The proprietor, lessee, or manager of any hotel shall provide a safe in the office of such hotel or other convenient place for the safekeeping of any money, jewelry, ornaments, bank notes, bonds, negotiable securities, precious stones, articles of gold and silver manufacture, or other valuable property of small compass, and shall notify the guests thereof by posting a printed copy of sections 402, 403, and 404 of this title near the registration office and in the public rooms in the hotel, and if a guest or traveler in such hotel neglects to deliver such property to the person in charge of such office for deposit in such safe, the proprietor or manager of such hotel shall not be liable for any loss of such property sustained by such guest or traveler by theft, damage, destruction or otherwise; but no hotel proprietor or manager shall be obliged to receive property on deposit for safekeeping exceeding $200 in value, and if such guest or traveler delivers such property to the person in charge of such office for deposit in such safe, such proprietor or manager shall not be liable for any loss in connection therewith sustained by such guest or traveler by theft, damage, destruction, or otherwise, in any sum exceeding the sum of $200; unless by special agreement in writing with such proprietor or manager.