1898 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

clxiv MINING LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Off. Doc.Section '6.All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be andthe same are hereby repealed.Approved— The 15th day of July, A. D. 1897.DANIEL H. HASTINGS.AN ACTTo protect the lives and limbs of miners from the dangers resulting from incompetentminers working in the anthracite coal mines of this Commonwealth, andto provide for the examination of persons seeking employment as miners in theanthracite region, and to prevent the employment of incompetent persons asminers in anthracite coal mines, and providing penalties for a violation of thesame.Section 1. Be it enacted, &c.. That hereafter no person whomsoevershall be employed or engaged in the anthracite coal regionof this Commonwealth, as a miner in any anthracite coal mine, withouthaving obtained a certificate of competency and qualificationso to do from the "Miners' Examining Board" of the proper district,and having been duly registered as herein provided.Section 2. That there shall be established in each of the eightinspection districts in the anthracite coal region, a board to bestyled the "Miners' Examining Board" of thedistrict,to consist of nine miners who shall be appointed in the same manneras the boards to examine mine inspectors are now appointed fromamong the most skillful miners actually engaged in said business intheir respective districts, and who must have had five years' practicalexperience in the same. The said persons so appointed shall eachserve for a term of two years from the date on which their appointmenttakes effect, and they shall be appointed upon or before the expiration of the term of the present members of the "Miners' ExaminingBoard," and they shall be and constitute the "Miners' ExaminingBoard" for their respective districts, and shall liold the oflScefor the terni for which they were appointed, or until their successorsare duly appointed and qualified, and shall receive as compensationfor their services three dollars per day for each day actually engagedin this service, and all legitimate and necessary expenses incurredin attending the meetings of said board under the provisions of thisact, and no part of the salary of said board or expenses thereof shallbe paid out of the State Treasury.Each of said boards shall organize by electing one of their membars president, and one member as secretary, and by dividing them