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

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Section 5. It is provided further, tliat where two or more mines or
collieries are located within one mile of each other, or the ambulance
is located within one mile of each colliery, but one ambulance, as
aforesaid, shall be required, if the said mines or collieries have ready
and quick means of communication, one with the other, by telegraph
or telephone.
Section 6. An ambulance, as aforesaid, shall not be required at
any mine or colliery at which less than twenty (20) persons are employed.
Section 7. In case the distance from any mine or colliery to the
place of abode of the person injured, is such as to permit his conveyance
to his home or to an hospital more quickly and conveniently
by railway, such mode of conveyance shall be permitted, but in such
case the conveyance must be under cover and the comfort of the injured
person must be provided for.
Section 1.
ARTICLE VIII.
Certified Mine Foremen.
It shall not be lawful, neither shall it be permitted, for
any person or persons to act as mine foreman or assistant mine foreman
of any coal mines or colliery, unless they are registered as a
holder of a certificate of qualification or service under this act.
Section 2.
Certificates of qualification to mine foremen and assistant
mine foremen shall be granted by the Secretary of Internal Affairs
to every applicant who may be reported by the examiners, as
hereinafter provided, as having passed a satisfactory examination
and as having given satisfactory evidence of at least five years' practical
experience as a miner, and of good conduct, capability and sobriety.
The certificate shall be in manner and form as shall be prescribed
by the Secretary of Internal Affairs, and a record of all certificates
issued shall be kept in his department.
Section 3. For the purpose of examination of candidates for such
certificates, a board of examiners shall be appointed in each of the
inspection districts provided for by this act. The said board shall
consist of the district inspector of mines, two (2) practical miners
and one owner, operator or superintendent of a mine. The said inspector
shall act ex-officio, and the said engineer and owner, operator
or superintendent shall be appointed in like manner and at the same
time as the boards of examiners for candidates for mine inspectorship
under this act are now appointed. The said board shall act as
such for the period of one year from the date of their appointment.
Meetings of the board may be held at any time, and they may make
such riiles and conduct such examinations as in (heir judgment may
seem proper for the purpose of such examinations. The said board