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inan or workmen, and said court shall have full authority to enforce
such peremptory mandamus in
the manner already provided for the
enforcement of such process.
Approved---The 9th dav ^ 'lay, 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 enacted, &c, That this act shall apply to every
anthracite coal mine or colliery in the Commonwealth, provided the
said mine or colliery employs more than ten (10)
persons.
ARTICLE II.
Inspectors and Inspection Districts.
Section 1. The counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Luzerne, Lackawanna,
Carbon, Schuylkill, Northumberland, Columbia, Lebanon and
Dauphin, or so much of them as may be included under the provisions
of this act, shall be divided into eight (8) inspection districts as
follows:
Section 2. First. All that portion of the Lackawanna coal field lying
northeast of East and West Market streets in the city of Scranton,
and of Slocum and Drinker streets in the borough of Dunmore,
including the coal fields of Susquehanna and Wayne counties.
Second. That portion of the Lackawanna coal field in Lackawanna
county lying southwest of East and West Market streets in the city
of Scranton, and west of Slocum and Drinker streets in the borough
of Dunmore.
Third. That portion of the Wyoming coal fields situated in Luzerne
county, east of and including Plains and Kingston townships.
Fourth.
The remaining portion of the Wyoming coal field west of
Plains and Kingston townships, including the city of Wilkes-Barre
and the boroughs of Kingston and Edwardsville.
Fifth. That part of Luzerne county lying south of the Wyoming
coal field
together with Carbon county.
Sixth. That part of the Schuylkill coal field in Schuylkill county
lying north of the Broad Mountain and east of a meridian line
through the centre of the borough of Girardville.
Seventh. That part of the Schuylkill coal field in Schuylkill county
lying north of the Broad Mountain and west of a meridian line through