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 a Sec. 8408. Rights of miners and 
 
 «owners of mineral lands—condition of 
 
 _-permits——When any person owning 
 <f? real estate in this state, or any person 
 pi having a leashold interest in such real 
 estate for mining purposes by lease from 
 
 the owner thereof, duly acknowledged 
 and recorded in the county wherein the 
 land lies, shall permit any person or 
 persons, other than their servants, agents 
 
 or employes, to enter and dig or mine 
 thereon for lead ore or other minerals, 
 with the consent of such owner or owners 
 
 or lessee, he or they shall keep a printed 
 statement of the terms, conditions and 
 
 . requirements upon which such lands may 
 be mined or prospected, and the time 
 during which the right to mine or pros- 
 pect thereunder shall continue, posted or 
 hung up in a conspicuous place, in plain, 
 
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 e ieibie characters, in the principle office 
 
 -or place of business | of\ such person or 
 " company, in'the county in which said 
 lands are situated, or in a county con- 
 tiguous thereto, and shall deliver to any 
 person mining or prospecting, or about to 
 mine or prospect on said lands, and re- 
 questing it, a printed copy of such state- 
 ment; all persons digging or mining on 
 said lands, after the posting up of such 
 statement, shall be deemed to have agreed 
 to and accepted the terms thereof, and 
 shall, together with such owner or lessee, 
 be bound thereby, and upon failure or 
 refusal to comply with the terms, condi- 
 tions and requirements of such state- 
 ment, he or they shall forfeit all right 
 thereunder, and the owner or lessee, as 
 aforesaid, of such lands, may re-enter 
 theron and take possession of the same, 
 nor shall the receipt of any ore or mineral 
 by any such owner or lessee, after any 
 such forfeiture has been ineurred, be 
 deemed or taken as a waiver of such for- 
 feiture. (R.S. 1899, § 8766.) 
 
 Sec. 8409. Forfeiture.— Whenever any 
 such owner or lessee of real estate shall 
 permit any person or persons, other then 
 their servants, agents or employes, to en- 
 ter and dig for lead ore or other minerals 
 
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 on such real estate, with his consent, but 
 without such owner or léssee complying 
 with the provisions of section 8408, and , 
 such person or persons having so entered 
 upon said lands by the permission or 
 consent of such owner or lessee as afore- 
 said, and having in good faith dug or open- 
 ed any shaft, mine, quarry, prospect or 
 deposit of mineral, or extended or opened 
 from any shaft or mine any room, drift, 
 entry or other excavation, he or they 
 shall have the exclusive right as against 
 such owner or lessee giving such permit 
 or consent, and against any person claim- 
 ing by, through or under such owner or 
 lessee, to continue to work, mine and 
 dig such shaft, mine prospect or deposit 
 of mineral so dug or opened by himor 
 them as aforesaid, in said real estate, 
 with a right of way over such lands for 
 the purpose of such mining, for the term 
 of three years from the date of the giving 
 of such consent or permit: Provided, 
 however, that if such person or persons, 
 in each case so mining as aforesaid, shall 
 fail or neglect to work or cause to be 
 worked, such shaft, mine, quarry, pros- 
 pect or deposit of mineral for ten days, 
 not including Sundays, in any one cgal- 
 endar month, after commencing said 
 work, he or they shall forfeit all rights 
 
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 to work, mine or hold the same as against 
 such owner or lessee, unless such failure 
 or neglect was caused by unavoidable 
 circumstances, or by the act of such 
 owner or lessee or his agent, or unless 
 such owner or lessee consent thereto: 
 Provided, further, that such person or 
 persons, so mining as aforesaid, shall pay 
 to the owner or lessee of said lands giving .. 
 such permit or consent the royalty for 
 mining thereon, at least once every 
 month, if demanded by such owner or 
 lessee, by delivering the same to him at 
 or near the mouth or opening of such 
 mine, shaft or quarry, or at the nearest 
 - usual place of business of such owner or 
 lessee, or at any other place that may be 
 agreed upon by such miner and owner or 
 lessee; which said royalty, unless other- 
 wise agreed upon by them, shall be the 
 same in kind and proportionate amount 
 as is paid by others mining the same kind 
 of ore or mineral on said lands to such 
 owner or lessee, or the value of such 
 royalty in cash; and if there be no other 
 person mining on said lands on terms 
 _prescribed by such owner or lessee, then 
 he or they shall pay to such owner or 
 jessee the same rate and kind of royalty . 
 on lead ore or minerals’ taken ~ 
 out by him or them as is paid 
 
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 by miners on lands nearest there- 
 to belonging to other persons, or 
 the value of such royalty in: cash. 
 Such owner or lessee of any real estate 
 shall have a lien on all minerals taken 
 or dug therefrom for the royalty due 
 thereon until the same is paid; and if 
 any such person or persons so mining 
 shall refuse or fail to pay such royalty 
 to such owner or lessee, or his agent, 
 when demanded as aforesaid, he or they 
 shall thereby forfeit the right to work 
 such mine, shaft, quarry, prospect or 
 deposit of mineral, and the said owner 
 or lessee may thereupon enter and take 
 possession of the same. (R. S. 1899, 
 § 8767.) . 
 
 Sec. 8410. Tender of payment — 
 Any such person or persons who, by 
 the permission or consent of the owner 
 or lessee of any real estate, and. having 
 the right to mine thereon, and having 
 entered and dug or mined thereon any 
 lead ore or other material, shall have the 
 right to the exclusive possession of such | 
 ore or mineral, except the royalty there- 
 on, which shall be paid as hereinbefore 
 provided, until ‘he or they shall be paid 
 or tendered by such owner or lessee of 
 ~such real estate the then highest market 
 price in cash paid by such owner or lessee. 
 
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 for the same kind of ore or mineral dug 
 or mined on said lands, and if no other 
 such ores or minerals are at the time 
 being dug or mined on said lands and 
 sold to such owner or lessee, then the 
 highest price.paid for such ore or mineral 
 dug on lands nearest thereto shall be paid 
 or tendered. by such owner or lessee in 
 such case, and upon such payment or ten- 
 der, the absolute right to the possession of 
 such lead ore or other mineral so dug out 
 and mined under the provisions of the 
 next preceding section, and for which 
 such payment or tender shall have been 
 made, shall vest in such owner or lessee. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8768.) 
 
 Sec. 8411. Notice to owner or les- 
 see.—If any person or persons having 
 dug or mined lead ore or other mineral, © 
 and having the same in his or their pos- 
 Session, and having offered to deliver 
 such mineral according to contract, or 
 paid or tendered the royalty, if any, due 
 thereon, or the value of such-royalty in 
 cash, to such owner or lessee of said real 
 estate, or to his agent, shall serve or 
 cause to be-served a notice in writing 
 upon such owner or lessee or his agent, 
 by delivering to him a copy thereof, or 
 by leaving a copy thereof at the usual 
 place of abode of such owner, lessee or 
 
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 -agent, with some member of the family 
 over the age of fifteen years, stating in 
 such notice the amount of lead ore or 
 other mineral he or they have ready for 
 delivery, and requiring such owner, lessee 
 or agent to receive and pay for the same, 
 the said owner or lessee shall, within five 
 days after the service of such notice, 
 receive and pay for such lead ore or 
 other mineral which the said person or 
 persons digging or mining the same may 
 deliver to him, not exceeding the amount 
 named in the notice; and in such ease, if 
 such owner or lessee fail or refuse within 
 the time aforesaid to pay for such lead 
 ore or mineral delivered or offered to be 
 delivered to him as aforesaid at the said 
 price, then in that event the said person 
 or persons who dug and mined the same 
 shall thereupon acquire an absolute title 
 to such lead ore or mineral, and. may 
 thereupon dispose of the same to any 
 person or in any manner he or they may 
 choose. (R.S8S. 1899, § 8769.) 
 
 See. 8412. Sale of ore.—All lead ore 
 or other mineral, dug or mined in or 
 upon the lands of any person in this state, 
 shall be deemed and held to be the abso- 
 lute property of the owner or lessee of 
 such lands, except in cases it is modified, 
 changed or transferred by express con- 
 
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 tract, and any person who shall unlaw- 
 fully sell or convert to his own use, or 
 remove or dispose of, or in any manner 
 make away with or conceal any such ore 
 or mineral, so as to deprive the owner 
 thereof of the same, shall be deemed 
 gcuilty of grand or petit larceny, accord- 
 ing to the value of such ore or mineral. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8770.) 
 
 Sec. 8413. Injunction or restraining 
 orders—notice of application to dissolve. 
 No injunction or restraining order shall 
 be granted by any court or by any judge 
 thereof to enjoin or restrain the work- 
 ing of any mine or mines, or in any man- 
 ner to interfere with the same, except 
 upon notice first being given to the person 
 working or operating said mine or mines, 
 and sought to be enjoined or restrained, 
 which notice shall be served by delivering 
 to such person a copy thereof, or by leav- 
 ing a copy thereof at his usual place of 
 abode with a member of the family over 
 the age of fifteen years, at least five days 
 before the day set for the hearing of the 
 application for the injunction; and the 
 court or judge granting such injunction 
 or restraining order shall have the power 
 upon good cause being shown, to dis- 
 solve, vacate or modify any such injune- 
 tion or restraining order at any time af- 
 
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 ter the same shall have been granted, 
 whether in term time or vacation: Pro- 
 vided, that the party applying to such 
 court or judge to disolve, vacate or mod- 
 ify any such injunction or restraining 
 order shall give due notice to the opposite 
 party of such intended application. (R. 
 S. 1899, § 8771.) 
 
 See. 8414. Affidavit of course of drift 
 and order to be made.— When any owner, 
 tenant or sub-tenant of a lot or lots or 
 tract of land, shall file with any justice 
 of the peace within the county in which 
 said lot or lots or tract of land may be 
 situated his or her affidavit, or the affi- 
 davit of any other creditable person for 
 them, stating that from knowledge, in- 
 formation or belief, the party or parties 
 owning, controlling or working the ad- 
 joining lot or lots or tract of land, and 
 upon which said party or parties are 
 sinking shafts, mining, excavating and 
 running drifts, and that said drifts in 
 which said parties are digging, mining 
 and excavating mineral ore or veins of 
 coal extend beyond the lines and bound- 
 aries of said lot or lots or tract of land, 
 owned, controlled or worked by them, 
 and have entered in and upon the prem- 
 ises of the party or parties making said 
 affidavit, or for whom.-said affidavit is 
 
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 made, the justice of the peace, after first 
 being tendered his lawful fees, shall issue 
 his written order and deliver or cause the 
 same to be delivered to the county sur- 
 veyor or his deputy, commanding him 
 after his reasonable fees have been tend- 
 ered, to proceed without delay to survey 
 said drift by entering any and all shafts 
 upon said lot or lots or tract of land that 
 he (the surveyor) may see fit, for the 
 ‘purpose of ascertaining the course and 
 distance of said drift or drifts, and to 
 locate the same upon the surface. (R. 8. 
 1899, § 8772.) 
 
 Sec. 8415. Order to be read.—The 
 surveyor shall, before entering upon said 
 duty, read said order to the party or 
 parties owning, controlling or working 
 any shaft or shafts on said lot or lots or 
 tract of land. (R. 8S. 1899, § 8773.) 
 
 Sec. 8416. Refusal to obey order a 
 misdemeanor.—If said party or parties 
 owning, controlling or working said shaft 
 or shafts on said lot or lots or tract of 
 land shall refuse, hinder or prevent said 
 county surveyor or his deputy and his 
 assistant from entering said shaft or 
 shafts or drifts, to make the survey so 
 ordered by the justice of the peace, and 
 every person so offending shall, on con- 
 viction, be adjudged guilty of a misde- 
 
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 meanor, and punished by imprisonment 
 in the county jail for a term of not ex- 
 ceeding one year, or by a fine not exceed- 
 ‘ing three hundred dollars, or by both 
 said fine and imprisonment. (R. S. 
 
 1899, § 8774.) 
 
 - See. 8417. Owner or lessee shall drain 
 mine, etc.— When any person owning any 
 real estate in this state, or any person or 
 persons having a leasehold therein for 
 the purpose of mining for lead or zine 
 ore thereon by lease from such owner, 
 Shall open such real estate for mining 
 purposes, and shall permit any person or 
 persons other than their agents, servants 
 or employes to enter and dig or mine for 
 lead or zine ores thereon, and shall make 
 any rule or contract whereby any-pump- 
 rent or royalty is reserved unto said land 
 owner or lessee for the drainage of the 
 land so mined, and shall fail or refuse to 
 drain any such land or mining lot to the 
 full depth to which the laborers are 
 working or seeking to work, but prevent- 
 ed by water, then and in such event, 
 such owner or lessee thereof shall not 
 be entitled to collect or retain any pump 
 rent or royalty so reserved as aforesaid 
 for any ores taken from said mine or lot, 
 below the depth of the water level in 
 said mine or lot, so long as said owner or 
 
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 lessee shall fail to refuse to drain said 
 mine, nor shall such land owner or lessee 
 be entitled to forfeit any right to hold 
 and mine said lot so long as work is pre- 
 vented therein by reason of water accum- 
 ulated therein, on account of any failure 
 to drain said mine by such land owner or 
 lessee, any rule, contract or agreement 
 to the contrary notwithstanding. (R.S. 
 1899, § 8775.) 
 
 Sec. 8418. Scrapping for ore prohib- 
 ited, etc.—penalty.—It shall be unlawful 
 for any person to take or in any manner 
 . receive or obtain any lead or zine ore by 
 by means of gleaning or culling, common- 
 ly called ‘‘serapping,’’ without first hav- 
 ing obtained the written consent of the 
 person having possession and control of 
 the mine from which said ores are to be 
 taken; and it shall be unlawful for any 
 person or company of persons to pur- 
 chase, or in any manner to receive any 
 lead or zine ore which may have been 
 stolen or taken by means of culling 
 or gleaning, commonly ealled ‘“‘scrap- 
 ping,’ without such written consent as 
 aforesaid, knowing that said ores have 
 been so stolen or taken without written 
 consent, as herein provided. Any person 
 violating the provisions of this section, 
 on conviction, shall be punished by fine 
 
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 of not more than one hundred dollars, or 
 by imprisonment in the county jail not 
 more than one year, or by both such fine 
 and imprisonment, and the inadequacy 
 of the price paid for such ore, the quan- 
 tity purchased or received, and the fact 
 that the person from whom such. orés 
 may have been purchased or received is 
 not regularly engaged in running or 
 operating mines for such ores, may be 
 shown, and shall be received as prima 
 facie evidence of guilty knowledge of the 
 person so purchasing or receiving such 
 ores: Provided, however, that nothing 
 herein contained shall be so construed as 
 to prevent any person from gleaning, cul- 
 ling or scrapping for ores about his own 
 mine, nor to prevent any person from 
 purchasing such ores when the same have 
 been obtained in such manner by the 
 owner or operator of any such mine. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8776.) 
 
 Sec. 8419. Indemnity bond required 
 to mine in certain cities, etc.—violation a 
 misdemeanor — penalty.—No person, 
 company or corporation shall hereafter 
 sink a shaft, mine, tunnel, excavate or 
 drift for coal, or take out any coal of 
 any kind within the corporate limits or 
 designated boundaries of any city, town 
 
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 or village in this state containing one 
 thousand inhabitants or more, without 
 having first applied and filed, and have 
 approved, an indemnity bond as herein- 
 after provided for; and any person or 
 persons violating the provisions of this 
 section, and any member or stockholder 
 or officer of any company or corporation 
 who shall violate the provisions of this 
 section, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and on conviction thereof 
 shall be punished by fine of not less than 
 five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in 
 the county jail for not less than six 
 months, or by both such fine and im- 
 prisonment. (R.S. 1899, § 8777.) 
 
