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chap. in. not absent themselves from the Museum with- 



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out leave from him first obtained. Every Assist- 

 ant, as well as the Clerk of the Eeading Room, 

 shall keep a Diary, wherein he shall daily enter 

 the business on which he is engaged, specially 

 recording his absence from the Museum during 

 any part of the day. All such Diaries shall be 

 inspected and signed on the Thursday preceding 

 the second Saturday 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, 

 chief 13. The Chief Messenger shall superintend 



& ' the Attendants and Servants ; he shall keep a 

 daily Register 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 

 properly secured, and the Museum left in a state 



