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pose, as well as in all cases of accident or alarm, Police-lamps CHAP. IV. 

 only shall be used. The route to be taken in an Evening f or security 

 is given in writing to the Inspector. 



6. For the service of lighting the Fires, it may be neces- 

 sary that lights should be brought into the Museum, or body 

 of the House ; but such lights for such use are to be carried 

 in lanterns, to be provided for that purpose ; and lights are 

 never to be brought into the Museum on any other occasion 

 nor in any other manner. 



7. The Bookbinder is ordered to take especial care that 

 the Fires in the Rooms allotted to him are extinguished before 

 the workmen leave the Museum. 



8. The Clerk of the Works is to see that all the Fires in 

 the stoves which are necessary for the day, are lighted, and 

 in a proper state. He is to pass through all the Rooms 

 which those Fires are intended to warm, every Morning, by 

 Eight o'clock ; he is to take care that no fuel is put upon 

 the Fires after Three in the Afternoon, and again to have the 

 Stoves examined before Five in the Afternoon 



9. The several Furnaces, Stoves, Chimneys, and Flues of 

 the Museum Buildings are to be examined, under the 

 superintendence of the Clerk of the Works, once a Month, 

 or oftener if necessary, and he shall periodically report as to 

 their safety to the Trustees. 



10. The several Engines, with all the Hose and Apparatus 

 belonging to them, are to be worked four times a year, namely, 

 on the Tuesday before every ordinary General Meeting of the 

 Trustees. 



11. On these occasions, all the resident Servants of the 

 Establishment, or so many of them as can be spared, are to 

 be employed in such service. 



12. The Engines are to be worked under the personal 

 superintendence of the Principal Officers who are resident 

 in the House, in rotation ; that is to say, the Principal 

 Librarian, and the Senior Officers of Departments : the 

 Engine-maker to be called upon to attend the trial each time, 

 and also to repdrt to the superintending Officer his opinion 

 of the state and condition of the Engines and Apparatus, 



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