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

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tion and competency under this act, and the holder thereof shiill
entitled to be registered without examination in any other of the
anthracite districts, upon the payment of the fee herein provided.
All persons applying for examination for a certificate of competency,
or to entitle them to be employed as miners, must produce satisfactory
evidence of having had not less than two years' practical
experience as a mine laborer.
Section 6. That no person shall hereafter engage as a miner in any
anthracite coal mine without having obtained such certificate as
aforesaid.
And no person shall employ any person as a miner who
does not hold such certificate as aforesaid, and no mine foreman or
superintendent shall permit or suffer any person to be employed
under him, or in the mines under his charge and supervision as a
miner, who does not hold such certificate. Any person who shall
violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof, in the court of
quarter sessions, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars.
Section 7. That all persons who shall be actually engaged as
miners at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to
registration without examination, upon producing satisfactory proof
that they have been employed in an anthracite mine in this Commonwealth.
Section 8. Tt shall be the duty of the several Miners' Examining
Boards to investigate all complaints or charges of non-comi)liance
or violation of the provisions of this act and prosecute all
be
persons so
offending, whenever there shall appear to the board reasonable
ground for such action.
Section 0. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith be
and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved—The 9th day of May, A. D. 1889.
JAMES A.
BEAVER.
AN ACT
To provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite
coal mines of Pennsylvania and for the protection and preservation of
property connected therewith.
ARTICLE I.
Section 1. Be it enacled, &(•., That this act shall apjdy to every
anthracite coal mine or colliery in
the (commonwealth, provided the
said mine or colliery employs more than ten (10) persons.