 Sec. 8420. Notice of intention to mine 
 —publication required.—Every person, 
 company or corporation desiring to carry 
 on any of the mining operations provided 
 for in the preceding section shall give 
 at least thirty days’ notice of such inten- 
 tion by notice printed and published in 
 Some newspaper printed in such town, 
 city or village wherein such mining. oper- 
 ations are supposed to be carried on, or 
 if no newspaper be printed in such city, 
 town or village, then in some newspaper 
 printed in said county, or if no newspaper 
 be printed in such county, then by writ- 
 ten or printed handbills posted up in six 
 
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 public places in the city, town or village 
 wherein such mining operations are sup- 
 posed to be carried on. Such notice shall 
 contain accurate description of the local- 
 ity where such mining operations are to 
 be carried on, giving the number of lot 
 and block, and shall also state the nature 
 of such mining operations, and name 
 some day of the term of the next circuit 
 court in said county, thereafter to be 
 holden, when such person, company or 
 corporation will offer for filing and ap- 
 proval tHe indemnity bond hereinafter 
 providedfor. (R.S. 1899, § 8778.) 
 
 - Sec. 8421. Permit from mayor and 
 council—petition to circuit court.—On 
 the day mentioned in such notice, the 
 persons, company or corporation pro- 
 posing to carry on such mining operations 
 must have a permit, in writing, signed by 
 the mayor and a majority of the city 
 council of the town, city or village in 
 which such mining is proposed, before a 
 permit shall be granted by a circuit court, 
 and shall present their petition to said 
 circuit eourt, setting out the locality 
 of the proposed mines and the nature 
 and extent of the proposed mining 
 operations, and shall also file with such 
 petition the title papers of such person 
 
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 or company or corporation to the lands 
 on which such mining operations are 
 proposed to be earried on, showing 
 either the fee simple title of such land, 
 in such company, or the right to mine 
 beneath or insuch land, and shall also 
 contain the names of all persons to be 
 offered as security upon the mining bond 
 of such persons, company or corporation, 
 and shall pray the court to fix and ap- 
 prove the mining bond of such persons 
 or corporation. (R. S. 1899, § 8779, 
 amended, Laws 1909, p. 695.) ° 
 
 Sec. 8422. Testimony on application 
 —bond, etc.—time granted.—The court 
 may, upon such application, hear testi- 
 mony upon all the matters involved 
 in such application including testimony 
 upon the solvency and responsibility of 
 the sureties offered, and may hear testi- 
 mony from any parties interested in the 
 lots and lands in the neighborhood of such 
 proposed mining operations, and if the 
 courtis satisfied that the proposers own 
 the land or mining privileges under the 
 land described in their petition, the court 
 shall fix the amount of the bond to be 
 given by such proposers, such bond to be 
 in no case for less than one thousand dol- 
 lars; and upon the giving and approval of 
 such bond so fixed by the court, the court 
 
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 shall enter its order authorizing the min- 
 ing operations specified in said petition, 
 and upon the localities therein named, and 
 not elsewhere, for the space of two years, 
 unless in the meanwhile revoked. (R.S. 
 1899, § 8780.) 
 
 See. 8423. Bond required.—Such bond 
 shall be signed by the proposers and by 
 not less than two sureties, to be approved 
 by said court, residents of the county 
 wherein such mining is to be carried on, 
 and shall be made payable to the state 
 of Missouri, and conditioned that the 
 principal in said bond shall carry on the 
 mining operations proposed in the peti- 
 tion in a careful manner, and the said 
 parties shall not mine, dig, excavate nor 
 take coal nor earth from or under any land 
 or lots than that described in the said 
 bond, and shall pay all damages that 
 may be sustained by any and all persons 
 by reason of the violation of any of the 
 conditions of said bond, and any and all 
 charges, fines and penalties that may be 
 levied, assessed against or imposed upon 
 the said proposers, their agents, servants, 
 stockholders, officers or employes, by 
 reason of any violation of the condi- 
 tions of said bond or any of the provi- 
 sions of section 8419 to 8427, inclusive. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8781.) 
 
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 Sec. 8424. Written permission of prop- 
 erty owner—violation, misdemeanor— 
 penalty, fines, etc.—Any person or per- 
 sons who shall in person or by their ser- 
 vant, agent or employe, dig, excavate, 
 mine, tunnel or drift upon or under 
 the lands or lots of another, within 
 the incorporate limits or designated 
 boundaries of any city, town or village in 
 this state, and every officer and stock 
 holder that shall either authorize or per- 
 mit its servants, agents or employes to 
 dig, excavate, mine, tunnel or drift upon 
 or under the lands or lots of another 
 within such limits or boundaries of such 
 city, town or village, without the written 
 - permission of the owner or owners of such 
 land or lots, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and shall be punished on 
 conviction, for every such offense, by 
 fine of not less than five hundred dollars, 
 with costs, which fine and costs, if not 
 paid within five days after conviction, 
 may be sued for and recovered against 
 the parties and sureties on the mining 
 bond of such persons, company or cor- 
 poration liable for such acts, in a suit 
 upon such bond, in the name of the state 
 of Missouri, to the use of the county in 
 which such offense is committed; 
 such fine, when collected, shall be paid, 
 
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 one-half to the owner of the property 
 injured by such offense and the other 
 half into the school fund of such county; 
 but no such conviction shall be a bar to 
 the owner of such property prosecuting 
 a suit on said bond to his own use for the 
 damages sustained by’ any such offense. 
 Every such conviction, whether appealed 
 from or not, shall work a forfeiture of the 
 authority to mine granted such person, 
 company or corporation lable, and they 
 shall not proceed further with the oper- 
 ations, except by making application and 
 giving a new bond as in the first instance. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8782.) 
 . See. 8425. Costs attending notice— 
 The costs attending the giving notice, 
 making application and receiving mining 
 privileges shall all be paid by the person, 
 company or corporation making the 
 Same, and no such privilege shall take 
 effect until all such costs be paid. (R.S. 
 1899, § 8783.) 
 
 See. 8426. Diagram of mines, etc., to. 
 be filed in court.—At each term of the 
 circuit court, during the continuance of 
 any mining license, every person, com- 
 pany or corporation carrying on such 
 mining operations shall, at their own 
 expense, caused to be made by the county 
 surveyor of the county where such mines 
 
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 are located, and filed. with the court, 
 under oath of such surveyor, a complete 
 and true diagram: of such mines, showing 
 with reference to the boundaries of such 
 mines, and the lots and lands of neigh- 
 boring owners, the extent of such mines, 
 their drifts, tunnels and excavations, 
 giving the length and breadth of 
 each drift, bank and tunnel, so as 
 to fully inform the court and. parties 
 in interest of the extent. and character 
 of such mining operations. Such plats 
 and diagrams shall remain on file with 
 the clerk of such court, and shall not be 
 removed by any one from the files of 
 such court. Any failure to file the dia- 
 gram and plat herein provided for, or 
 to make such diagram show all the par- 
 ticulars herein provided for, shall work 
 a forfeiture of the mining privileges of 
 such person, company or corporation, 
 which forfeiture the court shall, on the 
 motion of any party in interest, declare 
 on three days’ notice to the party hold- 
 ing such license. or privilege. (R. S. 
 1899, § 8784.) 
 
 See. 8427. Application of certain sec- 
 ‘tions to mining companies.—In no ease 
 shall the eight preceding sections of this 
 article be so.construed as to apply to 
 persons, Gompanies or corporations en- 
 
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 gaged in mining for lead, zine or other 
 ores or minerals, except coal. (R. S. 
 1899, § 8785.) 
 
 Sec. 8428. Mining under public high- 
 ways and railroads prohibited.—No per- 
 son or persons, firm or association of 
 persons, company or corporation shall, 
 within this state, mine or excavate be- 
 neath the surface of any public highway 
 or railroad right of way, in such manner 
 as to cause the surface of the ground 
 over which such publie highway or rail- 
 road track is constructed to cave in. 
 (Laws 1909, p. 436.) 
 
 Sec. 8429. Penalty for violation.— 
 Any person, firm, company, association 
 or corporation, violating the provisions 
 of the preceding section, and any officer, 
 agent or receiver of any firm, company, 
 association or corporation, or any mem- 
 ber of the same, or any individual, found 
 guilty of a violation thereof, shall be 
 fined not less than one hundred dollars 
 nor more than five hundred dollars, or 
 be imprisoned in the county jail not to 
 exceed one year, or suffer both penalties. 
 (Laws 1909, p. 4386.) 
 
 Sec. 8430. Screening coal before 
 weighing, prohibited.—It shall be unlaw- 
 fa for any mine owner, lessee or operator 
 of coal mines in this state, employing 
 
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 miners at bushel or ton rates, or ot 
 quantity, to pass the output of c¢ 
 mined by said miners over any screen 
 any other device which shall take ¢ 
 part from the value thereof before 
 
 -same shall have been weighed and d 
 eredited to the employe sending 
 
 same to the surface, and accounted 
 
 at the legal rate of weights as fixed by 
 laws of Missouri; and no employe wit 
 the meaning of this section shall 
 deemed to have waived any right ace 
 ing to him under this section by 2 
 contract he may make contrary to 
 
 provisions thereof. And any provisi 
 contract or agreement between m 
 owners or operators thereof, and | 
 miners employed therein, whereby 1 
 provisions of this section are waiv 
 modified or annulled, shall be void a 
 of no effect, and the coal sent to the s 
 face shall be accepted or rejected; anc 
 accepted, shall be weighed in accordaz 
 with the provisions of this section, a 
 right of action shall not be invalidat 
 by reason of any contract or agreeme: 
 and any owner, agent or operator of 2 
 coal mine in this state who shall kno 
 ingly violate any of the provisions 
 this section shall be deemed guilty o 
 misdemeanor, and, upon _ convicti 
 
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 hall be punished by a fine of not less 
 828han two hundred dollars nor more than 
 oresive hundred dollars for each offense, or 
 18%) y imprisonment in the county jail for. 
 Sy period of not less than sixty days nor 
 WaYnore than six months, or by both such 
 SON Sne and imprisonment; proceedings to be 
 Pers nstituted in any court having competent 
 Witl irisdiction. “(R. 8. 1899, § 8786.) 
 nea’ See, 8431. Weighman shall take oath, 
 or Tatc., penalty.—The weighman employed 
 48 ‘at any mine shall prescribe an oath or af- 
 OVe'Grmation before a justice of the peace, 
 roa. other officer authorized to administer 
 (Le sths, to do justice between employer - 
 Bund employe, and to truly and correctly 
 R'weigh the output of coal from the mines 
 or ‘as herein provided. The miners em- 
 of | ployed by or engaged in working for any 
 a&€ mine owner, operator or lessee of any 
 USS ‘mine in this state shall have the privilege, 
 ©! if they desire, of employing at their own 
 SU expense a check weighman,who shall 
 amt have like equal rights, powers and priv- 
 10! ileges in the weighing of coal as the reg- 
 9 ular weighman, and be subject to the 
 re same oath and penalties as the regular 
 4’ weighman. Said oath or affirmation 
 * shall be kept conspicuously posted in the 
 — weigh-office, and any weigher of coal or 
 p ‘person so employed, who shall knowingly 
 
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 violate any of the provisions of this arti- 
 cle, or any owner, operator or agent of 
 any coal mine in this state who shall for- 
 bid or hinder miners employing or using a 
 check-weighman as herein provided, or 
 who shall prevent or willfully obstruct 
 any such ,check-weighman in the dis- 
 charge of his duty, shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 shall be punished by.a fine of not less than 
 one hundred dollars nor more than five 
 hundred dollars for each offense, or by 
 imprisonment in the county jail for a 
 period not less than thirty days nor more 
 than ninety days, or by both such fine 
 and imprisonment, proceedings to be 
 instituted in any court having competent 
 jurisdiction. Whenever the coal mine 
 inspector shall be satisfied that the pro- 
 visions of this section have been willfully 
 violated, it shall be his duty to forth- 
 with inform the prosecuting attorney of 
 any such violation, together with the 
 all the facts in his knowledge, and the 
 prosecuting attorney shall thereupon 
 investigate the charge so preferred, and 
 if he be satisfied that the provisions of 
 this section have been so violated, it 
 shall be his duty to prosecute the person 
 or persons guilty thereof. (R. S. 1899, 
 § 8787.) : 
 
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 See. 8432. Penalty for using false 
 scales.—Every owner, agent or operator 
 of any coal mine in the state, employing 
 miners at bushel or ton rates, shall pro- 
 vide at such mine or mines accurate and 
 suitable scales of standard manufacture 
 upon which shall be weighed all coal 
 coming out of such mine or mines; said 
 scale or seales to be located at a reason- 
 able distance from the point where the 
 coal is delivered to the surface opening 
 of the mine or mines, and in no ease shall 
 said scale or seales be located at a greater 
 distance from said surface opening of the 
 mine or mines than one hundred feet. 
 Any owner, agent, operator, person; or 
 persons having ér using any scales or 
 seale for the purpose of weighing the 
 product of the miners’ labor, and so 
 arranges or constructs said scale or 
 scales, or by any contrivance therewith 
 connected causes the fraudulent weighing 
 of such coal or said product, or. who shall 
 knowingly resort to, permit or employ any 
 “person or means whatsoever, by reason 
 of which said product of the mine is not 
 correctly weighed and reported in accord- 
 ance with the true weight and the provi- 
 sions of this article,shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon convic- 
 
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 tion for each and every offense, be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not less than two hun- 
 dred dollars, nor more than five hundred 
 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 
 jail for a period not to exceed ninety 
 days, or by both such fine and imprison- 
 ment; proceedings to be instituted in any 
 court of competent jurisdiction. (R. S. 
 1899, § 8788.) 
 
 See. 8433. Shall apply to loaders in 
 certain mines.—The manner of weighing, 
 as hereinbefore provided for, shall apply 
 to the class of workers in mines known 
 as loaders, engaged in mines wherein the 
 mining is done by machinery, whenever 
 the workmen are under contract to load 
 eoal by the bushel, ton, or any quantity 
 the settlement of which is had by weight. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8789.) 
 
 Sec. 8434. Inspector to test scales.— 
 The coal mine inspector of this state 
 shall be ez officio inspector of weights, 
 measures and scales used at coal mines, 
 and he is hereby empowered and it shall 
 be his duty to test the scales used to 
 weigh coal mined in the mines of this 
 state at least every six months, to ascer- 
 tain whether or not such seales correctly 
 measure the weight of such coal, and if 
 defects or irregularities are found, such 
 scales which prevent correct weights and 
 
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 measurements the inspector shall call 
 the attention of the mine owner, agent 
 or operator to said defects and direct 
 that the same be at once properly ad- 
 justed and corrected. If the owner, agent 
 or operator of any coal mine in this 
 state, shall refuse to allow such inspector 
 to properly test the scales used at such 
 mine or mines, or shall fail or refuse to 
 put such scales in proper adjustment and 
 condition, so that the same shall correct- 
 ly weigh the coal mined after being noti- 
 fied by said inspector so to do, such own- 
 er, agent or operator shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 
 viction thereof, shall be fined not exceed- 
 ing five hundred dollars, or be confined 
 in the county jail not exceeding six 
 months, or both, in the discretion of 
 the court, and it shall be the duty of the 
 prosecuting attorneys in the respective 
 counties to prosecute any person, firm 
 or corporation violating the provisions 
 of this section the same as in other mis- 
 demeanor eases. (R. S. 1899, § 8790.) 
 
