Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of ...

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under bim, or iii the mines under his charge and supervision
as a miner, who does not hold such certificates. Any person
or persons who sliall violate or fail to comply with
the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeiinor,
and on conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not less
than one hundred dollars and not to exceed five hundred dollars, or
shall undergo imprisonment for a term not less than thir(y days and
not to exceed six months, or either, or both, at the discretion of
the court.
Section 7.
The persons who are now serving as members of the
Miners' Examining Board as created by the act approved the ninth
day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eightynine,
entitled ''An act to provide for the examination of miners in
the anthracite region of this Commonwealth, and to prevent the
employment of incompetent persons as miners in anthracite coal
mines," shall continue under the provisions of this act to serve as
members of the ''Miners' Examining Board" until the terms for
which they were appointed under the provisions of the said act a})-
proved the ninth da^^ of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred
and eight^'-nine, shall have expired, and in the performance
of the duties of their office they shall be subject to the provisions and
requirements of this act.
Section 8. Nothing in this act shall be construed to in any way,
excepting as herein provided, effect miners' certificates which have
been lawfully issued under the provisions of the herein mentioned
act, approved the ninth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-nine.
It shall be the duty of the several Miners' Examining Boards
to investigate all
complaints or charges of non compliance or viola
tion of the provisions of this act. and to prosecute all })ersons so
ofi'ending; and upon their failure so to do, then it shall become the
duty of the district
attorney of the county wherein the complaints
or charges are made to investigate the same and prosecute all pei'-
sons so offending, and it shall at all times be the duty of the district
attorney to prosecute such members of the Miners' Examining Board
as haA'e failed to perform their duty under the provisions of this
act; but nothing herein contained shall prevent any citizen, a resident
of this Oommonwealth, from prosecuting any person or i)ersons violating
this act, with power to emi)lov private counsel to assist in the
])rosecution of the same; ui)on conviction of any member of the
Miners' Examining Board for any violation of this mi\ in addition
to the i)enalties herein provided, his office shall be declared vacant,
and he shall be deemed ineligible lo act as a member of Jhe said
board.