Pennsylvania Act 1913-468 — COAL MINING, RECORDS REQUIRED

Act text

COAL MINING, RECORDS REQUIRED
                 Act of Jul. 25, 1913, P.L. 1038, No. 468             Cl. 52
                                  AN ACT

     Requiring any individual, firm, or corporation mining anthracite
        coal in this Commonwealth, where coal is mined and paid for
        by the car, to keep a record of all coal mined, at the
        miners' chutes, where said coal is loaded in cars; providing
        that said record shall be the final basis in computing the
        miners' earnings per car, without any deduction for any slate
        or refuse that may be loaded in said car or cars in the usual
        and natural course of mining coal; providing, further, that
        said record shall be open for the inspection of all miners;
        and providing penalties for failure to comply with the
        provisions of this act.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That at every anthracite
     coal-mine in this Commonwealth, where coal is mined and paid for
     by the car, a record of all cars of coal mined shall be kept at
     the miners' chutes, or at the most convenient and practical of
     said chutes, where said coal is loaded in cars, which record
     shall be the final basis in computing the miners' earnings per
     car, without any deduction for any slate or other refuse that
     may be loaded on said car or cars in the usual and natural
     course of mining and loading coal, and which record shall be
     open at all times for the inspection of all miners.
        Section 2.  Any individual, firm, or corporation violating
     any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a
     misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall, for each offense, be
     sentenced to pay a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more
     than one hundred dollars.
        Section 3.  Provided, That this act shall not affect any
     existing contract, not shall it prevent the making of any
     contract between the owner or operator of any mine and the
     miners employed therein as to the method of recording cars
     mined, and of deducting for refuse therein, and no penalty
     provided in this act shall apply to such owner or operator so
     contracting or agreeing.