 Sec. 8435. Wages to be paid semi- 
 monthly—penalty.—All persons or cor- 
 porations engaged in or operating any 
 mines, stone or granite quarries in this 
 state shall pay their employes once in 
 every fifteen days in lawful money of the 
 
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 United States, and at no pay day shall 
 there be withheld ‘any of the earnings 
 due any such employe: Provided, per- 
 sons or corporations operating coal 
 mines may withhold not to exceed five 
 days of the earnings of employes. Any 
 such operator or employer failing or re- 
 fusing to pay his employes, their agents 
 or assigns or any one duly authorized to 
 collect such wages as in this section pro- 
 vided, shall become immediately lable 
 to such employe, his agent, assigns or 
 anyone authorized to collect such wages 
 for an amount double the sum due such 
 employes at the time of such failure or 
 refusal to pay the amount due, to be 
 recovered by civil action in any court of 
 competent jurisdiction within this state. 
 (R. 8. 1899, § 8791 amended, Laws 1908, 
 p. 246.) 
 
 Sec. 8436. Miners’ and employes’ 
 lien.—All miners and other employes 
 engaged in the work of developing and 
 opening up coal mines, the sinking of 
 shafts, the construction of slopes or 
 drifts, the driving of entries, mining coal, 
 and for all other labor performed in and 
 about coal mines, shall have, as security 
 for such work performed a lien upon all 
 the property of the person, owner, agent, 
 firm, or corporation owning, construct- 
 
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 Relating to Mines and Mining. 31. 
 
 ing or operating such mine or mines, 
 used in construction or operation thereof, 
 including real estate, building, machin- 
 ery, pit cars, tracks, mules, scales, and 
 all other personal property, to satisfy in. 
 full the amount due for such labor per- 
 formed; the same to be.enforeed. and 
 secured upon the same general terms and 
 after the manner of procedure in grant- 
 ing mechanics’ liens.. (R. .S. 1899, § 
 8792.) LaAGY : 
 
 Sec. 8437. Miners not to be worked 
 more than eight hours in a day.—It shall 
 be unlawful for any person or corpora- 
 tion engaged in mining for minerals, coal 
 or any valuable substance, or making 
 excavations beneath the surface of the 
 earth while searching for minerals, coal 
 or any valuable substance, to work their 
 hands or employes at such labor or in- 
 dustry longer than eight hoursin aday of 
 twenty-four hours, andit is hereby de- 
 clared that eight hours shall constitute a 
 day for alllaborers or employes engaged 
 ‘in the kind of labor or industry afore- 
 said. (R. S. 1899, § 8793, amended, 
 Laws 1901, p. 211.) 
 
 Sec. 8438. Penalty——Any person or. 
 persons or corporation who shall violate 
 any of the provisions of the preceding | 
 section shall, on conviction, be fined in a: 
 
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 sum not less than twenty-five nor more 
 than five hundred dollars. (R. S. 1899, 
 § 8794, amended, Laws 1901, p. 211.) 
 
 Sec. 8439. Miners to be brought to 
 surface for meals.—On and after the 
 passage and taking effect of this section, 
 ‘all owners, lessees and operators of any 
 mine in this state, the work of which is 
 located below the surface of the ground, 
 entrance to which is had by any shaft, cut 
 or tunnel, shall allow the laborers and 
 miners in their several mines to come to 
 the surface of the ground for the purpose 
 of eating their noonday meal or any other 
 meal for which, under the rules of any 
 mine a time is set apart; and that at least 
 one hour shall be allowed any miner or 
 laborer for that purpose, and for rest 
 after he reaches the surface of the ground, 
 and before re-entering into any mine 
 where he or she may be engaged as 
 laborer or miner. Also, that the owner, 
 lessee or operator of any mine in this 
 state is hereby required to run his cage 
 or hoisting apparatus to the surface of 
 the ground for the purpose of earrying 
 any such miner or laborer, who may be 
 going to or returning from any such 
 aforementioned meal and rest, free of 
 cost to any such miner or laborer. (R. S. 
 1899, § 8795.) 
 
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 _ See. 8440. Violation of preceding sec- 
 
 tion—penalty.— Any owner, lessee or 
 operator of any mine in this state who 
 shall fail or refuse to carry out any . 
 of the provisions of section 8439 of this 
 article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, 
 shall be fined in a sum of not less than one 
 dollar nor more than twenty-five dollars; 
 and each failure or refusal shall consti- 
 tute a separate offense. .(R. S. 1899, § 
 8796. ) ee ) 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 Inspection of Mines and Safety of 
 Miners 
 
 Sec. 8441. Maps of mines to be pre- 
 pared, etc.—The owner, agent or opera- 
 tor of each and every mine in this state, 
 employing ten.or more men, shall make 
 or cause to be made, at the discretion of 
 the inspector or other person acting in 
 that capacity, an accurate map or plans 
 of the workings of such mine and each 
 and every vein thereof, showing the gen- 
 eral inclination of the strata, together 
 with any material deflections of the said 
 workings and the boundary lines of said 
 mine, and deposit a true copy of said map 
 
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 _or plan with the clerk of the county 
 court of each county wherein may be 
 located the said mine; which said map or 
 plan shall be so filed or deposited within 
 three months after the time when this 
 article shall take effect, and a ‘copy 
 of such map or plan shall also be 
 kept for inspection at the office 
 of the said mine; and during the month 
 of January of each and every year after 
 this article shall have taken effect, the 
 said owner, agent or operator shall fur- 
 nish the inspector and the clerk of the 
 county court as aforesaid with a state- 
 ment, and a further map or. plan of the 
 progress. of the workings of such mine, 
 continued from the last report to the end 
 of the month of December, next preced- 
 ing; and the inspector shall correct his 
 map or plan of said workings in accord- 
 ance with the statement and map or plan 
 thus furnished; and when, any mine is 
 worked out or abandoned, that fact shall 
 be reported to the inspector, and the 
 map or plan of such mine in the office of 
 the clerk of the county court shall be care- 
 fully corrected and verified. (R. 8S. 4899, 
 § 8797.) 
 
 Sec. 8442. Inspector to make map if 
 owner fails—cost.— Whenever the owner, - 
 agent or operator of any mine shall neg- 
 
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 leet, fail or refuse to furnish the said 
 inspector and clerk as aforesaid with a 
 statement, the map or plan or addition 
 thereto, as provided in section 8441 of 
 this article, at the times and in the man- 
 ner therein provided, the said inspeetor 
 is hereby authorized to eause an accurate 
 map or plan of the workings of such mine 
 to be made at the expense of the said 
 owner, agent or operator, and the cost 
 thereof may be reeovered by law from 
 said owner, agent or operator, in the same 
 manner as other debts, by suit in the 
 name of the inspector and for his use. 
 (R. 8S. 1899, § 8798. ) 
 
 See. 8443. Escapement shafts, how 
 constructed, etc.—It is unlawful for any 
 owner, agent or operator of any coal mine 
 ‘ worked by shaft to employ or permit any 
 person to work therein unless there are 
 to every seam of eoal worked in each 
 mine at least two separate outlets, separ- 
 ated by natural strata of not less than 
 three hundred feet in breadth, by which 
 shafts or outlets distinct means of ingress 
 and egress are always available to the 
 persons employed in the mine; but it is 
 not necessary for the two outlets to be- 
 long to the same mine if the persons 
 employed therein have safe, ready and 
 available means of ingress and egress 
 
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 by not less than two openings; the com-: 
 munication or roadway between the: 
 two openings, or the two openings fur-., 
 nished by a connection between two-dis-, 
 tinct mines, shall at all times be. kept, 
 clean and of such width and_ height. 
 as to make the same safe and available: 
 for a speedy exit in case of accident. 
 The escapement shaft shall be fitted with 
 safe and available appliances by which 
 the persons employed in the mine may 
 readily escape in case an accident occurs 
 deranging the hoisting machinery. at the. 
 main outlets, and such means’or appli- 
 ances for escape, shall always be kept in ° 
 a safe condition, and in no ease shall an 
 
 air shaft with a ventilating furnace at 
 
 the bottom be construed to be an ascape- 
 
 ‘ment shaft within the meaning of this. 
 section. The cage or cages and other. 
 means of egress shall at all times be avail- 
 able for the persons employed when there 
 is no second outlet: To all other coal. 
 mines, whether slopes or drifts, two such 
 
 openings or outlets must be provided 
 
 within twelve months after shipments 
 
 of coal have commenced from such mine, 
 
 and in case such outlets are not provided . 
 as herein stipulated, it shall not be law-. 
 ful for the owner, agent or operator of 
 
 such slope or drift to permit more. than. 
 
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 five persons to work therein at any one 
 time. (R.S. 1899, § 8799.)- 
 
 _ See. 8444. Violation of preceding sec- 
 tion—penalty— Any owner, ag nt or 
 operator of a coal mine in this state violat-. 
 ing the provisions of the preceding. sec- 
 tion. shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
 meanor, and for each offense, on convic- 
 tion, shall be fined not less than fifty or 
 more than two hundred: dollars, or by 
 imprisonment in the county jail not less 
 than three or more than twelve months, 
 or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 (R. 8. 1899, § 8800.) 
 
 “See. 8445. Ventilation—fire damp, 
 etc.—The owner, agent or operator of 
 every coal mine, whether operated by 
 shaft, slope or drift, shall provide and 
 maintain for every such mine a good and 
 sufficient amount of ventilation for such 
 men and animals as may be employed 
 therein, the amount of air in circulation 
 to be in no ease less than one hundred 
 cubic feet for each man, and six hundred 
 cubie feet for each animal, per minute, 
 measured at the foot of the downcast, 
 and the same to be increased at the dis- 
 eretion: of- the inspector according to the 
 character and the extent of the workings, 
 or to the amount of powder used in 
 blasting; and said volume of air shall be 
 
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 forced and cireulated to the face of every 
 working place throughout the mine, so 
 that such mine shall be free from standing 
 powder-smoke and gases of every kind. 
 all doors set on main entries for the pur- 
 pose of conducting the ventilation shall 
 be so constructed and hung as to close 
 of themselves when opened, and shall be 
 made sufficiently tight to effectually 
 obstruct the air-currents. In all mines 
 employing fifty or more men, a boy or 
 trapper shail be kept in attendance upon 
 such doors, to see that they are kept 
 securely closed, and the air-eurrents 
 properly controlled. Whenever the in- 
 spector shall find men working without 
 sufficient air, or under any unsafe condi- 
 tions, he shall first give the operator a 
 reasonable notice to rectify the same, and 
 upon his refusal to do so, may himself 
 order them out until said portions of said 
 mine shall be put in proper’ condition. © 
 The ventilation required by this section 
 may be produced by any suitable ap- 
 phanees, but in case a furnace shall be 
 used for ventilating purposes, it shall be 
 built in sueh a manner as to prevent the 
 communication of fire to any part:of the 
 works, by lining the upcast with in- 
 combustible material for a sufficient dis- 
 tance upfrom said furnace. (R.S. 1899, 
 § 8801.) 
 
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 Sec. 8446. Ventilation—separate air-. 
 currents required.—Every owner, agent 
 or operator of every coal mine, whether 
 _ operated by shaft, slope or drift, employ- 
 ing more than fifty persons in such mine, 
 shall on and after the first day of Sep-. 
 tember, 1905, in providing and main- 
 taining the ventilation required by 
 section 8445, split the volume of air cir- 
 culating in such mine into separate cur- 
 rents so that not more than fifty persons 
 working in such mine shall be supplied 
 by the same current of air. (Laws 1905, 
 p; 237.) 
 
 Sec. 8447. Certain mines to be ex- 
 amined daily.—All mines generating ex- 
 plosive gas in which men are employed 
 shall be examined every morning by a 
 practical and duly authorized agent of 
 the proprietor, to determine whether 
 there are any dangerous accumulations 
 of gas, or lack of proper ventilation, or 
 obstructions to roadways, or any other 
 dangerous conditions; and no person shall 
 be allowed to enter the mine until the 
 examiner shall have reported all of the 
 conditions safe for beginning work. Such 
 examiner shall make a daily record of the 
 condition of the mine, in a book kept for 
 that purpose, which shall be open at all 
 times to the examination of the inspector, 
 
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 The currents of air in mines shall be so 
 split as to give a separate current to at 
 at least every fifty men at work, and the 
 mine inspector shall have diseretion to 
 order a separate current for a smaller 
 number of men, if special conditions 
 render it necessary. (R.S. 1899, § 8802, 
 amended, Laws 1907, p. 362. ) 
 
 Sec. 8448. Experienced persons to 
 handle explosives, etc.—It shall be un- 
 lawful for any operator or agent of a coal 
 mine to employ persons underground 
 whose duties may involve contact with 
 inflammable gases, or the handling of 
 explosives, who have not had experience 
 in such duties, unless all such employes 
 are placed under the immediate charge 
 and control of some competent and ex- 
 perienced miner, so as to secure the safety 
 of other persons employed in the same 
 mine. (R. 8S. 1899, § 8803.) 
 
 Sec. 8449. Blasting holes to be 
 charged, how.—It shall be unlawful for 
 coal miners in any mine to charge a 
 blasting hole with loose powder, or other- 
 wise than with a properly constructed 
 cartridge; and in dry and dusty mines, 
 it shall be unlawful to load cartridges in 
 the mines except with a powder-can 
 constructed fer the purpose. (R. S. 
 1899, § 8804.) 
 
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 Sec. 8450. Traveling ways through 
 shafts, etc—The bottom of every shaft 
 shall be supplied with a traveling way, 
 to enable men to pass from one side of 
 the shaft to the other, and without pass- 
 ing under or over the cages. All sumps 
 shall be securly planked over so as to 
 prevent accidents to men. (R. S. 1899, 
 § 8805.) 
 
 Sec. 8451. Penalty for offenses.— 
 Every owner, agent or operator of any 
 _ coal mine in this state, employing five or 
 more persons, violating any of the pro- 
 visions of sections 8445 to 8450, imelu- 
 sive, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
 meanor, and on conviction shall be fined 
 for each offense not less that fifty nor 
 more than two hundred dollars, or by 
 imprisonment in the county jail not less 
 than three nor more than twelve months, 
 or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8806. ) 
 
 Sec. 8452. Oils for illuminating pur- 
 poses.—Only a pure animal or vegetable 
 oil, or other oil as free from smoke as a 
 pure animal or vegetable oil, and not the 
 produet or by-product of rosin, and 
 which shall, on inspection, comply with 
 the following test, shall be used for illum- 
 inating purposes in the mines of this 
 state. All such oil must be tested at 
 
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 60 degrees. Fahrenheit. The specific 
 gravity of the oil must not exceed 24 
 degrees Taghabue. The test of the oil 
 must be made in a glass jar one and five- 
 tenths inches in diameter by seven inches 
 in depth. If the oil to be tested is below 
 45 degrees. Fahrenheit, in temperature, 
 it must be heated until it reaches about 
 80 degrees Fahrenheit; and should the oil 
 be above 45 degrees and below 60 de- 
 grees Fahrenheit, it.must be raised to a 
 temperature of about 70 degrees Fahren- 
 heit, when, after being well shaken, it 
 should be allowed to cool gradually to a 
 temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit - 
 before finally being tested. In testing 
 
 the gravity of the oil, the Tagliabue 
 hydrometer must be, when _ possible, 
 read from below, and. the last line which : 
 appears under the surface of the oil shall 
 be regarded as the true reading. In case. 
 the oil under test should be opaque or 
 turbid, one-half of the capillary attrac- 
 ‘tion shall be deemed and taken to be the . 
 true reading. Where the oil is tested 
 under difficult circumstances, an allow- 
 ance of one-half degree may be made for 
 possible error in parallax, before con- 
 demning the oil for use in the mine. All 
 oil sold to be used for illuminating pur-- 
 poses in the coal mines of this state shall . 
 
Relating to Mines and Mining. -43 
 
 be contained in barrels or packages, 
 
 ‘branded conspicuously with the name of 
 
 the. dealer, the specific gravity of the oil, 
 
 and the date of shipment. (R. 8S. 1899, 
 § 8807.) : 
 
 See. 8453. Penalty.—Any person or 
 persons, firm or corporation which ships 
 any oil contained in any barrel or barrels, 
 package or packages, which are not 
 branded as. prescribed in section 8452, 
 said oil to be used for illuminating 
 purposes in coal or other mines, and any 
 person or persons, firm or corporation 
 which: sells any oil other than that pre- 
 scribed in section 8452, to be used for 
 illuminating purposes in coal mines, and 
 any person or persons, firm or corpora- 
 tion having in charge the operation or 
 running of any coal mine, which, in a 
 - mine under his or its charge, uses or 
 permits the use of any oil other. than that 
 prescribed in section 8452, and any miner 
 or mine employe who uses, with a knowl- 
 edge of its character, in any coal mine in 
 this state, any other oil than that pre- 
 seribed in section 8452, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 
 viction shall be fined for each offense not 
 less than fifty nor more than two 
 hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in 
 the county jail not less than three nor 
 
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 more than twelve months, or by both 
 such fine and imprisonment. (R. S. 
 1899, § 8808.) 
 
 Sec. 8454. Inspector to inspect oils.— 
 It shall be the duty of the state coal mine 
 inspector, in person or by some person 
 designated by him, to inspect oils being 
 used by miners to determine if the grade 
 is of the standard described in section 
 8452 of this article—said inspection to be 
 made at the pleasure of the coal mine 
 inspector, or a person designated by him. 
 Should he find the grade of oil used below 
 the grade fixed in section 8452, he shall 
 notify the owner, agent or operator of 
 the mine, and also notify the miners using 
 the oil, that the quality is inferior, and 
 if change is not made as soon as practical, 
 he shall notify the prosecuting attorney 
 of the county in which the mine is locat- 
 ed, giving him all the facts, and the prose- 
 cuting attorney shall forthwith proceed 
 to enforce the provisions of the two pre- 
 ceding sections. (R. S. 1899, § 8809.) 
 
 See. 8455. Bore-holes.—The owner, 
 agent or operator shall provide that 
 bore-holes shall be kept twenty feet in 
 . advance of the face of each and every 
 working place, and, if necessary, on 
 both sides, when driving toward an aband- 
 oned mine and part of a mine suspected 
 
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 to contain inflammable gases or to be in- 
 undated with water. (R. S. 1899, §. 
 8810. ) 
 
 See. 8456. Signaling—hoisting—cer- 
 tain miners not to work, etc.—The 
 owner, agent or operator of every mine 
 operated by shaft, shall provide suitable 
 means of signaling between the bottom 
 and the top thereof, and shall also pro- 
 vide safe means of hoisting and lowering 
 persons in a cage covered with boiler 
 iron, so as to keep safe, as far as possible, 
 persons descending into and ascending 
 out of said shaft; and such cage shall be 
 furnished with guides to conduct it on 
 slides through such shaft, with a sufficient 
 break on every drum to prevent accident 
 in ease of the giving out or breaking of 
 machinery; and such cage shall be fur- 
 nished with spring catches, intended and 
 provided, as far as possible, to prevent 
 the consequences of cable breaking or 
 the loosening or disconnecting of the 
 machinery; and no props or rails shall be 
 lowered in a cage while men are descend- 
 ing into or ascending out of said mine: 
 Provided, that the provisions of this sec- 
 tion in relation to covering cages with 
 boiler iron shall not apply to coal mines 
 less than one hundred feet in depth, 
 where the coal is raised by horse power. 
 
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 No male person under the age of fourteen 
 years, or female of any age, shall be 
 permitted to enter any mine to work 
 therein; nor shall any boy under the age 
 of sixteen years, unless he can read or 
 write, be allowed to work in any mine. 
 Any party or person neglecting or re- 
 fusing to perform the duties required to 
 be performed by the provisions of this 
 article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and punished by a fine in the 
 discretion of the court trying the same, 
 subject, however, to the limitations as 
 provided by section 8463 of this article. 
 (R. 8. 1899, § 8811, amended, Laws 1905, 
 p. 237.) 
 
 Sec. 8457. Person in control of hoist- 
 ing machinery, etc.—No owner, ‘agent 
 or operator of any mine operated by shaft 
 or slope shall place in charge of any en- 
 gine whereby men are lowered into or 
 hoisted out of the mines any but an expe- 
 rienced, competent and sober person not 
 under eighteen years of age; nor 
 shall such engineer be permitted to 
 operate the hoisting machinery unless 
 he be located in such close proximity to 
 the engine and drum as will enable him 
 to continuously have supervision and 
 control of both engine and drum; and 
 no person shall be permitted to ride upon 
 
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 ——_—_— 
 
 a loaded cage or wagon used for hoisting 
 purposes in any shaft or slope, and in 
 no case shall more than twelve persons 
 ride on any cage or car at any one time; 
 nor shall any coal be hoisted out of any 
 mine while persons are descending into 
 such mine, and the number of persons 
 to ascend out of or descend into any 
 mine on one cage shall be determined by 
 the inspector; the maximum number so 
 fixed shall not be less than four nor 
 more than twelve, nor shall be lowered 
 or hoisted more rapidly than five hundred 
 feet tothe minute. (R.S. 1899, § 8812.) 
 
 Sec. 8458. Semi-weekly inspection of 
 hoisting equipment—record of same.— 
 Every owner or operator, or the agent of 
 such owner or operator of any coal mine 
 in this state, who shall employ twenty- 
 five or more miners or mine laborers, 
 where any mechanical device is or shall 
 be used for the lowering or hoisting of 
 men into or out of such mine, shall have 
 some experienced and practical person to 
 inspect all ropes, cages, safety-catches, 
 shive-wheels and drum brakes at least 
 twice in each week while such mine 
 shall be in operation. And every such 
 owner or operator, or the agent of such 
 owner or operator of such mine, is hereby 
 required to furnish a book of suitable 
 
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 kind in which the results of each inspec- 
 tion are hereby required to’ be entered 
 and recorded by the person making such 
 inspection as soon and as often’as the 
 same shall be made, always reciting in 
 such book also the day and date of such 
 inspection; and such book shall be kept 
 at sueh mine, and shall, on all working 
 days, be open for the information of 
 all employes of such mine. (Laws 1909, 
 p. 695.) ; a 
 
 Sec. 8459. Penalty.—LEvery owner or 
 operator, or the agent of such owner or 
 operator of any coal mine in this state 
 of the kind mentioned in the next pre- 
 ceding section, who shall fail to comply 
 with the provisions.of said section, shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, 
 . upon conviction thereof, shall be punish- 
 ed by a fine of not less than twenty-five 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dol- 
 lars, or by imprisonment in the county 
 jail not less than thirty days nor more 
 than ninety days, or by both such fine 
 and imprisonment, for each and every 
 separate offense. And every failure to 
 have made such inspection and to have 
 entered and recorded the results of such 
 inspection as provided in section 8458 
 on any day when the same should have 
 been done, shall-constitute'a separate 
 offense. (Laws 1909, p. 695.) 
 
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 Sec. 8460. Lowering and hoisting 
 miners.—The owner, agent or operator 
 of all coal mines employing twenty-five 
 or more men, shall cause a competent 
 person to be stationed at the top of the 
 shaft, and a competent person to be 
 stationed at the bottom of the shaft, 
 whose duties shall be to answer all sig- 
 nals for the lowering or hoisting of men 
 in the shaft, and to keep watch over, 
 and control of, such signals while men 
 are being lowered or hoisted in the shaft; 
 the persons so appointed to look after 
 said signals shall be at their posts of duty 
 at least thirty minutes before the hoist- 
 ing of coal has commenced in the morn- 
 ing, and shall remain after the hoisting 
 of coal has ceased in the evening at least 
 thirty minutes. Whenever eight persons 
 shall present themselves at the bottom 
 of the shaft and after having finished 
 their day’s work, or otherwise having 
 been prevented from working, an empty 
 cage shall be furnished the same on which 
 to ascend. And any owner, agent of 
 operator of coal mines in this state, who 
 shall knowingly violate any provisions | 
 of this section, shall be deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 shall be punished by a fine of not less 
 than one hundred dollars, nor more than — 
 
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 three hundred dollars for each offense, 
 or by imprisonment in the county jail 
 for not less than thirty days nor more 
 than ninety days, or by both such fine 
 and imprisonment. (R.S. 1899, § 8813, 
 amended, Laws 1909, p. 696.) 
 
 Sec. 8461. Boilers—fencing entrances 
 —signals, etc.—All boilers used in gen- 
 erating steam in and about coal mines 
 shall be kept in good order, and the 
 owner, agent or operator, as aforesaid, 
 shall have the said boiler examined and 
 inspected by hydrostatic pressure and 
 warm water, by a competent boiler- 
 maker or other qualified person, as often 
 as once every six months, and the result 
 of every such examination shall be certi- 
 fied in writing to the mine inspector; 
 and the top of each and every shaft, 
 and the entrance of each and every im- 
 mediate working vein, shall be securly 
 fenced by gates properly covering and 
 protecting such shaft and _ entrance 
 thereto; and the entrance to every aband- 
 oned slope, air or other shaft, shall be 
 securely fenced off; and every steam 
 boiler shall be provided with a proper 
 steam gauge, water gauge and safety 
 valve, and all underground self-acting 
 or engine planes or gangways on which 
 coal cars are drawn and persons travel, 
 
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 shall be provided with some _ proper 
 means of signaling between the stepping 
 places and the end of said planes or 
 gangways, and sufficient places of refuge 
 at the sides of such planes or gangways 
 shall be provided at intervals of not 
 more than twenty feet apart. (R. S. 
 1899, § 8814.) 
 
 Sec. 8462. Accidents—duty and pow- 
 er of inspector, etc.— Whenever loss of life 
 or serious personal injury shall occur by 
 reason of any explosion or of any accident 
 whatsoever, in or about any mine, it shall 
 be the duty of the person having charge 
 of such mine to report the facts thereof 
 without delay to the state mine inspect- 
 or, and if any person is killed thereby, 
 to notify the coroner of the county also, 
 or in his absence or inability to act, any 
 justice of the peace of said county; and 
 the said inspector shall, if he deem it 
 necessary from the facts reported, im- 
 mediately go to the scene of said accident 
 and make suggestions and render such 
 assistance as he may deem necessary 
 for the safety of the men; and the in- 
 spector shall investigate and ascertain 
 the cause of such explosion or accident 
 and make a report thereof, which he 
 shall preserve with the other records of 
 his office; and to enable him to make 
 
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 such investigation, he shall have the 
 power to take depositions, compel the 
 attendanee of witnesses and administer 
 oaths or affirmations to them; and the 
 cost of such investigation shall be paid 
 by the county court of the county 
 in which such aceident shall have oc- 
 curred, in the same manner as costs 
 of coroners’ inquests are now paid. 
 And the failure on the part of the 
 person having charge of any mine in 
 which any such accident may have 
 oceurred to give notice to the inspector 
 or coroner, as provided for in this section, 
 shall subject such person to a fine of not 
 less than one hundred nor more than 
 three hundred dollars, to be recovered 
 of him in the name of the state of Mis- 
 souri, before any justice of the peace of 
 such county wherein the mine is situate 
 and the accident occurred; and such fine, 
 when collected, shall be paid into the 
 county treasury for the use and benefit 
 of said county. (R. S. 1899, § 8815.) 
 Sec. 8463. Fines, how recovered.—In 
 all eases in which punishment is not pro- 
 vided for by fine under this article, for 
 a breach of any of its provisions, the fine 
 for the first offense shall not be less than 
 fifty or more than two hundred dollars, 
 and for the second offense not less than 
 
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 two hundred nor more than five hundred 
 dollars, to be recovered in any court of 
 the state having competent jurisdiction. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8816.) 
 
 Sec. 8464. Bureau of mines estab- 
 lished, etc.—There is hereby created a 
 department, to be known as the bureau 
 of mines, mining and mine inspection, 
 with its office located at the state capitol. 
 The governor shall, for the inspection of 
 coal mines, appoint an inspector and one 
 assistant to the same, both of whom shall 
 have been practical miners in coal mines. 
 For lead, zine and mines other than coal 
 mines, the governor shall appoint two 
 inspectors, both of whom shall have had 
 practical experience in lead and zine 
 mining; one of said inspectors shall be 
 appointed to serve in the western lead 
 and zine district, and the other inspector 
 in the eastern lead and zine district. 
 Said district in the lead and zine field to 
 to be divided from north to south through 
 the state by a line which will border the 
 western boundary of Cooper and Webster 
 counties. Neither of the above-named 
 inspectors shall be interested in any mine, 
 and each shall receive a salary of eigh- 
 teen hundred dollars per annum, and 
 there shall also be allowed and paid out 
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 traveling expenses of the inspectors. 
 The inspectors so appointed shall have 
 authority to appoint a secretary of the 
 bureau. of mines, mining and mine in- 
 spection, who, in addition to his other 
 qualifications, shall be a competent 
 draughtsman, and receive a salary of 
 eighteen hundred dollars per annum. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8817, amended, Laws, 
 1903, p. 245, Laws 1907, p. 365.) 
 
