1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

No. 11. MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. CXl
shafts, slopes, tunnels and other openings in
driven, together with all
course of being sunk or
roads, appliances, machinery and materials
connected with the same below the surface.
The term ''shaft" means a vertical opening through the strata and
which is or may be used for the purpose of ventilation or drainage
or for hoisting men or material in connection with the mining of
coal.
The term "slope" means any inclined way or opening used for the
same purpose as a shaft.
The term ''breaker' means the structure containing the machinery
used for the preparation of coal.
The term "owners" and "operators" means any person or body corporate
who is the immediate proprietor or lessee or occupier of any
coal mine or colliery or any part thereof. The term "owner" does
not include a person or body corporate who merely receives a royalty,
rent or fine from a coal mine or colliery or part thereof, or is merely
the proprietor of
the mine subject to any lease, grant or license for
the working or operating thereof, or is merely the owner of the soil
and not interested in the minerals of the mine or any part thereof.
But any "contractor" for the working of a mine or colliery or any
part or district thereof, shall be subject to this act as an operator or
owner, in like manner as if he were the owner.
The term "superintendent" means the person who shall have, on
behalf of the owner, general supervision of one or more mines or collieries.
ARTICLE XIX.
All laws or parts of laws inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions
of this act are hereby repealed.
Approved—The 2d day of June, A. D. 1891.
ROBT. E.
PATTISON.
AN ACT
Relating to bituminous coal mines and providing for the lives, health, safety and
welfare of persons employed therein.
ARTICLE I.
Survey—Maps and Plans.
Section t. Be it enacted, &c, That the operator or superintendent
of every bituminous coal mine shall make, or cause to be made by a
competent mining engineer or surveyor, an accurate map or plan of
such coal mine, not smaller than on a scale of two hundred feet to
an inch, which map shall show as follows: