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any State Station, withdrawing State aid from
same, where the standards and requirements as
herein set forth are not kept up or carried out.
If such station does not requalify within two
months he may, if there is a request for same,
form a station elsewhere to take the place of
the one disbanded. Nothing in this Act shall.
however, be construed to in any way interfere
with the full use of the apparatus at any time by
the owners of the same; provided, that while
the said apparatus forms the equipment of a
State Station, it shall be available as above set
forth, for emergency or for drill and training.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That this Act
take effect from and after its passage, the public
welfare requiring it.
Passed Sept. 27, 1913.
NEWTON H. WHITE,
Speaker of the Senate.
W. M. STANTON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Approved Sept. 27, 1913.
BEN W. HOOPER,
Governor.
CHAPTER NO. 29.
House Bill No. 65.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
AN ACT entitled "An Act to require all persons,
• corporations, companies, firms or partnerships,
to have two regular pay days each
month."
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As­
sembly of the State of Tennessee, That all cor­
porations doing business within this State, who
shall employ any salesman, mechanics, laborers
or other employees, and who operate a commis­
sary or supply store in connection with their busi­
ness, shall pay the wages balance then due of
such employee in lawful money semi-monthly on
Saturday nearest the fifteenth and thirtieth of
each month, provided deduction to be made from
amount due for such advances made in the way
of cash, supplies, rent, etc., that may have been
furnished.
SEC. 2, Be it further enacted. That any person
corporation, company, firm or parnerships that
through its president or otherwise violates Section
1 of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof shall be fined
in any sum not less than $50.00 nor more than
$500.00 for each offense.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted. That all laws and
parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed,
and that this Act shall take effect and be
in full force and effect from and after November
1, 1913, the public welfare requiring it.
Passed Sept. 26, 1913.
XV. M. STANTON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
NEWTON H. WHITE,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved Sept. 27, 1913.
BEN W. HOOPER,
Governor.
COAL LAND SALES FROM RECORDS j
The Operators Coal Co., Johnstown, Pa., has purchased
these tracts of coal in East and West Wheatfield
township, Indiana county, Pa.: Martin L. Fry,
85 acres. $3,008; William M. Fry, 61 acres, $2,i43;
Charles B. Grumbling's executors, 112 acres, $3,-
943; Robert Trindle, 260 acres, $9,770; A. V. Barker.
S4 acres, $2,962; D. D. Blanch. $1,163; James
Dick, 130 acres, $10,000; Charles A. Dick, 49 acres,
$1,718; Ruth A. Dick, 140 acres, $4,913: Daniel
Reilly, 96 acres, $3,378; Bertie A. Rodgers, 75
acres, $2,634; James A. Mack, 102 acres, $-3,895;
James D. Mitchell, S6 acres. $3,012: Rebecca E.
Lawson, 10 acres. 353; John A. Cailson. 94 acres,
$6,000.
D. E. Runnion of Strange Creek, W. Va.. has
sold to J. O. Clark of Uniontown, Pa.. 510 acres
of coal at approximately $300 per acre, on the
Elk river, in West Virginia.
William Rogers of Independence township, Washington
county, Pa., has sold 254 acres of coal in
that township to David C. Miller of Alt. Pleasant
township at a private pi ice.
T. J. Wisecarver, C. J. Waychoff and E. D. Patterson
have sold to J. V. Thompson, of Uniontown,
Pa.. 40 acres of c-oal in Monongalia county, W. Va.,
for $11,849.69.
Frank A. Gump and T. J. Wisecarver have sold
to J. V. Thompson, of Uniontown, Pa.. 141 acres
of coal in Monongalia county, W. Va., for $43,711.26.
The Johnson estate has sold 100 acres of coal at
Berlin, Pa., to the Brothers Valley Coal Co. at
$100 per acre.
The total shipments of coal through tbe Sault
Ste. Marie canals for the season of 1913 were 18,-
622,938 tons, of which 15,878,364 were bituminous
and 2,744,574 anthracite. This is 3,691,344 tons
in excess of the 1912 shipments. The U. S. canal
was open 245 clays and the Canadian canal 246
clays. Of the total shipments 14,742,207 tons went
through the 1'. S. canal ancl 4,150,731 tons through
the Canadian canal.