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CHAP. III. 



Assistants. 



Chief 



Messengers. 



be inspected and signed at the beginning of 

 each month by the senior Officer of the Depart- 

 ment and forthwith transmitted by him, with 

 such observations as he shall think fit, to 

 the Director, or to the Director of the Natural 

 History Departments. 



12. The Chief Messenger at each Museum 

 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 

 improperly admitted into the interior of the 

 Museum. He shall be careful that the fires be 

 extinguished at the proper time ; and for this 

 purpose he shall take care that, immediately 

 after the closing of the Museum, all the rooms 

 in which fires have been lighted shall be 

 visited. He shall also take care that, in the 

 evening, the windows and doors be properly 

 secured and the Museum left in a state of 

 safety. He shall receive the House-keys from 

 persons who have the use of them, when they 

 leave the Museum ; and shall report to the 

 Director, or to the Director of the Natural 

 History Departments, any irregularity in this 

 respect. 



