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CHAP. III. 



Assistants. 



1 



Chief 

 Messenger. 



diate direction of the Senior Officer of the 

 Department in which they are employed, shall 

 not absent themselves from the Museum without 

 leave from him first obtained. Every Assistant 

 shall keep a Diary, wherein he shall daily enter 

 the business on which he is engaged, especially 

 recording his absence from the Museum during 

 any part of the day. All such Diaries shall be 

 inspected and signed on the first day of every 

 month by the Senior Officer of the Department, 

 and forthwith transmitted by him, with such 

 observations as he shall think fit, to the Principal 

 Librarian. 



14. The Chief Messenger shall superintend 

 the Attendants and Servants ; he shall keep a 

 daily Eegister of their attendance, and report to 

 the proper Officer every instance of negligence 

 or misbehaviour. He shall keep an account as 

 well of Letters and Parcels received and delivered, 

 as of the charges on the same, and of such other 

 expenses as are usually included in a petty cash 

 account. He shall see that no persons be im- 

 properly admitted into the interior of the 

 Museum, and that Visitors be conducted by 

 some fit person to the Department for which 

 they inquire. He shall be careful that the fires 

 be extinguished at the proper time ; and for this 

 purpose he shall, immediately after the closing 

 of the Museum, visit all the rooms in which 

 fires have been lighted. He shall also take care 

 that, in the evening, the windows and doors be 



