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

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No. 10. MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Ixxv
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report their action to the Secretary of Internal Affairs, and at
least three (3) of the members thereof shall certify to the qualification
of each candidate who has passed such examination. The traveling
expenses of the members of such board to and from their place of
meeting, together with the sum of five dollars per day each to the
said two (2) practical miners and owner, operator or superintendent,
members of each board, for each day they are actually engaged
therein, not exceeding ten (10) days in all, during the year, shall be
paid by the Commonwealth on an order of the Auditor General
drawn on the State Treasurer upon the certificate of the mine in
spector, member of such board.
Section 4.
Certificates of qualification to mine foreman and assistant
mine foreman shall be granted by the Secretary of Internal Affairs
to every applicant who may be reported by the examiners, as
heretofore provided, as having passed a satisfactory examination
and as having given satisfactory evidence of at least five (5) 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 the department. Certificates of
qualification and certificate of service shall contain the full name,
age and place of birth of the applicant, as also the length and nature
of his previous service in or about the mines.
Section 5. Before certificate as aforesaid shall be granted applicants
for same shall pay to the Secretary of Internal Affairs the following
fee, namely
For examination, one dollar; for registration of certificate, one dollar,
for certificate, one dollar. All fees so received shall be covered
into the treasury of the Commonwealth.
Section G. No mines shall be operated for a longer period than
thirty days without the supervision of a mine foreman. In case any
mine is worked a longer period than thirty (30) days without sucli
certified mine foreman, the owner, operator or superintendent
thereof shall be subject to a penalty of twenty dollars per day for
each day over the
operated.
said thirty (30) days during which the said mine is
Section 7. In case of the loss or destruction of a certificate the Secretary
of
Internal Affairs may supply a copy thereof to the ])erson
losing the same upon the payment of the sum of fifty (50) cents: Provided,
It shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary that
the loss has actually occurred.
Section 8. If any person or persons shall forge or counterfeit a certificate
or knowingly make or cause to be made any false statement
in any certificate under this act, or in any official copy of the same, or
shall urge others to do so, or shall utter or use any such forged or