 Section 8464a. Every person, firm 
 or corporation engaged in the mining 
 or production within this state, of lead, 
 zine, coal, shale, silicate or calamine, 
 shall within thirty days after the expir- 
 ation of the quarter-annual period 
 ending on the last day of March, 1917, 
 and within thirty days after the ending 
 of each quarter-annual period thereafter, 
 file with the chief mine inspector and the 
 state treasurer a statement, under oath, 
 on forms to be prescribed and furnished 
 in triplicate by the chief mine inspector, 
 showing the total number of tons of 
 coal, clay, shale, lead concentrates or 
 galena, zine ore or concentrates thereof, 
 lead carbonate or concentrates thereof, 
 zinc carbonate or concentrates thereof, 
 zine silicate or calamine or concentrates 
 thereof, sold, shipped or otherwise dis- 
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 quarter-annual period; and shall at the 
 same time pay to thestate treasurer mine 
 inspection fees as follows: On all lead 
 concentrates or galena, three cents per 
 ton; on all zine ore or concentrates there- 
 of, three cents per ton; on all lead carbon- 
 ate or concentrates thereof, one and one- 
 half cents per ton; on all zine carbonate 
 or concentrates thereof, one and one-half 
 cents per ton; on all zine silicate or cala- 
 mine, or concentrates thereof, one and 
 one-half cents per ton; on all coal, two 
 mills per ton; on all clay, two mills per 
 ton; on all shale, one mill per ton. 
 Section 3. The lack of a provision 
 for the payment of mine owners and 
 operators for the service of mine inspec- 
 tion creates an emergency within the 
 meaning of the Constitution, and this 
 act shall, therefore, take effect and be in 
 force from and after its passage and ap- 
 proval. Approved March 22, 1917. 
 Sec. 8465. Health and safety of min- 
 ers—report to the governor—report of 
 operators to inspectors.—The inspectors 
 . provided for in this article shall see that 
 every necessary precaution is taken to 
 secure the health and safety of the work- 
 men employed in any of the mines of the 
 state, that the provisions and require- 
 ments provided for in this article be 
 faithfully observed and obeyed, and the 
 
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 penalties of the law enforced. They shall 
 also collect and tabulate in their report, 
 to be made to the governor on the 15th 
 day of April of each year, the extent of 
 the workable mining lands in the state 
 by counties; also, the manner of mining, 
 whether by shaft, slope, drift or other- 
 wise, the number of mines in operation, 
 the number of men employed therein, 
 the amount of capital invested and the 
 amount and value of all mine products. 
 And in order that the provisions of this 
 section may be faithfully enforced, it 
 shall be the duty of every mine owner, 
 operator or lessee doing business of a 
 mining nature, embracing lead, zine, 
 coal, copper, iron or other minerals 
 within this state, to report to the inspect- 
 ors within 20 days following the Ist day 
 of January of each year, the name of the 
 person, firm, corporation or company 
 doing a mining business, where the mines 
 aré located, the number of acres owned 
 or leased of minable lands, the capital 
 invested in lands and plant, the number 
 of shafts, drifts, slopes or open cuts 
 operated, the number of men employed 
 in and about the mines, average wages 
 paid employes, the amount of mineral 
 produced, the average price received for 
 said product and all such other informa- 
 tion pertaining to mining as may be re- 
 
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 quired by the inspectors; coal mine oper- 
 ators reporting to the coal mine inspector 
 and the operators of all other mines to 
 the inspector of lead, zine and other 
 mines upon blanks which the inspectors 
 are hereby authorized to furnish for 
 such purpose; it shall also be the duty of 
 every mine owner or operator doing a 
 mining business in this state, who sells 
 or disposes of such mining property to 
 another person, firm, company or cor- 
 poration, to furnish to the purchaser 
 or purchasers thereof, a certified state- 
 ment of the amount and value of all 
 mine products, the average number of 
 men employed and the average wages 
 paid, for that portion of the calen- 
 dar year that such mining property 
 has been operated; and such purchaser 
 or purchasers shall preserve and incor- 
 porate the same in the annual report 
 required under this act; it shall also be 
 the duty of all the operators to require of 
 their sublessees a monthly statement of 
 the average number of men employed 
 each month and the average wages paid 
 them, that correct accounting may be 
 made of the same in the annual report 
 required; it shall also be the duty of all 
 persons, companies or corporations open- 
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 promptly report the same to the in- 
 spector. (R. S. 1899, § 8818, amended, 
 Laws 1901, p. 212.) ° 
 
 Sec. 8466. Penalty for violation of 
 preceding section—When any owner, 
 operator or lessee of any mine within this 
 state shall fail or refuse to comply with 
 the provisions of section 8465 of this 
 article, such offender shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con- 
 viction thereof, shall be fined in a sum 
 not less than one hundred dollars nor 
 more than three hundred dollars for each 
 offense, and the state mine inspector is 
 hereby authorized to certify such failure 
 or refusal to the county prosecuting at- 
 torney, in which county the offense was 
 committed, whose duty it shall be to 
 prosecute such offender or offenders. 
 (Laws 1901, p. 212.) 
 
 Sec. 8467. Inspector may enter mines 
 at any time, etc.—It shall be lawful for 
 the inspector provided for in this article 
 to enter, examine and inspect any and 
 all mines and machinery belonging there- 
 to, at all reasonable times, by day or by 
 night, but so as not to obstruct or hinder 
 the necessary workings of such mine, 
 and the: owner, agent or operator of 
 every such mine is hereby required to 
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 entering, examination and inspection; 
 and if the said: owner, agent or operator 
 aforesaid shall refuse to permit such in- 
 spection, or to furnish the necessary fa- 
 cilities for such entry, examination and 
 inspection, the inspector shall file his 
 affidavit setting forth such refusal before 
 the judge of the circuit court in said 
 county in which said mine is situated, 
 either during the term of court or during 
 vacation, and obtain an order on such 
 owner, agent or operator so refusing as 
 aforesaid, commanding him to permit 
 and furnish such facilities for the inspec- 
 tion of such mine, or to be adjudged to 
 stand in contempt of court and punished 
 accordingly; and if the said inspector 
 shall, after examination of any mine and 
 the works and machinery pertaining 
 thereto, find the same to be worked con- 
 trary to the provisions of this article, 
 or unsafe for the workmen therein em- 
 ployed, said inspector shall, through 
 the circuit attorney of his county, or any 
 attorney in case of his refusal to act, 
 . acting in the name and on behalf of the 
 state, proceed against the owner, agent 
 or operator of such mine, either separ- 
 ately or collectively, by injunction, 
 without bond, after giving at least two 
 days’ notice to such owner, agent or 
 
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 operator; and said owner, agent or oper- 
 ator shall have the right to appear before 
 the judge to whom application is made, 
 who shall hear the same on affidavits 
 and such other testimony as may be 
 offered in support as well as in opposi- 
 tion thereto; and if sufficient cause ap- 
 pear, the court, or judge in vacation, 
 by order, shall prohibit the further work- 
 ing of any such mine in which persons 
 may be unsafely employed contrary to 
 the provisions of this article, until the 
 same shall have been made safe and the 
 requirements of this article shall have 
 been complied with; and the court shall 
 award such costs in the matter of said 
 injunction as may be just; but any such 
 proceedings so commenced shall be 
 without prejudice to any other remedy 
 permitted by law for enforcing the pro- 
 visions of this article. (R. S. 1899, § 
 8819.) 
 
 See. 8468. Inspectors to examine— 
 safety of employes—powers of inspect- 
 ors.—The state mine inspectors of lead 
 mines, zine mines and mines other than 
 coal are hereby authorized, empowered 
 and directed to thoroughly inspect all 
 underground excavations in all lead 
 mines, zine mines and mines other than 
 coal, as often as the inspector may deem 
 
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 proper after the passage and approval 
 of this act, to ascertain the condition 
 of said underground exeavations with 
 respect to the safety of all employes 
 working in such underground excava- 
 tions; and, if after such examination, 
 the inspectors shall find that the safety 
 of the employes engaged in working in 
 such excavations is imperiled by reason 
 of there being only one shaft or outlet 
 by which a distinct means of ingress 
 and egress is always available to such 
 employes, it shall be the duty of such 
 inspectors to immediately notify the 
 owner, agent or operator of such mine, 
 in writing, specifying the particular un- 
 derground excavation so found to be un- 
 safe or dangerous, and direct the owner 
 agent or operator to, within thirty days 
 after receiving such notice, commence to 
 sink another shaft or outlet for such un- 
 derground excavation, at some point to 
 be agreed to by such inspector,’ and 
 prosecute the sinking of such shaft or ° 
 outlet with all due diligence until the 
 same is completed. And the state mine 
 inspectors aforesaid shall have power, 
 if they deem it for the safety of the em- 
 ployes, to order all employes engaged 
 in working in such underground exca- 
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 gerous to quit work until such other 
 shaft or outlet shall have been com- 
 pleted, or until further notified by such 
 inspector. (Laws 1907, p. 364.) 
 
 See. 8469. Inspection—ventilation.— 
 The state mine inspectors for lead mines, 
 zine mines and other mines other than 
 coal, are hereby authorized, empowered 
 and directed to thoroughly inspect all 
 underground excavations in all lead 
 mines, zinc mines and mines other than 
 coal, as often as the inspector may deem 
 proper, from and after the passage and 
 approval of this act, and ascertain the 
 condition of such underground excava- 
 tions with respect to the health of em- 
 ployes engaged in working in such un- 
 derground exeavations; and, if after such 
 examination, the inspector shall find that 
 the health of the employes is impaired 
 by reason of their not being sufficient 
 circulation of air or ventilation for such 
 employes, it shall be the duty of such in- 
 spector to immediately notify the owner, 
 agent or operator of such mine, in writ- 
 ing, specifying the underground excava- 
 tion so found to be unhealthful, and di- 
 rect such owner, agent or operator of 
 ' sueh mine to, within fifteen days after 
 receiving such written notice, commence 
 to drill a sufficient number of air holes 
 
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 for such underground excavation, at 
 some point or points to be agreed to by 
 such inspectors, and prosecute the drill- 
 ing of such air hole or holes with all 
 due diligence until they are completed 
 and the inspectors shall have power, if 
 they deem it for the interest of the em- 
 ployes, to order all employes engaged 
 in working in ,such underground exca- 
 ations so affected by said notice to quit 
 work until such air hole or holes shall 
 have been completed, or until further 
 notified by such inspector. (Laws 1907, 
 p. 364 .) ‘ 
 
 - Sec. 8469a,. \ Water lines to be main- 
 tained for sprinkling in certain mines 
 generating dust—duties of inspectors, 
 etc.—The state mine inspectors for lead 
 mines, zine mines, and other mines, oth- 
 er than coal, are hereby authorized, em- 
 powered and directed to thoroughly in- 
 spect all underground excavations in all 
 such mines, as often as the inspector or 
 either of his deputies may deem proper, 
 - for the purpose of ascertaining or dis- 
 covering in the air in any such mine or 
 mines the presence of dust in such quan- 
 tities as shall be injurious to the health of 
 employes engaged in working in such un- 
 derground excavation; and upon finding 
 dust in the air of any such mine in such 
 
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 quantities as shall tend to injure the 
 health of the employes of such mine, such 
 inspector or deputy inspector shall im- 
 mediately notify the owner, managing 
 agent or operator of such mine, in writ- 
 ing, specifying the underground excava- 
 tion so found to contain dust particles as 
 aforesaid in the air thereof, and such own- 
 er, agent or operator of such mine shall 
 within fifteen days after receiving such 
 written notice, provide, install, equip, 
 and thereafter at all times, maintain in 
 such mine an independent water line, 
 fully equiped and in good serviceable 
 working order and repair, leading up to. 
 the face of any and all drifts where such 
 dust is produced, or so close to the face 
 of said drifts so that by the use of suit- 
 able hose or sprinkling attachments to be 
 supplied by the owner or owners of said 
 mine, the mineral or earth in and adjoin- 
 ing the face of the drift or drifts of such 
 mine can be sprinkled or wet by water 
 from said pipe line; thereupon and there- 
 after every person drilling, squibbing or _ 
 blasting in said mine shall keep the face, 
 surface and drill holesinsaid drift or drifts 
 wet or moist by the use of water from 
 said water line to such an extent and in 
 such a way as shall prevent, as far as 
 possible, any dust raising from the work- 
 
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 ing of any such face or from the drilling 
 ‘“blowing’’ or ‘‘shooting’’ of any hole or 
 holes; and the ground boss in charge of 
 the underground in any such mine, so 
 equipped with a water line, shall require 
 all ground or dirt after being shot or 
 blasted to be thoroughly wet or sprinkled 
 to such an extent as shall prevent, as far 
 as possible, any dust from arising there- 
 from while the employes are at work 
 therein. 
 
 Sec. 8469b. Penalty.—Every owner 
 or part owner of any such mine and every 
 employe of the owner of any such mine, 
 who shall violate any of the provisions of 
 this act, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor and upon conviction thereof 
 shall be punished by a fine of not less than 
 five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Approved March 23, 1915. 
 
 Sec. °8469b. Dressing rooms to be 
 provided — equipment — inspection — 
 penalty.—It shall be the duty of every 
 owner or operator of any zine or lead 
 mine in the state of Missouri, to provide 
 and maintain a room or building of suf- 
 ficient size and dimensions and properly 
 equipped, for the use of employes of said 
 mines, as a dressing room and for the 
 purpose of changing, keeping and storing 
 their clothes’ and dinner pails. Said 
 
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 room shall be equipped with lockers with 
 lock and key, and said employes:shall be 
 permitted to store their clothing and din- 
 ner pails in said lockers. Sufficient 
 washing conveniences shall be provided 
 in said room or building for the use of 
 said employes and sufficient benches or 
 seats shall be provided for the use 
 of employes in said room or building; 
 and said room or building shall at all 
 times be properly heated and shall be 
 kept in a clean and sanitary condition. 
 It shall be the duty of the mine inspector 
 to see that the provisions of this section 
 are properly enforced. Any person, 
 firm or corporation operating a lead or 
 zine mine in this state failing to comply 
 with the provisions of this section shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con- 
 viction thereof shall be fined in a sum of 
 not less than five dollars or more than 
 twenty-five dollars. 
 
 Approved March 23, 1915. 
 
 See. 8469c. Sanitary drinking de- 
 vices.—Every owner, agent or operator . 
 of any lead or zine mine in this state, em- 
 ploying ten or more men, shall provide 
 sanitary drinking devices for the use of 
 their employes. 
 
 Approved Mareh 23, 1915. 
 
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 See. 8470. Penalty.—Every person, 
 owner, agent or operator of any lead 
 mines, zinc mines or mines other than 
 coal, who shall violate any of the pro- 
 visions of this act, shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 ‘thereof shall be punished by imprison- 
 ment in the county jail for a term not 
 exceeding six months, or by a fine not 
 less than one hundred dollars for each 
 offense, or by both such fine and im- 
 prisonment. (Laws 1907, p. 364.) 
 
 See. 8471. In case of injury or death, 
 right of action.—For any injury to per- 
 sons or property occasioned by any vio- 
 lation of this article or failure to com- 
 ply with any of its provisions, a right of 
 action shall accrue to the party injured 
 for any direct damages sustained there- 
 by; and in ease of loss of life by reason 
 of such violation or failure as aforesaid, 
 a right of action shall accrue to the 
 widow of the person so killed, his lineal 
 heirs or adopted children, or to any per- 
 son or persons who were, before such 
 loss of life, dependent for support on the 
 person or persons so killed, for a like 
 recovery of damages sustained by rea- 
 son of such loss of life or lives; Provided, 
 that all suits brought under this article 
 shall be commenced within one year 
 
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 after any cause of action shall have ac- 
 crued under this article and not after- 
 ward; and provided further, that any per- 
 son entitled to sue under this section 
 for loss of life or lives may recover any 
 sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8820.) 
 
 Sec. 8472. Rules of working mines— 
 penalty.—Any miner, workmen or other 
 person who shall knowingly injure any 
 water-gauge, barometer, air-course or 
 brattice, or shall obstruct or throw open 
 any airways, or carry any lighted lamps 
 or matches into places that are worked 
 by the light of safety lamps, or shall 
 handle or disturb any part of the ma- 
 chinery of the hoisting engine, or open 
 a door to a mine and not have the same 
 closed again, whereby danger is pro- 
 duced, either to the mine or those at 
 work therein, or who shall enter into 
 any part of the mine against caution, or 
 who shall disobey any order given in 
 pursuance of this article, or who shall 
 do any willful act whereby the lives and 
 health of persons working in the mine, 
 or the security of the mine or miners, or 
 the machinery thereof, is endangered, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and, upon conviction thereof, shall be 
 punished by fine or imprisonment, at 
 
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 the discretion of the court. (R.S. 1899, 
 § 8821.) 
 
 Sec. 8473. Prop timbers.—The owner, 
 agent or operator of any mine shall keep 
 a sufficient supply of timber; when re- 
 quired to be used as props, so that the 
 workmen may at all times be able to 
 properly secure the said workings from 
 caving in, and it shall be the duty of the 
 owner, agent or operator to send down 
 all such props when required. (R. S. 
 1899, § 8822.) 
 
