Pennsylvania Act 1871-242 — COLLECTION OF MINERAL STATISTICS

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COLLECTION OF MINERAL STATISTICS
                  Act of May 9, 1871, P.L. 261, No. 242               Cl. 52
                                  AN ACT

     For the collection of mineral statistics.

        Section 1.  Duty of railroad canal or slack water navigation
     companies to make report of coal transported
        In addition to the information now required to be furnished
     to the auditor general by the several railroad and canal
     companies of this Commonwealth, each of said railroad and canal
     companies, when their railroad or canal passes through any of
     the coal regions of the State, shall report for the year one
     thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and annually, as soon
     after the first day of January in each year, or the close of the
     fiscal year of said companies, as the information can be
     procured, under oath of one of the officers of said company, to
     the Auditor General, the quantity of coal of each kind, and of
     coke in tons of two thousand pounds each, received for
     transportation at each station on every such railroad, and at
     each coal shipping point on said canal, distinguishing in said
     report the quantities received direct from the mines from that
     received from other railroad or canals, giving the name of said
     connecting railroad or canals in such a manner that the amount
     of the production of coal on the line of said railroad or canal
     may be correctly ascertained; the Monongahela Slack-Water
     Navigation Company, and all other slack-water navigation
     companies, engaged in conveying coal or coke, are also hereby
     required to make returns, in the same manner as is hereinbefore
     required of railroad and canal companies. 1871, May 9, P.L. 261,
     Sec. 1.
        Section 2.  Duty of railroad company to report coal purchase
     or mined for its own use
        It shall also be the duty of each of said railroad companies
     to report the quantity of coal purchased or mined for their own
     use in this State by them during each year, and which was
     produced along the line of said railroad, and stating at what
     place or places the same was mined, and which was not included
     in the reports of coal received for transportation before
     mentioned of said railroad, or of any other railroad or canal.
     1871, May 9, P.L. 261, Sec. 2.
        Section 3.  Information to be furnished by mine operators to
     Auditor General as to coal not transported on any railroad,
     etc.; or as to accidents
        It shall be the duty of all coal mining companies or firms
     and individuals working mines, and of all state and county
     officers, to furnish to the Auditor General, in answer to his
     letters or circulars, all information in their possession in
     regard to the quantity of coal mined that is sent to market
     direct by any navigable river, or used by any rolling mill,
     blast furnace, salt works or otherwise, and which is not
     transported on any railroad, canal or slack-water navigation
     company, and also to inform him when and of whom correct
     information as to the coal production of any such locality can
     be procured; and further, to inform him of all accidents in
     mines in counties where there is no mine inspector appointed by
     law, and how the same was caused.  1871, May 9, P.L. 261, Sec.
     3.
        Section 4.  Duty of Auditor General to collate and tabulate
     reports
        It shall be the duty of the auditor general, on receiving
     said reports, and such other authentic information as he shall
     collect, to collate said reports and information, and make a
     report, giving the results only in tabular form, showing the
     quantity of coal mined during each year in each county, and in
     each important coal producing region, in a perspicuous form,
     separating the several kinds of coal into anthracite, semi-
     bituminous, bituminous, and splint or block coal, suitable for
     smelting iron, giving also from time to time the statistics of
     each region, from the beginning of its coal trade, so far as it
     can be ascertained; he shall also specially report the number of
     accidents resulting in death or injury, in coal mines in those
     counties where there is no mine inspector, classifying them
     according to the cause thereof, whether occasioned by fire,
     explosions, falls of roof or coal in shafts or slopes, or other
     causes under ground or at the surface.  1871, May 9, P.L. 261,
     Sec. 4.
        Section 5.  Auditor General to collect and classify
     statistics of other minerals than coal
        The Auditor General shall also, in the same manner, collect
     statistics collate, classify and report, at the same time, the
     quantities of petroleum, salt, iron ore, zinc and other mineral
     productions of the commonwealth; also the pig iron and merchant
     or wrought iron manufactured in the commonwealth.  1871, May 9,
     P.L. 261, Sec. 5.
        Section 6.  Printing and distribution of report
        Eight thousand copies of said report of the Auditor General,
     together with his suggestions on the workings of existing laws
     and his propositions as to new enactments, shall be published
     for distribution, annually, as soon as it is prepared, with the
     title of mineral statistics of Pennsylvania; and one copy
     thereof Mineral Statistics of General, to each person who shall
     have furnished him with information as aforesaid, and the
     balance shall be delivered to the legislature for distribution.
     1871, May 9, P.L. 261, Sec. 6.
        Section 7.  Penalty for neglect to make report
        Any railroad or canal, or slack-water navigation company, or
     coal mining company, firm or individual engaged in mining, or
     any county officer, who shall neglect or refuse, for thirty
     days, to make report or give the information required by this
     act, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be
     recovered by order of the attorney general, in an action of debt
     in which the Commonwealth shall be plaintiff, by the district
     attorney of the proper county, the one-half thereof to go to
     said district attorney, and the other half for the use of the
     poor of the proper poor district.  1871, May 9, P.L. 261, Sec.
     7.