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masculine gender is used, the feminine and neuter
shall be included.
Employer is declared to be synonymous with
master and includes natural persons, partnerships,
joint stock companies, corporations for profit, corporations
not for profit, municipal corporations,
the commonwealth and all governmental agencies
created by it. Employee is synonymous with
servant, and includes all natural persons wdio perform
service for another for a valuable consideration,
exclusive of casual employments and exclusive
of persons to whom articles or materials are
given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered,
ornamented, finished or repaired or adapted for
sale in the worker's own home or on other premises
not under the control or management of the
employer.
The exercise and performance of the powers and
duties of a local or other public authority shall,
for the purposes of this act, be treated as the trade
or business of the authority.
Section 2. No claim or agreement for legal
services or disbursements pertaining to any demand
made or suit brought under the provisions
of any Article of this act shall be
AN ENFORCEABLE LIEN
against the amount to be paid as compensation
or be valid or inn ding in any other respect,
unless the same be approved in writing by the
judge presiding at the trial, or, in case of settlement
without trial, by a judge of the common
pleas court of the county in which the issue arose.
After such aprroval, if notice in writing be given
to the employer of such claim or agreement for
legal services and disbursements, the same shall
be a lien against any amount thereafter to be paid
as a compensation; Provided, however, that where
the employee's compensation is payable by the
employer in periodical instalments, the court shall
fix, at the time of approval, the proportion of each
instalment to be paid on account of legal services
and disbursements.
Section 3. If for any reason any paragraph
or any provision of this act shall be questioned
in any court, and shall have been held by such
court to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same
shall not be held to affect any other paragraph
or provision of this act, except that Articles I
and II are hereby declared to be inseparable and
as one legislative thought, and if either Articles
be declared by such court void or inoperative in
an essential part, so that the whole of such Article
must fall, the other Article shall fall with it and
not stand alone. The first, second and third
Sections of Article I of this act shall not apply
in cases v.here Article II becomes operative in accordance
with the provisions thereof, but shall
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apply in all other cases and in such cases shall be
in extension of the common law.
Sections 4, 5 and 6 remain the same.
The Manor Real Estate & Trust Co., of Philedelphia,
has purchased 850 acres of coal in Blacklick
township, Cambria county, Pa., from f. N. Wissinger,
R. E. Thompson and Robert Ferguson, at
$125 per acre. It adjoins 9,000 acres recently
purchased by the same company.
The Ragon Coal Mining Co., Corry, Pa., A. B,
Ragon, president, has purchased 300 ovens of coal
from the Hamilton Coal Co., in Butler county, Pa.,
along with the going operation. The capacity is
to be increased.
W. H. Skaggs of Birmingham, Ala., has sold to
H. L. Bodham, of the same place, for the Bessemer
Coal, Iron & Land Co., 40,000 acres of coal in the
Blocton field of that state at a price said to be
$5,000,000.
Benjamin W. Carskaddon, of Philadelphia, has
purchased from the original owners 2,263 acres of
coal in Cambria township, Cambria county, Pa., for
$125 per acre and 379 acres of surface for $8,000.
E. E. Morris of Waynesburg, Pa., has sold a tract
of coal in Monongalia county, W. Va., consideration
$10,000. The purchasers of the coal are Dr. F. C.
Stahlman and others of Charleroi, Pa.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cocl i an of Uniontown, Pa., has
purchased 50C acres of coal at Dawson, Pa., for
$60,000. It is the property W. H. Cochran purchased
a few years ago.
Dr. John D. Bay of Craig, Col., has purchased
1,440 acres of coal at Azial, Col., for $70,000. The
vein of coal at one opening shows a depth of 24
feet.
George D. Thompson, of Brownsville, Pa., has
sold to Holmes A. Davis and J. H. Hillman of Pittsburgh
55 acres of coal near Brownsville for $60,000.
Daniel Saylor, of Jenner township, Somerset
county, Pa., has sold 207 acres of coal to the United
Coal Co., Pittsburgh, for $20,700.
Deposits of coal said to contain 85 per cent, of
fixed carbon and to resemble Pennsylvania anthracite
quite closely are under development on the
Queen Charlotte Islands. The Standard Coal Co.
and the British Pacific Coal Co. have recently began
operations there and expect to find a growing
market for their product when the Grand Trunk
Pacific railway is built through to the coast.