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

No. 10. MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Ixiii
Section 7.
The salary of each of the said inspectors shall be three
thousand dollars per annum, which salary, together with the expense
incurred in carrying into effect the provisions of this act, shall be
paid by the State Treasurer out of the Treasury of the Commonwealth
upon the warrant of the Auditor General.
Section 8. In case the inspector becomes incapacitated to perform
the duties of his office, for a longer period than two weeks, it shall be
the duty of the judges of the court of common pleas to deputize some
competent person recommended by the Board of Examiners to fill the
office of inspector until the said inspector shall be able to fulfill
duties of his oftice and the person so appointed shall be paid in the
same manner as is provided for the Inspector of Mines.
Section 9. Each of the said inspectors shall reside in the district
for which he is appointed, and shall give his whole time and attention
to the duties of the office. He shall examine all the collieries in
his district as often as his duties will permit or as often as the exigencies
of the case or the condition of the mines require it; see that
evei'y necessary precaution is taken to secure the safety of the workmen
and that the provisions of this act are observed and obeyed;
attend every inquest held by the coroner, or his deputy, upon the
bodies of persons killed in or about the collieries in his district; visit
the scene of the accident for the purpose of making an examination
into the particulars of the same whenever loss of life or serious personal
injury occurs as elsewhere herein provided for, and make an
annual report of his proceedings to the Secretary of Internal Affairs
of the Commonwealth at the close of every year, enumerating all the
accidents in and about the collieries of his district, marking in tabular
form those accidents causing death or serious personal injury,
the condition of the workings of the said mines with regard to the
safety of the workmen therein and the ventilation thereof, and the
i-esult of his labors generally shall be fully set forth.
Section 10. The Board of Examiners, each for its respective district
as hereinbefore provided for, in order to divide more equitably
among the several mine inspectors the labor to be performed and the
territory to be covered by them in the performance of the duties of
the office, may, at any time when they shall deem it
the
desirable or necessary,
readjust the several districts by the creation of new boundary
lines, thereby adding to or taking from, as the case may be, the
districts as at present bounded and described, if the court having
jurisdiction approve the same.
And in case it shall be deemed desirable or necessary to readjust
any contiguous district, comprised by more than one judicial district,
by the creation of new boundary lines, then in such case the
examining boards of the territory affected or requiring such adjustment,
shall, in joint session, make such change or readjustment as
they shall jointly agree upon, if the nearest court having jurisdic-