1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

No. 11. MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. cxlvii
Superintendent. The term "superintendent" means the person
who shall have, on behalf of the operator, immediate supervision of
one or more mines.
Bituminous Mines. The term "bituminous" coal mines shall include
all
coal mines in the State not now included in the anthracite
boundaries.
The provisions of this act shall not apply to any mine employing
less than ten persons in any one period of twenty-four hours.
Section 1.
ARTICLE XXIII.
That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be
and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved—The 15th day of May, A. D. 1893.
ROBT. E. PATTISON.
AN ACT
Equalizing and fixing the compensation and mileage of the members of the several
boards appointed under the provisions of the act approved June second,
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, to examine candidates for appointment
as Inspectors, foremen and fire bosses, respectively, in the anthracite
coal mines, and providing for the employment and compensation and mileage
of a clerk to each of said boards.
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of
this act the members of the several boards appointed under the provisions
of the act approved June second, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-one, to examine candidates for appointment respectively
as inspectors and foremen of anthracite coal mines, shall
receive
in lieu of all compensation, mileage, expenses, emoluments or
allowances heretofore paid them, as follows:
Six dollars per day for
each day during which the said members shall be actually in attendance
on the sessions of the board, and mileage at the rate of
five cents for each mile actually traveled going from the home of the
member to the place of meeting of the board and returning from said
place to his said home by the shortest practicable railway route:
Provided, That mileage shall be paid but once for each continuous
session of the board, and by a continuous session shall be meant a
session during the course of which no adjournment for a longer
period than forty-eight hours shall take place.
Section 2. Each of the boards enumerated or described in the first
section of this act shall be and the same is hereby authorized to employ
a clerk, whose compensation and mileage shall be the same as
that of a member of the board. So much of section four of the act