 Sec. 8474. Method of working on the 
 room and pillar plan.—The owner, agent 
 or operator of any coal mine in this 
 state, employing five or more persons, 
 if said mine is worked on the room and 
 pillar plan, shall cause the work in such 
 mine to be prosecuted in the following 
 manner, and none other, to-wit: Two 
 entries must be given parallel for the 
 ingress and egress of the air, and cross- 
 cuts must be made at intervals not to 
 exceed fifty feet apart, and no rooms, 
 entries or other openings shall be al- 
 lowed to start inside of the last cross- 
 eut until the next one be made; and fur- 
 ther, that it shall be unlawful for any 
 owner, operator or agent for any per- 
 son, persons, corporation or company to 
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 out or abandoned rooms or entries in 
 any coal mine to remain open for a 
 period exceeding one month from the 
 date of abandonment of any such room, 
 rooms, entry orentries. Allsuch aband- 
 oned work as designated must be se- 
 curely sealed in such manner as will 
 effectually prevent the escape of all gases 
 or other impurities calculated to vitiate 
 the ventilative current of a mine: Pro- 
 vided, that the sealing of rooms and en- 
 tries herein provided for shall only be 
 required in such mines and places there- . 
 in as the mine inspector shall in his dis- 
 cretion deem necessary for insuring the 
 health and safety of workmen therein. 
 (R. 8S. 1899, § 8823, amended, Laws 1907, 
 p. 363.) 
 
 Sec. 8475. Penalty.—Any owner, agent 
 or operator in charge of any coal mine — 
 worked on the room and pillar plan fail- - 
 ing to comply with the.provisions of 
 section 8474 shall be deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 shall be punished by a fine of not less 
 than one hundred dollars nor more than 
 one thousand dollars, or by imprison- 
 ment in the county jail not less than six 
 months nor more than one year, or by 
 both such fine and imprisonment; and 
 every day that the mine is operated con- 
 
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 trary to the provisions of section 8474, 
 after the owner, agent or operator in 
 charge thereof shall have been convicted 
 for a first offense under section 8474, 
 shall be and constitute a separate and 
 distinct subsequent offense, and shall be 
 punished as such. (R.S. 1899, § 8824.) 
 
 Sec. 8476. Notice to be given by in- 
 spector.—The state coal mine inspector 
 shall, after sections 8474 to 8476, in- 
 clusive, become a law, give notice, in ) 
 writing, to the owner, agent or operator 
 in charge of each coal mine in this state 
 now being worked on the room and pil- 
 lar plan, to conform the working of 
 such mine to the requirements herein- 
 before set out and prescribed; and such 
 owner, agent or operator shall have 
 thirty days in which to comply before 
 being liable to the penalty provided here- 
 in. (R.S. 1899, § 8825.) 
 
 See. 8477. Explosives to be kept in a 
 strong box—shot-firers to be employed. 
 All owners, agents or operators of coal 
 mines shall require of all miners or 
 other persons employed in and about 
 a mine, using gun or blasting powder or 
 other explosives, to have and keep a 
 strong box in which all surplus gun or 
 blasting powder or other explosives in 
 the mine shall be kept, excepting so 
 
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 much as is necessary for immediate use. 
 These boxes shall be kept locked and 
 not opened unless it be to put in or take 
 out powder. Nor must these strong (or 
 powder) boxes be kept nearer than one 
 hundred feet to the place of blasting. 
 And in all dry and dusty coal mines dis- 
 charging light carbonated hydrogen gas, 
 or in mines where the coal is blasted off 
 of the solid, shot-firers must be employed 
 by the operator of said mine or mines, 
 to fire all shots after the employes and 
 other persons have retired from the 
 mine. And all shots prepared by the 
 miner for the extraction of coal from 
 off of the solid, must be so placed, drilled 
 and charged, that the same, when fired, 
 shall perform safely the duty required 
 of such shots; but if the shot-firers find 
 or discover that a drill hole is gripping - 
 too much or that it is drilled too much 
 into (what the miners term) ‘‘the tight,’’ 
 and as may in the judgment of the shot- 
 firers, prove a windy, blown-out or other- 
 wise dangerous shot, said shot-firers 
 shall there and then condemn such shot 
 as too dangerous to fire and pass the 
 same without firing it. It shall also be 
 the duty of the shot-firers to notify the 
 mine foreman as soon as practicable, 
 when the shot is condemned, who shall 
 
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 in turn attract the attention of the miner 
 or miners responsible for the preparation 
 ‘of said condemned shot and said miner 
 or miners shall immediately after re- 
 turning to work provide the necessary 
 remedy to render the said condemned 
 shot harmless. (R. S. 1899, § 8826, 
 amended, Laws 1901, p. 214, Laws 1903, 
 p. 247.) 
 
 Sec. 8478. Penalty. — Any agent, 
 owner or operator of any coal mine in 
 this state violating the provisions of the 
 preceding section shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and for each offense 
 on conviction shall be fined not less than 
 one hundred dollars nor more than two — 
 hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprison- 
 ment in the county jail not less than 
 six months nor more than one year, or 
 by both such fine and imprisonment, 
 proceedings to be instituted in any 
 court having competent jurisdiction. 
 (R. S. 1899, § 8827, amended, Laws 1901, 
 p. 214, Laws 1903, p. 247.) 
 
 - See. 8479. Qualification of miners.— 
 Any person desiring to perform the 
 work of a coal miner and for himself to 
 conduct room, entry or other under- 
 ground mining in coal mines of this 
 state, shall, before being permitted to 
 engage in such work, produce evidence 
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 of a satisfactory nature that he has for 
 one year worked in coal mines with or 
 as a practical miner; such applicant to 
 furnish evidence of his experience and 
 qualifications to the coal mine inspector, 
 or to the person designated by said in- 
 spector to pass upon the competency of 
 such applicant, and until said applicant 
 shall have fully satisfied the coal mine 
 inspector or the party designated by the 
 said inspector at the mine, wherein such 
 employment is sought of his fitness to 
 perform the duties as above mentioned, 
 he shall not be permitted to mine coal 
 unless associated with a practical miner 
 for such length of time as will qualify 
 said applicant to safely for himself and 
 others perform underground work, and 
 any owner, agent or operator of any coal 
 mine in this state who shall knowingly 
 violate any of the provisions of this 
 section shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and upon conviction, shall 
 be punished by a fine of not less than 
 fifty dollars nor more than two hundred 
 dollars for each and every offense, or 
 by imprisonment in the county jail for 
 a period of not less than thirty days nor 
 more than sixty days, or by both such 
 fine and imprisonment, proceedings to 
 
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 be instituted in any court having com- 
 -petent jurisdiction. (R.S. 1899, § 8828, 
 amended, Laws 1901, p. 215.) 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 State Mining Bee Powers and 
 | Duties of. 
 
 (Sees. 8480-8498, both inclusive. ) 
 
 Note—The law creating a State Board 
 of Coal Mining is omitted, for the rea- 
 son that same is inoperative, no board 
 having been appointed since the enact- 
 ment of the law, and no appropriation to 
 defray expenses of board was made. 
 
 DAMAGES: Mining---Fellow Servants. 
 
 See. 5440. Mine operator liable for 
 acts of agents or servants.—That every 
 person, company or corporation operat- 
 ing a Mine or mines in this state pro- 
 ducing lead, zine, coal or other valuable 
 minerals shall be liable for all damages 
 sustained by any agent or servant there- 
 of while engaged in operating such mine 
 or mines, by reason of the negligence of 
 any other agent or servant thereof: 
 ‘Provided, that it may be shown in de- 
 
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 fense that the person injured was guilty 
 of negligence contributing as a proxi- 
 mate cause to produce the injury. (Laws 
 1907, p. 104. 
 
 Sec. 5441. Certain persons declared 
 fellow servants.—That all persons en- 
 gaged in the service of any such person, 
 company or corporation doing business 
 in this state, who are entrusted by such 
 person, company or corporation with the 
 authority of superintendence, control or 
 command of other persons in the em- 
 ploy or service of such person, company 
 or corporation, or with authority to di- 
 rect any other servant in the perform- 
 ance of any duty of such servant, or 
 with the duty of inspection or other 
 duty owing by the master to the ser- 
 vant, are vice-principals of such person, 
 company or corporation, and are not 
 fellow-servants with such employes. 
 (Laws 1907, p. 104.) 
 
 Sec. 5442. Fellow servants defined.— 
 That all persons who are engaged in the 
 common service of such person, com- 
 pany or corporation operating a mine 
 or mines, and while so engaged are work- 
 ing together at the same time and place 
 to a common purpose of the same grade, 
 neither of such persons being entrusted 
 by such person, company or corpora- 
 
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 tion with any superintendence or con- 
 trol over their fellow-employes, are fel- 
 low-servants with each other. (Laws 
 1907, p. 104.) 
 
 Sec. 5443. Certain contracts declared 
 void.—No contracts made between any 
 person, company or corporation so oper- 
 ating such mine or mines and their 
 agents or servants, based upon the con- 
 tingency of the inquiry or death to any 
 such agent or servant, limiting the lia- 
 bility of the employer for any damages 
 under the provisions of this act, shall be 
 valid or binding, but all such contracts 
 or agreements shall be null and void. 
 (Laws 1907, p. 104.) 
 
 Sec. 5444. Certain employes exempt 
 from provisions of act.—Nothing in this 
 act shall be so construed as applying to 
 or including the operation, construction 
 or repairing of concentrating mills, 
 flumes or tramways wholly above ground. 
 (Laws 1907, p. 104.) 
 
 See. 5445. Survival of right of action, 
 in favor of whom, and when.— Whenever 
 any cause of action shall accrue to any 
 agent or servant of any person, com- 
 pany or corporation under an act ‘en- 
 titled ‘‘An act to define the liabilities of 
 mine operators in relation to damages 
 sustained by their employes, and to de- 
 
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 fine who are fellow-servants and who 
 are not fellow-servants, and to prohibit 
 contracts limiting liability under this 
 act,’’ approved May 10, 1907, and death 
 shall ensue to such agent or servant by 
 reason of the negligence provided for 
 in said act, the cause of action shall sur- 
 vive in favor of the widow and minor 
 children of the deceased: Provided, that 
 action therefor shall be brought by the 
 widow within six months after such 
 death, and if she shall fail to bring such 
 action, then within twelve months after 
 such death by such minor children; and 
 provided, further, that recovery in ¢ase 
 of such death shall not exceed the sum 
 of ten thousand dollars. (Laws 1907, p. 
 104, amended, Laws 1909, p. 463.) 
 
 MINES AND.MINING: Inspection of 
 Mines and Safety of Miners—Com- 
 plaints. 
 
 Section 1. Amending article 2, chap- 
 ter 81.— That article 2, of chapter 81, of 
 the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1909, 
 be and the same is hereby amended by 
 adding thereto a new section to be 
 known as section 8467a, and which sec- 
 tion shall read as follows. tek 
 
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 Section 8467a. Inspectors to inspect 
 certain mines, when—complaints to be 
 filed, where.—Whenever the inspectors 
 of lead mines, zine mines or mines other 
 than coal receive a complaint in writing, 
 signed by one or more persons, employed 
 in a lead mine, zine mine or mine other 
 than coal, setting forth that the mine in — 
 which he is employed is being operated 
 contrary to law, and is dangerous in any 
 respect to the health or lives of those 
 employed therein, the inspectors must ex- 
 amine such mine as soon as possible. 
 The names of the persons making such 
 complaint shall not, under any circum- 
 stances, be divulged to any person by 
 said inspector except such action be nec- 
 essary in the administration of justice in 
 the courts of the state. Provided, how- 
 ever, that such complaint shall in all 
 cases set forth the alleged violation of 
 law observed, the nature of the danger 
 existing at the mine, and shall distinctly 
 set forth whether or not any notice of 
 such defect or danger has been given 
 by the complainants, or anyone else, to 
 their knowledge to the superintendent or 
 other person in charge of the mine. If 
 after such inspection, the inspector finds 
 the conditions, in his opinion, dangerous 
 to the health and lives of those em- 
 
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 ployed in such mine, he shall serve a 
 notice in writing, setting forth fully the 
 facts upon which his opinion is based, 
 upon the operator or any person having 
 charge of such mine, and shall thereafter 
 take such steps to remedy such danger 
 
 and to compel compliance with the pro- 
 ' visions of this act, as the inspector could 
 take in any case arising under section 
 8467 of this act. It shall be the duty of’ 
 the inspector to forward every such orig- 
 inal complaint, so received, to the bureau 
 of mines, mining and mine inspection, 
 where it shall be indexed and _ filed 
 among the official papers of the said 
 bureau. 
 
 Approved April 3, 1911. 
 
 MINES AND MINING: Inspection of 
 Mines and Safety of Miners--Ventila- 
 tion. 
 
 Section 1. Inspection — ventilation. 
 That section 8469, article II, chapter 81, 
 Revised Statutes, 1909, relating to in- 
 spection of mines and safety of miners, be 
 and the same is hereby repealed and the 
 following new section enacted in lieu 
 thereof, to be known as section $469, and 
 to read as follows: Section 8469. The 
 state mine inspectors for lead mines, 
 
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 zine mines and mines other than coal, 
 are hereby authorized, empowered and 
 directed to thoroughly inspect all under- 
 ground excavations in all lead mines, 
 zine mines and mines other than coal, as 
 often as the inspector may deem proper, 
 from and after the passage and approval 
 of this act, and ascertain the condition of 
 such underground excavations with re- 
 spect to the health of employes engaged 
 in working in such underground exea- 
 vations; and, if after such examination, 
 the inspector shall find that the health 
 of the employes is impaired by reason of 
 there not being sufficient circulation of 
 air or ventilation for such employes, it 
 shall be the duty of such inspector to 
 immediately notify the owner, agent or 
 operator of such mine, in writing, speci- 
 fying the underground excavations so 
 found to be unhealthful, and direct such 
 owner, agent or operator of such mine 
 to, within fifteen days after receiving 
 such written notice, commence to drill 
 a sufficient number of air holes for such 
 underground excavation, or to sink a 
 shaft to connect with such underground 
 excavation, or to make drift connection 
 with a contiguous mine, at some point 
 or points to be agreed to by such inspec- 
 tor, aS may in the discretion of the in- 
 
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 spector furnish sufficient ventilation for 
 such mine, and to prosecute the work of 
 correcting such defect in ventilation, as 
 directed by the inspector, with all due 
 diligence until completed. And the in- 
 spectors shall have the power, if they 
 deem it for the interest of the employes 
 engaged in working in such underground 
 excavations, so affected by such notice, 
 to require all work and operations in 
 such mine or mines to cease until such 
 defect in ventilation shall have been cor- 
 rected, or until further notified by such 
 inspector. 
 Approved April 3, 1911. 
 
 MINES AND MINING: Inspection of 
 Mines and Safety of Miners. 
 
 Section 1. Inspector may enter at any 
 time, etc.—That section 8467 of article 2 
 of chapter 81 of the Revised Statutes of 
 Missouri for 1909 be and the same is 
 hereby amended by striking out the 
 words, ‘‘or unsafe for the workmen 
 therein employed,’’ occurring in lines 
 seventeen and eighteen, and by inserting 
 after the word ‘“‘article,’’ in the seven- 
 teenth line of -said section, the words 
 “or in a condition dangerous or detri- 
 mental to the life or health of those em- 
 
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 ployed therein, for the same reason or 
 by reason of any defect in timbering, 
 mining, ventilation or sanitation,’’ so 
 that said section, when amended, shall 
 read as follows: Section 8467. Inspee- 
 tor may enter mines at any time, etc.—It 
 shall be lawful for the inspector provided 
 for in this article to enter, examine and 
 inspect any and all mines and machinery 
 belonging thereto, at all reasonable times, 
 by day or by night, but so as not to ob- 
 struct or hinder the necessary workings 
 of such mine, and the owner, agent or 
 operator of every such mine is hereby 
 required to furnish.all necessary facilities 
 for such entry, examination and inspee- 
 tion; and if the said owner, agent or 
 operator aforesaid shall refuse to permit 
 such inspection, or to furnish the neces- 
 sary facilities for such entry, examina- 
 tion and inspection, the inspector shall 
 file his affidavit setting forth such refusal 
 before the judge of the circuit court in 
 said county in which said mine is situ- 
 ated, either during the term of court or 
 during vacation, and obtain an order on 
 such owner, agent or operator so refus- 
 ing as aforesaid, commanding him to per- 
 mit and furnish such facilities for in- 
 spection of such mine, or to be ad- 
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 punished accordingly; and if the inspec- 
 tor shall, after examination of any mine 
 and the works and machinery pertain- 
 ing thereto, find the same to be worked 
 contrary to the provisions of this ar- 
 - ticle, or in a condition dangerous or' 
 detrimental to the life or health of those 
 employed therein, for the same reason’ 
 or by reason of any defect in timbering, 
 mining, ventilation or sanitation, said 
 inspector shall, through the circuit attor- 
 ney of his county, or any attorney in | 
 case of his refusal to act, acting in the - 
 name and on behalf of the state, pro- 
 ceed against the owner, agent or opera- 
 tor of such mine, either separately or 
 collectively, by injunction without bond, 
 after giving at least two days notice to 
 such owner, agent or operator, and said 
 owner, agent or operator shall have the 
 right to appear before the judge to whom 
 application is made, who shall hear the 
 same on affidavits and such other testi-— 
 mony as may be offered in support as 
 well as in opposition thereto; and if . 
 sufficient cause appear, the court, or 
 judge in vacation, by order, shall pro- 
 hibit the further working of any such’ 
 mine in which persons may be unsafely 
 employed contrary to the provisions of. 
 this article, until the same shall have 
 
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 been made safe and the requirements of © 
 this article shall have been complied 
 with; and the court shall award such 
 costs'in the matter of said injunction as 
 
 may be just; but any such proceedings ~ 
 
 so commenced shall be without prejudice 
 
 to any other remedy permitted by law 
 
 for enforcing the provisions of this article. 
 Approved April 3, 1911. 
 
 MINES AND MINING: Inspection of 
 Mines and Safety of Miners--Storing 
 of Explosives. 
 
 Section 1. Quantity of explosives to 
 be stored in mines.—No person, partner- 
 ship or corporation, nor any agent of 
 any such person, partnership or corpora- 
 tion, engaged in mining for lead ore, zine 
 ore or any ore other than coal, shall per- 
 mit any blasting powder or any high 
 explosive containing nitro-glycerine, to 
 be stored in any such mine: Provided, 
 however, that nothing in this section shall 
 be construed to prevent the storing in any 
 such mine of sufficient blasting powder 
 or other high explosive to meet the esti- 
 mated requirements of such mine dur- 
 ing the succeeding twenty-four hours; 
 and provided further, that such temporary 
 
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 within such mine, where its accidental 
 discharge would cut off the escape of 
 miners working therein. 
 
 Sec. 2. Excess explosives to be stored 
 in magazine.—All blasting powder, or 
 other high explosive, in excess of the 
 temporary supply required in such mine 
 as designated in the next preceding sec- 
 tion, shall be stored in a magazine placed 
 not less than three hundred feet distant 
 from any shaft, habitation, public high- 
 way, public railway, or from the bound- 
 ary line of any mining property: Pro- 
 vided, however, that in cases where the 
 location of any mining property makes 
 it impossible to comply with the pro- 
 visions of this section, the state inspector 
 of mines may grant permission, in writ- 
 ing, to the. operator of such mining prop- 
 erty, or such operator’s agent, to place 
 such magazine in some other place on 
 such mining property, if, in the opinion 
 of such inspector, such location shall 
 not be dangerous to the safety of those 
 employed within such mine; and provided 
 further, that every magazine, where pow- 
 der or other high explosive is stored, as 
 provided in this section, shall be ven- 
 tilated. ; 
 
 Sec. 3. Detonators or caps not to be 
 kept with other explosives.—No detona- 
 
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 _tors or explosive caps shall be kept in 
 the same magazine with any blasting | 
 powder or other high explosive. 
 
 See. 4. Explosives not to be prepared 
 _ for firing in magazine.—No person, part- 
 nership or corporation, nor any agent of 
 any such person, partnership or corpora- 
 tion, engaged in mining, as defined in 
 section one of this act, shall permit any 
 blasting powder or other high explosive 
 to be prepared for firing or blasting in 
 ‘any magazine in which such blasting 
 _ powder or other high explosive shall be 
 _ stored. 
 
 Sec. 5. Penalty.—Any person, part- 
 nership or corporation, or the agent of 
 - any such person, partnership or corpora- 
 tion, who shall violate any of the provi- 
 sions of this act, shall be guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor and shall, upon conviction, be 
 fined not more than five hundred dollars 
 and not less than one hundred dollars. 
 Approved March 27, 1911. 
 
 MINES AND MINING: Inspection of 
 
 Mines and Safety of Miners—State 
 Bureau of Mines, etc. 
 
 Section 1. State bureau of mines es- 
 tablished, etc.—That chapter 81, article 
 2, of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 
 
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 1909, be and the same is hereby amended 
 by repealing section 8464 thereof, and 
 by enacting a new section in lieu there- 
 of to be designated as section 8464, and 
 to read as follows: Section 8464. State 
 bureau of mines established, ete.—There 
 is hereby created a department to be 
 known as the bureau of mines, with its 
 office to be located at the state capitol. 
 The governor shall appoint one mine 
 inspector to be designated and known 
 as state chief mine inspector, with office 
 at the state capitol, who shall serve for 
 a term of four years and receive and an- 
 nual salary of $2000.00. The state chief 
 mine inspector so appointed shall ap- 
 point, with the approval of the governor, 
 two coal mine inspectors, each of whom 
 shall have had five years’ practical ex- 
 perience in coal mining, and four lead, 
 zine and other mine inspectors, each of 
 whom shall have had five years’ practical 
 experience in lead and zine mining, and 
 each of the inspectors so appointed shall 
 receive an annual salary of $1800.00, but — 
 in no case shall any such inspector be a 
 person interested in any mine. The state 
 chief mine inspector so appointed shall 
 have authority to appoint a secretary of 
 the bureau of mines, who, in addition to 
 his other qualifications, shall be a com- 
 
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 petent draughtsman, and receive an an- 
 nual salary of $1800.00. The state chief 
 mine inspector and the assistant in- 
 spector so appointed shall be allowed, 
 and the same paid out of the general 
 revenue fund, actual and necessary ex- 
 penses.’ It shall be the duty of the state 
 chief mine inspector so appointed to 
 classify, supervise and direct the work 
 of inspection by the assistant inspectors, 
 who shall, at all times, be amendable to 
 the chief inspector, whose further duty 
 it shall be, to compile and make a re- 
 port to the governor annually on the 
 Ist day of January in accordance with 
 existing laws of the state in reference to 
 mining. 
 
 Sec.2. Emergency—inconsistent acts 
 repealed.—All acts or parts of acts in- 
 consistent with the provisions of this 
 act are hereby repealed. The fact that 
 closer and better inspection is at once 
 needed for the health and safety to the 
 miners, creates an emergency, and this 
 act shall, therefore, take effect and be 
 in force from and after its passage and 
 approval. 
 
 Approved March 25, 1913. 
 
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 MINES AND MINING: Inspection, of 
 Mines and Safety of Miners—Inspec- 
 tors to Post Statements. 
 
 Section 1. Inspectors to post state- 
 ments—condition of mines—number of 
 men to ride in cage—speed.—The state 
 mine inspectors shall post up in some 
 conspicuous place at the top of each 
 Mine visited and inspected by him, a 
 plain statement of the conditions of such 
 mine, showing what in his judgment is 
 necessary for the better protection of 
 the lives and health of the persons em- 
 ployed in such mine; such statement 
 shall give the date of inspection and be 
 signed by the said inspector, and he 
 shall also record a copy of said notice 
 in the book.required to be kept at such 
 mine by section 8458 of the Revised’ 
 Statutes of 1909. He shall also post a 
 notice at the landing used by the men, 
 stating what number of men may be 
 permitted to ride on the cage, car or 
 cars, at one time, while being lowered 
 into or hoisted out of said mine, and at 
 what rate of speed men may be hoisted 
 and lowered on the cage, cars or car as 
 provided for in this act. 
 
 Approved March 25, 1913. 
 
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 LABOR---EMPLOYMENT, HEALTH, 
 SAFETY, STATISTICS: General 
 Provisions for Health and Safety— 
 Protection From Occupational or In- 
 dustrial Diseases—Penalty. 
 
 Section 1. Employer to provide pro- 
 tection to employes from diseases.— 
 That every employer of labor in this state 
 engaged in carrying on any work, trade 
 or process which may produce any ill- 
 ness or disease peculiar to the work or 
 process carried on, or which subjects 
 the employe to the danger of illness or 
 disease incident to such work, trade or 
 - process, to which employes are ex- 
 posed, shall for the protection of all 
 employes engaged in such work, trade 
 or process, adopt and provide approved 
 and effective devices, means or methods 
 for the prevention of such industrial or 
 _ occupational diseases as are incident to 
 
 such work, trade or process. 
 
 Sec. 2. Articles considered dangerous 
 to health The carrying on of any 
 process, or manufacture, or labor in this 
 state in which antimony, arsenic, brass, 
 copper, lead, mercury, phosphorous, 
 zine, their alloys or salts or any poison- 
 ous chemicals, minerals, acids, fumes, 
 vapors, gases, or other substances, are 
 generated or used, employed or handled 
 
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 by the employes in harmful quantities, 
 or under harmful conditions, or come in 
 contact with in a harmful way, are hereby 
 declared to be especially dangerous to 
 the health of the employes. 
 
 Sec. 3. Employes to be furnished 
 with clothing--respirators to be used 
 while at work.—Every employer in this 
 state to which this act applies shall pro- 
 vide for and place at the disposal of the 
 employes so engaged, and shall main- 
 tain in good condition without cost to 
 the employes, working clothes to be 
 kept and used exclusively by such em- 
 ployes while at work and all employes 
 therein shall be required at all times 
 while they are at work to use and wear 
 such clothing; and in all processes of 
 manufacture or labor referred to in this 
 section which are productive of noxious 
 or poisonous dusts, adequate and ap- 
 proved respirators shall be furnished and 
 maintained by the employer in good 
 condition and without cost to the em- 
 ployes, and such employes shall use 
 such respirators at all times while en- 
 gaged in any work productive of nox- 
 ious or poisonous dusts. 
 
 Sec. 4. Employes to be examined 
 monthly by physician.— Every employer 
 engaged in carrying on any process or 
 
Relating to Mines and Mining. 93 
 
 manufacture referred to in section 2 of 
 this act shall, as often as once every eal- 
 endar month, cause all employes who 
 come into direct contact with the poison- 
 ous agencies or injurious processes re- 
 ferred to in section 2 of this act, to be ex- 
 amined by a competent licensed and 
 reputable physician for the purpose of 
 ascertaining if there exists in any em- 
 ploye any industrial or occupational dis- 
 ease or illness or any disease or illness due 
 or incident to the ecaracter of the work 
 in which the employe is engaged. 
 
 Sec. 5. Physician to make report to 
 state board of health—penalty for fail- 
 ure.—It is hereby made the duty of any 
 licensed physician who shall make a 
 physical examination of any employe 
 under the provisions of section 4 of this 
 act, to make within twenty-four hours 
 a triplicate report thereof to the state 
 board of health of the state of Missouri 
 - upon blanks to be furnished by said 
 board upon request, and if any such 
 disease or illness is found, the physician — 
 shall so report, and if any such disease 
 is found, the report shall state the name 
 and address and business of such em- 
 ployer and the nature of the disease in 
 - precise and definite terms of all the dis- 
 eases or illness with which the employe 
 
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 is afflicted and the probable extent and 
 duration thereof, the name and business 
 of employer, and the last place and 
 length of employment: Provided, that 
 the failure of any such physician to re- 
 ceive blanks from the state board. of 
 health for making such a report shall 
 not excuse the physician from making 
 - the report as herein required. Any phy- 
 sician who shall fail to make a report 
 as required by this section shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and 
 upon conviction shall be fined not less 
 than fifty dollars ($50.00), and in each 
 case shall stand committed until such 
 fine and costs are paid unless otherwise 
 discharged by due process of law. 
 
 Sec. 6. Duty of secretary of board of 
 health.—The secretary of the state 
 board of health shall, immediately upon 
 receipt of any report from any physician 
 in accordance with the provisions of 
 section 5 of this act, transmit a copy 
 thereof to the state factory inspector, 
 and a copy to the superintendent of the 
 factory in which the employe is sup- 
 posed to have contracted his ailment.: 
 
 Sec. 7. Employer to provide dressing 
 rooms, lavatories, etc-—Every employer 
 engaged in carrying on any process or 
 manufacture of labor referred to in sec- 
 
Relating to Mines and Mining. 95 
 
 tion 2 of this act, shall provide, separate 
 and apart from the workshop in which 
 such employes are engaged, a dressing 
 room and lavatory for the use [of] such 
 employes who are exposed to poison- 
 ous or injurious dusts, fumes and gases, 
 and such lavatory shall be kept and 
 maintained in a hygienic and sanitary 
 manner and provided with a sufficient 
 number of basins or spigots with wash- 
 ing facilities including hot and cold 
 water, clean individual towels and soap, 
 and sufficient shower-baths, and _ the 
 dressing room shall be furnished with 
 compartment lockers, so that the. or- 
 dinary street clothes of such employes 
 shall be kept separate and apart from 
 their working clothes. Male and female 
 employes shall be provided for sepa- 
 rately. 
 
 Sec. 8. Drinking fountains, ice water, 
 etc., to be provided employes.—No 
 employee shall take or be allowed to 
 take any food or drink of any kind into 
 any room or apartment in which any 
 process or manufacture or labor re- 
 ferred to in section 2 of this act is car- 
 ried on, or in which poisonous sub- 
 stances or injurious or noxious fumes, 
 dusts or gasses, are present as the re- 
 sult of such work or process being car- 
 
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 ried on in such room or apartment, and 
 the employes shall not remain in any 
 such room or apartment during the time 
 allowed for meals, and suitable provision 
 shall be made and maintained by the em- 
 ployer for enabling the employes to 
 take their meals elsewhere in such place 
 of employment, and a sufficient number 
 of sanitary drinking fountains contain- 
 ing wholesome drinking water, and pro- 
 viding ice for same, shall be provided 
 and maintained for the use of the em- 
 ployes within reasonable access and 
 without cost to them. 
 
 Sec. 9. Work rooms to be kept in 
 Sanitary condition.—All employers en- 
 gaged in carrying on any process or 
 manufacture or labor referred ‘to in sec- 
 tion 2 of this act, shall provide and 
 maintain adequate devices for carrying 
 off all poisonous or injurious fumes from 
 any furnaces which may be employed in 
 any such process or manufacture or 
 labor, and shall also provide and main- 
 tain adequate and efficient facilities for 
 carrying off all injurious dust, and the 
 floors in any room or apartment where 
 such work or process is carried on shall 
 be kept and maintained ina smooth and 
 hard condition, and no sweeping shall 
 be permitted during working hours ex- 
 
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 cept where the floor in such work shop 
 is dampened so as to prevent the raising 
 of dust; and all ore, slag, dross and fume 
 shall be kept in some room or apart- 
 ment separate from the work rooms oc- 
 cupied by the employes, and all mixing 
 and weighing of such ore, slag, dross or 
 fume shall be done in such separate 
 room or apartment, and all such material 
 shall be dampened or covered before be- 
 ing handled or transported by em- 
 ployes. 
 
