3. See that the series of proof sheets is clean and clear; send for another proof in case they are not.
4. Revise carefully, observing connections between pages, carrying all unanswered queries, and taking care that continued and repeated lines are free from errors.
5. If a revise is badly corrected or is from any cause not reasonably free from error, call for another correction and proof (stating number wanted), and destroy all duplicates.
6. Be on the lookout for “dropouts,” doublets, and transpositions, applying the rules laid down for first revisers.
7. Read by copy all running heads, and box heads in continuous tables; see that all leading lines are carried at the top where subordinate matter turns over; that dollar marks and italic captions of columns are properly placed and uniform; that the matter is as compact as circumstances will permit, and that footnotes fall on the page containing the corresponding reference, and are symmetrically arranged.
8. Preserve complete files of all proofs returned to the desk in the ordinary course of business, especially of the final proofs from which a work is sent to the press or foundry.
9. On first page of a signature of a stone or press revise carry the number of copies and kind of paper, with any special directions that may be necessary; and see that the form is properly imposed.
10. Be particular in making the “mark-off” on a galley slip when the first page proofs are sent out, cutting the proof sheet and noting upon it the connecting galley slug, the folio of the succeeding page, and the proper signature of the same. Retain the “mark-off” and deliver the galley slips with the clean proof to the proof clerk.
11. Always make sure that different sets of proof sheets on any work are correctly marked in series, as “R,” “2d R,” “3d R,” etc., and when a sheet is stamped “another proof” carry the same designating “R” on the corresponding clean one, and destroy the stamped proof when it has served its purpose.