as the cashiers room, as can be seen in the etching Il Negoziante in Banco by A. Piemontesi (1793) (2, separate details provided), a print belonging to the Chamber and placed in the President’s Room.
At the end of the eighteenth century, in fact, scribes, chamberlains, bailiffs and busboys worked here, who dealt with currency exchange and aided commercial negotiations: with a bit of imagination it is still possible to see them counting coins and bills of exchange.