1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

No. 11. MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. cliii
headings, cross headings, and rooms or working places in each strata
operated; pump, fans or other ventilation apparatus, the entire
course and direction of air currents, the relation and proximity of
the workings of such coal mines to all other adjoining mines or coal
lands, and the relative elevation of all tunnels and headings, and
of the face of working places near to or approaching boundary
lines or adjacent mines; and on or before the close of each calendar
year transmit to the Chief of the Bureau of Mines a supplemental
map or plan showing all excavations, changes and additions made
tioned map or plan. All such maps or plans to be and remain in the
in such mine during the year, drawn to the scale as the first men-
Bureau of Mines as a part of the records of that office.
Section 10.
All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be
and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved—The loth day of July, A. D. 1897.
DANIEL H. HASTINGS.
AN ACT
Requiring the weighing of bituminous coal before screening, and providing a penalty
for the violation thereof.
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c, That it shall be unlawful for any
mine owner, lessee or operator of any bituminous coal mine in this
Commonwealth, employing miners at bushel or ton rates, or other
quantity, to pass the output of coal mined by said miners over any
screen or other device which shall take any part from the weight,
value or quantity thereof, before the same shall have been weighed
and duly credited to the employe sending the same to the surface and
accounted for at the legal rate of weight fixed by laws of this Commonwealth.
Section 2. Any owner, lessee or operator of any bituminous coal
mine, violating the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, for each and every such
offense be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred ($100)
dollars nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or by imprisonment
in the county jail for a period not to exceed ninety days, or
by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court;
proceedings to be instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction.