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made therefor by the owner, lessee or person en­
gaged in the operation thereof and by a majority
of the niiners employed therein, and when such
Industrial Commission shall be satisfied that such
method of blasting is necessary for the just and
reasonably profitable operation of such mine.
Such permit may be revoked at any time by said
commission after sixty days' notice in writing
to such owner, lessee or person operating such
mine. Any person in interest who is dissatisfied
with any order of said Industrial Commission
made under the power conferred upon it by this
section, may commence an action to set asicb*.
vacate or amend such order in the sann* manner
and for the same reason as other orders of such
Commission may be se, aside, vacated or amend­
ed.
Sec. 3. Each section of this act is hereby de­
clared to be an independent section and the holding
of any section to be void or in effective for
any cause shall not be deemed to affect any other
section thereof.
NUMBER Fori;.
A BILL
To amend section 934 of the General Code, rela­
tive to emergency supplies which are to be
kept for use at the mines.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Ohio:
Section 1. That section 934 of the General
Code be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 934. The owner, lessee or agent of a mine
at, in, or around which, more than ten persons
are employed, shall * furnish for each
thirty-five men so employed a properly constructed
stretcher, * * * a woolen blanket, * * *
a waterproof blanket, * * a sufficient quan­
tity of bandages and linen * * * * ancl such
other necessary requisites for use in case of acci­
dent as may from time to time be prescribed by
the Industrial Commission of Ohio. At mines
generating fire-damp so as to be detected by a
safety lamp, a sufficient quantity of olive or linseed
oil shall be kept * * for use in emer­
gencies. It shall be the duty of each safety foreman
to keep in a safe and dry place in the ter­
ritory over which he has charge such stretcher,
woolen and waterproof blankets and other sup­
plies. He shall care for the same and keep them
in a dry and sanitary condition always ready for
use.
Sec. 2. That said original section 934 of the
General Code be and the same is hereby repealed.
NUMBER FINE.
A BILL
To regulate the weighing of coal at the mine.
Section I. On and after the first day of October,
1914, every miner and every loader of coal in any
mine in this state who under the terms of his
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employment is to be paid for niining or loading
such coal on the basis of the ton or other weight
shall be paid for such mining or loading accord­
ing to the total weight of all such c-oal contained
within the car (hereinafter referred to as mine
car) in which the sann- shall have been removed
out of the mine; provided, the contents of such
car when so removed, shall contain no greater
percentage of slate, sulphur, rock, dirt, or other
impurity than that ascertained and determined
by the Industrial Commission of Ohio as hereinafter
enacted.
Sec. 2. Not later than the date set forth iu
section 1 hereof, and thereafter as herinafter pro*
vided, said Industrial Commission shall ascertain
and determine the percentage of slate, sulphur,
rock, dirt, or other impurity unavoidable in the
proper mining or loading of tlie contents of mine
cars of coal in the several operating mines within
this state.
Sec. 3. On and after the date set forth in sec­
tion 1 hereof it shall be the duty of such miner
or loader of coal and his employer to agree upon
and fix for stipulated periods, the percentage of
fine eoal commonly known as nut, pea, dust and
slack allowable in the output of the mine wherein
such miner or loader is employed.
At any time when there shall not be in effect
such agreed and fixed percentage of fine coal al
lowable in the output of any mine said Industrial
Commission shall forthwith upon request of such
miner or loader or his employer, fix such allow­
able percentage of fine eoal, which percentage so
fixed by said Industrial Commission shall continue
in force until otherwise agreed and fixed by such
miner or loader and his employer.
Whenever said Industrial Commission shall find
that the total output of such line coal at any
mine for a period of one month during whieli
such mine shall have been operating while the
percentage of fine coal so fixed by said Industrial
Commission has been in force, exceeds the per­
centage so fixed by it. said
INDUSTRIAL COM .MISSION
shall at once make, enter and cause to be enforced
such order or orders relative to the pro­
duction of coal at such mine, as will result in
reducing the percentage of such fine coal, to the*
amount so fixed by said Industrial Commission.
Sec. 4. After the date set forth in section 1
of this act said Industrial Commission, shall, as
to all coal mines in this state, which have not
been in operation prior to said date, perrorm the
duties imposed upon it by the provisions hereof.
Sec. 5. Said Industrial Commission shall have
full power from time to time, to change, upon
investigation, any percentage by it ascertained
and determined, or fixed, as provided in the pre­
ceding sections hereof.