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amination is reported to the first garden committee which may meet after it 

 has taken place. 



18. If a man does not pass his examination within three years after his ad- 

 mission into the garden, he is liable to be dismissed by the garden committee. 



19. The time-bell to summon the men to work is rung by the man on duty 

 in the hot-house department, in the morning at daylight in winter, and at six 

 o'clock in summer, except on mowing mornings, when it is rung at five 

 o'clock ; it is rung again at eight for breakfast, and at half-past eight for return 

 to work ; at twelve for dinner, and one for return to work ; and in the evening, 

 for quitting work for the day, at dusk in winter, or six o'clock in summer, the 

 time being regulated by Chiswick church clock. 



20. All the men employed in the garden enter at the National School gate, 

 where a person is stationed with a book, in which the names of those entering 

 are fairly written by themselves : and he continues to receive the names until 

 five minutes after the hour in the morning at which the bell for summoning to 

 work shall have ceased to ring ; after which time no entry is made. Those 

 who arrive after the expiration of the five minutes, have their names inserted 

 in a separate book, and are fined sixpence each, or in case of their not pre- 

 senting themselves until breakfast time, are then fined one shilling each. A 

 weekly return of the names, and days on which men are late in the morning, 

 is made by the clerk from this book, which return is regularly entered in a 

 register laid before the garden committee at each meeting. 



21. It is the duty of the under gardener in the hot-house department, to 

 furnish the person who attends to the National School gate. 



22. A fine of sixpence for each square of broken glass is regularly levied 

 upon breakers of glass through carelessness, and with that view each under 

 gardener reports weekly, in writing, to the gardener, what glass in his de- 

 partment requires repair; whereupon the gardener examines such report, and 

 having ascertained what fines are to be levied for the breakage, and entered 

 them in the fine-book, countersigns the report, and gives it to the carpenter, 

 who is to consider it an order for the repair of the breakage. The carpenter 

 preserves these orders, and lays them before every garden committee, when an 

 abstract of them is regularly entered in the minutes. The under gardener's 

 reports express the number and size of the squares broken, and the houses or 

 other buildings to which they belong; and the carpenter is not allowed, on 

 any pretence, to make good any broken squares which be does not find in 

 such reports. 



23. All fines levied on the men under the foregoing regulations' are entered 

 in a book, and the money accumulating from such fines is expended in the 

 purchase of books for the use of the men. 



24. All messages to a distance are performed by messengers taken from 

 the three departments of the garden alternately, their names being entered in 

 a book kept for the purpose. Messages to short distances are considered to 

 be within the province of the man on duty in the hot-house department. 



25. No persons can be admitted into the garden on Sundays, on any 

 pretence whatever, except by the personal introduction of the gardener or 

 under gardeners, who can give permission to the men to see their friends ; 

 care being taken that this permission is granted sparingly, and only on behalf 

 of persons of the same class as the men themselves. The names of all persons 

 so admitted are written in a book kept at the gate. 



26. No person, however, can be admitted into the garden on a Sunday, 

 imder the previous regulation, until after the hour of Divine service in the 

 morning. 



27. If a man is unable to come to his work, his wages are stopped for two 

 days; if he continues ill, half-pay is issued to him till the next meeting of the 

 committee, when his case is reported, together with a statement from the 

 Society's medical adviser, as to the nature of his complaint ; whereupon the 

 Committee order the whole or any part of his pay to be given to him, or re- 

 move him from the Society's service, according to the circumstances of the case. 



