1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

No. 11. MINING LAWS OP PENNSYLVANIA. cxxix
from the names on file, the highest percentage in the office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, until the number shall be exhausted,
and whenever this may occur, the Governor shall cause the aforesaid
board of examiners to meet, and they shall examine persons
who may present themselves for the vacant office of mine inspector
as herein provided, and the board of examiners shall certify to
the Governor all persons who shall have made ninety per centum
in said examination, one of whom to be commissioned by him according
to the provisions of this act for the office of mine inspector for
(he unexpired term, and any vacancy that may occur in the examining
board shall be filled by the Governor of this Commonwealth.
Section 8. Each inspector of mines shall receive for his services
an annual salary of three thousand dollars and actual traveling expenses,
to be paid quarterly by the State Treasurer upon warrant
of the Auditor General, and each mine inspector shall keep an office
in the district for which he is commissioned and he shall be permitted
to keep said office at his place of residence: Provided, A
suitable apartment or room be set off for that purpose. Each mine
inspector is hereby authorized to procure such instruments, chemical
tests and stationery and to incur such expenses of communication
from time to time, as may be necessary to the proper discharge
of his duties under this act at the cost of the State, which shall be
paid by the State Treasurer upon accounts duly certified by him and
audited by the proper department of the State.
Section 9. All instruments, plans, books, memoranda, notes and
other material pertaining to the office shall be the property of the
State, and shall be delivered to their successors in office. In addition
to the expenses now allowed by law to the mine inspectors in
erforcing the several provisions of this act, they shall be allowed all
necessary expenses by them incurred in enforcing the several provisions
of said law in the respective courts of the Commonwealth,
the same to be paid by the State Treasurer on warrants drawn by
the Auditor General after auditing the same; all such accounts presented
by the mine inspector to
the Auditor General shall be itemized
and first approved by the court before which the proceedings
were instituted.
Section 10. Each mine inspector of bituminous coal mines shall,
before entering upon the discharge of his duties, give bond in the
sum of five thousand dollars, with sureties to be approved by the
president judge of the district in which he resides, conditional for
(he faithful discharge of his duties, and take an oath or affirmation to
discharge his duties impartially and with fidelity to the best of his
knowledge and ability. But no person who shall act as manager or
agent of any coal mine, or as mining engineer or is interested in operating
any coal mine, shall, at the same time act as mine inspector of
coal mines under this act.
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