7. Compositors are not to leave either type or furniture on the stone.

8. A compositor is not to detain an imposing-stone longer than the nature

of the business may require.

9. Head-lines, or other useful materials, on galleys, used during the

course of a work, to be cleared away as soon as the work is finished.

10. When a work is done, the compositor, before beginning another work,

unless otherwise directed, is to clear away the forms, taking from them

the head-lines, white-lines, and odd sorts, as well as the leads and

reglets; which, with the furniture of each sheet, and the matter properly

tied up for papering, are to be given to the foreman.

11. Types dropped on the floor to be picked up at once. Matter broken by

accident to be cleared away on the same day.

12. The saw, saw-block, bowl, sponge, letter-brush, shears, bellows, &c.,

to be returned to their respective places as soon as done with.

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