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REGULATIONS FOR THE 



CHAPTER IV. 



Concerning the Security of the Museum. 

 chap. iv. 1. The Museum shall at no time whatever 



Precautions 



against Fire be left without one, at least, of the resident Officers 



and other 



Accidents, within the same, or the precincts thereof, that 

 proper orders may be given, and due care taken 

 for its preservation in case of fire or any other 

 accident which may endanger the building or its 

 contents. And in order to provide more effectually 

 for the observance of this regulation, each resident 

 Officer of the Establishment in weekly rotation, 

 shall consider himself responsible for the care of 

 the Museum buildings; and shall not leave the 

 Museum between the hours of Ten o'clock in the 

 evening, and Eight o'clock in the morning, without 

 having first procured some other of the resident 

 officers to supply his place. In case of any accident, 

 the Principal Librarian, or, in his absence, the 

 next officer in seniority who shall be in the Museum, 

 shall give such orders as in his judgment will best 

 conduce to the safety and preservation of the same. 



2. Each of the Officers shall pay particular 

 attention to the security of his Department ; and 

 for this purpose he shall take care that, after the 

 Visitors leave the House, the windows and doors 

 be properly secured, and that the fires in the 

 stoves be left in such a state that no danger may 

 arise therefrom. The Messenger and his Assistant 

 shall likewise, under the direction of the Principal 



