Light Keepers Duties 1836 - Part 2
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Duties - 1836
Saturday night.
4. FIRST DEPARTMENT.- The Light-keeper who has this department, shall immediately after the morning Watch, polish or otherwise cleanse the Reflectors or Refractors till they are brought into a proper state of brilliancy; he shall also thoroughly cleanse the Lamps, and carefully dust the Chandelier. He shall supply the Burners with cotton, the Lamps with oil, and shall have everything connected with the Apparatus in a state of readiness for lighting for lighting in the evening.
5. SECOND DEPARTMENT.- The Light-keeper who has this department shall cleanse the glass
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of the Lantern, lamp-glasses, and brass works and utensils, the walls, floors, and balcony of the Light-room, and the apparatus and machinery therewith connected; together with the Tower stair, passage, doors and windows, from the Light-room to the Oil cellar.
6. For the more effectual cleansing of the glass of the Lantern, and management of the Lamps at the time of lighting, both Light-keepers shall be upon watch throughout the first hour of the first watch every night, during the winter period, between the first day of October and the last day of March, when they shall jointly do the duty of the Light-room during that
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