1. Visitors and others will be permitted to visit the Institution on any day, except Sunday, between the hours of 10 A. M. and 3 P. M.
2. No visitor shall be admitted within the wards occupied by the patients, without express permission from the Superintendent, or Assistant Physician. And especial care must be taken that no amount of visiting is permitted in the wards that might prove injurious to the patients.
3. Visitors are expressly forbidden to furnish any inmate of the Asylum with tobacco in any form; or to deliver to, or receive from a patient, any letter, parcel, or package, without the knowledge and approbation of the Superintendent, or Assistant Physician.
4. Those having charge of patients are particularly enjoined to abstain from mentioning to visitors the names of those in their charge, their peculiarities, or any other circumstances, a knowledge of which might be painful to persons connected with them.
5. Visitors are respectfully requested not to disturb the flowers and fruit in the Asylum garden and grounds.
LIBRARY.
1. The Library of the male department shall be under the charge of the Supervisor. Every volume taken therefrom shall be charged to the borrower, except for the use of the patients, when it shall be charged to the Attendant, into whose ward it is taken, who will be responsible for its being used with ordinary care and returned in proper time.
2. If a volume shall be lost or destroyed, by any patient, the Attendant, having charge of the patient, will report the fact to the Supervisor, and, if practicable, exhibit the fragments. If lost or destroyed, by any other person, it must be replaced.
3. No one will be permitted to take from the library more than one volume at a time, or to keep a volume more than two weeks, without permission from the Superintendent or Assistant Physician, except Bibles, Testaments and Prayer books placed in the hands of the patients for daily reading.