1898 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

No. 11. MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. clxiiiheadings, cross headings, and rooms or worlviug places in each strataoperated; pump, fans or other ventilation apparatus, the entirecourse and direction of air currents, the relation and proximity ofthe workings of such coal mines to all other adjoining mines or coallands, and the relative elevation of all tunnels and headings, andof the face of working places near to or approaching boundarylines or adjacent mines; and on or before the close of each calendaryear transmit to the Chief of the Bureau of Mines a supplementalmap or plan showing all excavations, changes and additions madein such mine during the year, drawn to the scale as the first mentionedmap or plan. All such maps or plans to be and remain in theBureau of Mines as a part of the records of that oflfice.Section 10.All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act beand the same are hereby repealed.Approved—The 15th day of July, A. D. 1897.DANIEL H. HASTINGS.AN ACTRequiring the weighing of bituminous coal before screening, and providing a penaltyfor the violation thereof.Section 1. Be it enacted, &c.. That it shall be unlawful for anymine owner, lessee or operator of any bituminous coal mine in thisCommonwealth, employing miners at bushel or ton rates, or otherquantity, to pass the output of coal mined by said miners over anyscreen or other device which shall take any part from the weight,value or quantity thereof, before the same shall have been weighedand duly credited to the employe sending the same to the surface andaccounted for at the legal rate of weight fixed by laws of this Commonwealth.Section 2. Any owner, lessee or operator of any bituminous coalmine, violating the provisions of this act,shall be deemed guilty ofa misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, for each and every suchoffense be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred (flOO)dollars nor more than five hundred (|500) dollars, or by imprisonmentin the county jail for a period not to exceed ninety days, o;*by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court;proceedings to be instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction.