1900 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

No. 11. MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. lxxix
AN ACT
To provide payment to the miner for all clean coal mined by him.
Section 1. Be it enacted, &c, That from and after the passage of
this act all individuals, firms and corporations engaged in mining
coal in this Commonwealth, who, instead of dumping all the cars
that come from the mine into a breaker or chutes, shall
switch out
one or more of the cars for the purpose of examining them, and determining
the actual amount of slate or refuse, by removing said
slate or refuse from the car, and who shall, after so doing, willfully
neglect to allow the miner in full for all clean coal left after the refuse,
dirt or slate is
taken out, at the same rate paid at the mine for
clean coal less the actual expense of removing said slate or refuse,
he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 2. That any individual, firm or corporation as aforesaid,
violating the provisions of this act, upon suit being brought and conviction
had, shall be sentenced by the court to pay a fine of not more
than one hundred dollars, and to make restitution by paying to the
miner the amount to which, under this act, he would be entitled for
the coal mined by him, and for which he was not paid.
Approved—The 13th day of June, A. D. 1883.
ROBT. E. PATTKSON
AN ACT
To provide for the recovery of the bodies of workmen enclosed, buried or entombed
in coal mines.
Be it enacted, &c, That whenever any workman or work-
Section 1.
men shall heretofore have been, or shall hereafter be enclosed, entombed
or buried in any coal mine in this Commonwealth, it shall
be the duty of the court, sitting in equity, in the county wherein
such workman or workmen are enclosed, entombed or buried, upon
the petition of any of the relatives of those enclosed, entombed or
buried, to make an order of court for the petitioner to take testimony
in order that the court may ascertain whether such workman or
workmen, or the body or bodies of such workman or workmen, can
be recovered or taken out of said mine.
If, after full hearing, it shall appear to the court that such under
taking is feasible or practicable, said court may forthwith issue a
peremptory mandamus to the owner or owners, lessee or lessees,
operator or operators of such coal company, to forthwith proceed to
work for and recover and take out the body or bodies of such work