13 



deners, from time to time, as occasion may require; and the 

 men who are engaged in the details of gardening during the 

 morning, arc required to serve, if necessary, as an auxiliary 



police in the afternoon and evening, w lien the grounds are 

 thronged with visitors. In the discharge of duty, they are 

 instructed to assist visitors, with such information, advice, 

 and guidance, as may be required, to enable them to sec and 

 to use the Park, to the best advantage ; to direct the course 

 to be taken by carriages; to prevent the interruption of 

 communication by crowds, in any part of the Park; and to 

 guard visitors against such dangers as may occur, from blasts, 

 runaways, pickpockets, going upon weak ice, or the like. 



The rules and regulations established by the Board, and 

 which are directed to be observed by all persons who shall 

 visit the Park, will be found appended to this report. They 

 have been carefully framed, with a view of imposing the 

 least possible restraint upon personal liberty, which is con- 

 sistent with the safety and freedom of others. It has 

 often been a reproach to our country, that collections 

 of works of art, and exhibitions for instruction and amuse- 

 ment, cannot be thrown open to the public without danger 

 of injury. If any ground for such reproach really exists, the 

 Commissioners think it can be removed only by greater 

 liberality, in admitting the people freely, to such establish- 

 ments. By thus teaching them that they are themselves the 

 parties most deeply interested in their preservation, and 

 that it must be the interest of the public, to protect that 

 which is intended for the public advantage. If we seek to 

 win the regard of others, we must show a regard for them 

 ourselves: and if we seek to wean them from debasing pur- 

 suits and brutalizing pleasures, we can only hope to do so, 

 by opening freely to them new sources of rational enjoy- 

 ment. 



There is also another consideration which has had its 



