Pub. 14 2019-2020 Issue 1

WWW.NEBANKERS.ORG 16 COUNSELOR’S CORNER "Being old and lame of my Hands, and thereby uncapable of assisting my Fellow Citizens, when their Houses are on Fire; I must beg them to take in good Part the following Hints on the Subject of Fires. In the first Place, as an Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure . . . The author goes on to talk of “Prevention” including regulating hearth sizes, licensing chimney sweeps, and organizing a] Club or Society of active Men belonging to each Fire Engine; whose Business is to attend all Fires with it whenever they happen; and to work it once a Quarter, and see it kept in order: Some of these are to handle the Firehooks, and others the Axes, which are always kept with the Engine; and for this Service they are considered in an Abatement or Exemption in the Taxes . . . These Officers, with the Men belonging to the Engine, at their Quarterly Meetings, discourse of Fires, of the Faults committed at some, the good Management in some Cases at others, and thus communicating their Thoughts and Experience they grow wise in the ehing, and know how to command and to execute in the best manner upon every emergency." “On Protection of Towns from Fire, 4 February 1735,” Founders Online, National Archives. 1 An Ounce of Prevention: Business Continuity and Incident Response in Technology Service Provider Contracts Bryan Handlos, Kutak Rock LLP