 Sec. 10. Prevention of dust.—When 
 any flues or other apparatus are used in 
 any such process or manufacture or 
 labor referred to in section 2 of this act, 
 and when such flues or other apparatus 
 are being cleaned or emptied, the em- 
 ployer shall in every case provide and 
 maintain a sufficient, adequate [and] effi- 
 cient means or device, such as canvas 
 bags or other approved device, or by 
 dampening the dust, or some other effi- 
 cient method for catching and collecting 
 the dust and preventing it from un- 
 reasonably fouling or polluting the air 
 in which the employes are obliged to 
 work, and wherever practicable, the dust 
 occasioned by any process or manufac- 
 ture referred to in section 2 of this act, 
 and in any polishing or finishing there- 
 
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 in, shall be dampened or wet down or 
 covered, and every reasonable precau- 
 tion shall be adopted by the employer 
 to prevent the unnecessary creation or 
 raising of dust, and all floors shall be 
 washed or scrubbed at least once every 
 working day; and such parts of the work 
 or process as are especially dangerous 
 to the employes, on account of poison- 
 ous fumes, dusts and gases, shall, where 
 practicable, be carried on in separate 
 rooms and under cover of some suitable 
 and efficient device to remove the dan- 
 ger to the health of such employes as 
 far as may be reasonably consistent with 
 the manufacturing process, and the fix- 
 tures and tools employed in any such 
 process or manufacture or labor, shall 
 be thoroughly washed and eleaned at 
 reasonable intervals. | 
 
 Sec. 11. Hoppers, chutes, etc., to be 
 provided with covering.—All hoppers or 
 chutes or similar devices used in the 
 course of any process or manufacture 
 referred to in section 2 of this act shall 
 be provided with a hood or covering, 
 and an adequate and efficient apparatus 
 or other proper device for the purpose 
 of drawing away from the employes, 
 noxious, poisonous or injurious dusts, 
 and preventing the employes from 
 
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 coming into unnecessary contact there- 
 with; and all conveyances or receptacles 
 used for the transportation about or 
 the storage in any place where any such 
 process or manufacture or labor referred 
 to in section 2 of this act is carried on, 
 shall be properly covered or dampened 
 in such a way as to protect the health 
 of the employes, and no refuse of a 
 dangerous character incident to the 
 work or process carried on in any such 
 place shall be allowed to remain ac- 
 cumulated on the floors thereof. 
 
 Sec. 12. Duty of state factory inspec- 
 tor.—It shall be the duty of the state 
 factory inspector to enforce the pro- 
 visions of this act and to prosecute all 
 violations of the same before any mag- 
 istrate or any court of competent juris- 
 diction in this state, and for that pur- 
 pose the state factory inspector and his 
 assistants are empowered to and shall 
 visit and inspect, at least once a year, 
 and at reasonable hours, and as often 
 as practicable, all places of employment 
 covered by the provisions of this act. 
 
 See. 13. Notices to be posted in 
 rooms—to contain, what.—For the pur- 
 pose of disseminating a.general knowl- 
 edge of the provisions of this act and of 
 the danger to the health of employes 
 
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 in any work or process covered by the 
 provisions of this act, the employer 
 shall post in a conspicuous place in 
 every room or apartment in which any 
 such work or process is carried on, ap- 
 propriate notices of the known dangers 
 to the health of any such employes 
 arising from such (employes arising 
 from such) work or process, and simple 
 instructions as to any known means of 
 avoiding, so far as possible, the injuri- 
 ous consequences thereof, and the state 
 factory inspector shall have prepared. 
 a notice covering the salient features of 
 this act, and furnish a reasonable num- 
 ber of copies thereof to employers in 
 this state, affected by the provisions of 
 this act, which notice shall be posted 
 by every such employer in a conspicuous 
 place in every room or apartment in 
 such place of employment. The notices 
 required by this section shall be printed 
 on cardboard of suitable character and 
 the type used shall be such as to make 
 them easily legible. 
 
 See. 14. Penalty for violation.—Any 
 person, firm or corporation who shall, 
 personally or through any agent, violate 
 any of the provisions of this act, or who 
 fails or refuses to comply with any of 
 its requirements, or who obstructs or in- 
 
Relating to Mines and Mining. 101 
 
 terferes with any examination or inves- 
 - tigation being made by the state de- 
 partment of factory inspection in .ac- 
 cordance with the provisions of this act, 
 or any employe who shall violate any 
 of the provisions of this act, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and 
 on conviction thereof shall be punished 
 by a fine of not less than twenty-five 
 dollars ($25.00) or more than two hun- 
 dred dollars ($200.00) and in each case 
 shall stand committed until such fine 
 and costs are paid, unless otherwise 
 discharged by due process of law. 
 
 See. 15. Term employer defined.—In 
 this act, unless the context otherwise 
 requires, ‘‘employer’’ includes persons, 
 _ partnerships and corporations. 
 Approved March 27, 1913. 
 
 LABOR—EMPLOYMENT, HEALTH, 
 SAFETY AND STATISTICS: Hours 
 of Labor and Payment of Wages— 
 Day’s Work in Certain Mines and 
 Business Defined. 
 
 Section 1. Amending article 4, chap- 
 ter 67, by adding two new sections.— 
 That article IV of chapter 67 of the Re- 
 vised Statutes of 1909, relating to hours 
 of labor and payment of wages be 
 
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 amended by inserting the following sec- 
 tions after section 7814 in said article 
 IV of chapter 67. . 
 
 Sec. 7814a. Day’s work in certain 
 mines and business defined—employees 
 to work, how long.—It is hereby de- 
 clared to be unlawful for any person, 
 company ‘or corporation engaged in 
 carrying on the business of any kind 
 of silica mining, plate glass manufac- 
 turing or smelting business to work 
 their employees in any mine or mines, 
 mill or mills, factories or plants for a 
 period of time longer than eight hours 
 in a day of twenty-four hours, and it is 
 hereby declared that eight hours shall 
 constitute a day of employment for all 
 laborers or employees engaged in the 
 kind of labor or industries aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 7814b. Penalty.—Any person or 
 persons, company or corporation who 
 shall vivlate any of the provisions of 
 the preceding section shall be, deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor and on convic- 
 tion shall be fined in a sum not less 
 than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), nor 
 more than five hundred dollars ($500.00). 
 
 Approved April 14, 1913. 
 
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 MINES AND MINING: Inspection of 
 Mines and Safety of Miners—Stables 
 for Live Stock—Ventilation, etc... 
 Section 1. Stables for live stock— 
 
 ventilation, etc.—Where live stock is 
 
 kept underground the stables or stalls 
 shall be separated from the main air- 
 course by not less than six feet of solid 
 strata or a. solid wall of brick, 
 masonery or concrete, not less than 
 twelve inches in thickness. The con- 
 struction of the stable shall as far as 
 practical, be free from all combustible 
 material. No hay or straw shall be 
 taken into the mine unless same be 
 . compressed into compact bales, and only 
 from time to time in such quantities as 
 will be required for two days’ use. No 
 greater quantity of hay or straw shall 
 be stored in the mine or stable and 
 when such is taken inside the mine it 
 shall be taken to the stable at once and 
 placed in a separate room, provided 
 therein for the same. The stable must 
 be so placed that the air ventilating the 
 same is returned immediately to the 
 main outlet aifcourse, and not allowed 
 to go further into the mine to where 
 the men are working. The connections 
 between the aircourses and the stables 
 must be fitted with substantial doors, 
 
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 placed so that they can be readily 
 reached in the event of fire in the sta- 
 ble.. Where conditions prohibit the use 
 of entirely incombustible material in the 
 construction of the stable the doors lead- 
 ing to or from the same shall be cov- 
 ered with corrugated iron or some non- 
 combustible material, set in masonry or 
 concrete walls. The lights used in the 
 stable shall be incandescent lamps placed 
 so that same will not be injured by the 
 stock or the persons required to enter 
 the stable, or lanterns of railroad type 
 suitable for using lard or signal oil, and 
 only such oil shall be used therein. All 
 refuse and waste shall be promptly re- 
 moved from the stable in the mine and 
 shall not be allowed to accumulate. 
 Stables constructed underground after 
 the passage of this act shall be located 
 not nearer than fifty feet to any opening 
 to the mine used as a means of ingress 
 or egress. 
 
 See. 2. Penalty.—Every owner or 
 operator or the agent of such owner or 
 operator or lessee of any coal mine in 
 this state, who shall fail or refuses to 
 carry out the provisions of the preced- 
 ing section, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and upon conviction there- 
 of, shall be punished by a fine of not 
 
Relating to Mines and Mining. 105 
 
 less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, 
 nor more than three hundred dollars 
 ($300.00); or by imprisonment in the 
 county jail not less than six months nor 
 more than twelve months, or by both 
 such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Approved March 27, 1913. 
 
 MINES AND MINING: Inspection of 
 Mines and Safety of Miners—Inspec- 
 tors to Close Mines, When. 
 
 Section 1. Inspectors to close mines, 
 when.—The chief mine inspector and his 
 assistants shall have the power and it is 
 hereby made their duty, to stop the oper- 
 ation of and close any mine or part there- 
 of, where poisonous damps exist, where 
 rotten ropes or unSafe cages are used, or 
 where a safe escape way is not provided, 
 for allemployees. Any person or persons 
 violating the provisions of this section, 
 and any member or stockhold [er] or 
 officer of any company or corporation 
 who shall violate the provisions of this 
 section, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and on conviction thereof be 
 punished by a fine of not less than twen- 
 ty-five dollars, nor more than one hun- 
 dred dollars, or imprisonment in the - 
 
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 county jail thirty days nor more than 
 ninety days, or by both such fine and 
 imprisonment for each and every separ- 
 ate offense. 
 
 Approved March 22, 1915. 
 
 MINES AND MINING: Inspection of 
 Mines and Safety of Miners—Pro- 
 moting Health and Sanitary Condi- 
 tions of Coal Miners—Providing | 
 Washhouses and Equipment. 
 
 Section 1. Washhouses and equip- 
 ment—sanitary conditions, etc..—It shall 
 be the duty of every person, corporation 
 or company, and of his or its agents, of- 
 ficers, representatives. or person or per- 
 sons in charge of, owning and operating 
 or operating as lessees a coal mine within 
 the state of Missouri, wherein ten or more 
 miners are employed in digging coal to 
 provide within six months after the ap- 
 proval of this act a suitable building to 
 be used by said miners as a washhouse of 
 a size not to exceed twelve feet in width 
 and twenty feet in length and one story 
 in height, and to be located within a 
 reasonable distance, not to exceed three 
 hundred feet of the shafthouse of the 
 said mine, for the accomodation of the 
 miners who desire to use the same; said 
 
Relating to Mines and Mining. 107 
 
 washhouse to be equipped with a stove 
 or other heating apparatus, and if a stove 
 be furnished that the fuel to be burned in 
 the same to be furnished by the operator 
 of said mine; said washhouse shall be 
 kept in a good and sanitary condition by 
 the miners who use the same for the pur- 
 pose of washing themselves and changing 
 clothing when going to and returning 
 from the mine. The room for the negroes 
 shall be separate from the white race, 
 
 but may be in the same building. An 
 ’ available supply of water shall be fur- 
 nished by the operator and the same shall 
 be carried to said washhouse by the 
 miners; the miners shall furnish their own 
 towels, basins, and soap, and shall exer- 
 cise control over and be responsible for 
 all property by them left therein. 
 
 See. 2. Liability for loss or destruc- 
 tion of property.—No person, corpora- 
 tion or company, its agents, officers or 
 representatives, furnishing such a wash- 
 house at his or its mines as required in 
 section one hereof shall be legally liable 
 for the loss or destruction of any property 
 left at or in said washhouse. 
 
 Sec. 3. Penalty.—Any person, cor- 
 poration or company, its officers or 
 agents, failing, neglecting or refusing to 
 comply with the provisions of section one 
 
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 of this act shall be guilty of a misdemean- 
 or and shall, upon conviction be fined in 
 any sum not less than twenty-five dollars 
 ($25.00), nor more than one hundred dol- 
 lars ($100.00). Each week that such per- 
 son, corporation or company, fails and 
 neglects to comply with the provisions of 
 said section shall constitute a separate 
 offense: Provided, this act shall not 
 apply to strip-pit or steal coal 
 mining. 
 Approved March 22, 1915. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 General laws applying to mines, mining 
 
 and mine inspection. 
 
 ACCIDENTS— Sec. Page. 
 coroner to be notified, when..... 8462 51 
 inspector to be informed of...... 8462 51 
 inspector to go to scene, when..... 8462 51 
 inspector to make report of..... 8462 51 
 inspector to take deposition..... 8462 51 
 mine operator liable............ 5440 75 
 PIG OLACCOMS | ois cts 8 G)e.g eine eos 3 8471 67 
 
 ACTION— 
 mine operator liable............ 5440 Fics 
 right of, for injury or death..... 8470 67 
 Survival of right, off... 3 oi ae el. 5445 77 
 
 BOILER IRON— 
 cages to be covered with........ 8456 45 
 
 BOUNDARY— 
 map showing same............. 8441 33 
 relative to mining claims........ 8414 11 
 
 BUREAU OF MINES— 
 
 SUA DHSEOCUM sie poucheh kd ohooh, aniaees 8464 53 
 inspection districts—state di- 
 
 Va LOCUM Rie BARI, Gh ah co Sure ale voir 8464 53 
 inspectors, how appointed....... 8464 53 
 number of state mine inspectors 8464 53 
 office, where located............ 8464 53 
 qualifications of inspectors...... 8464 53 
 salary of inspectors............. 8464 53 
 secretary of — appointment — 
 
 CONE AYES AS) (ey Genoa ey Org oh 2 8464 53 
 
 CAGES— 
 covered with boiler iron......... 8456 45 
 limited to twelve persons........ 8457 46 
 not to ride on when loaded...... 8457 46 
 Safety Catches for.............. 8456 45 
 to be supplied with guides...... 8456 45 
 
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 COAL MINES—(see special laws.) 
 CONTRACTS— Sec. Page. 
 
 on contingency of injury void... 5443 we 
 COUNTY COURT— 
 
 copy of mine map filed with..... 8441 33 
 mine map to be corrected....... 8441 33 
 COURT— 
 injunction granted, when....... 8413 10 
 power, Of Court: 2.6... oe eee 8413 10 
 DAY— i 
 eight hours for miners........ . . 8437 OL 
 DAMAGES— Bh 
 mine operator liable............ 5440 15 
 survival of right of action....... 5445 19 
 DEPOSITIONS— 
 inspector to take, when......... 8462 51 
 EIGHT HOURS— 
 day’s work for miners........... 8437 31 
 EM PLOYES— 
 age, limit Of) 3.) 4.0.0.4. 2) aie 8456 45 
 brought to surface for meals..... 8439 32 
 certain persons not to work..... 8456 45 
 eight hours labor...) 22. sae 8438 31 
 fellow servants defined......... 5442 76 
 , fellow servants, who exempt.... 5444 ri 
 in charge of hoisting machinery.. 8457 46 
 limited number on cage......... 8457 46 
 mines employing ten or more.... 8441 33 
 not permitted on loaded cage.... 8457 46 
 right of action: ......-- =. ae 8470 67 
 wages, 6tc.. 0 32.0. 0. ae eee 8435 29 
 ENGINEER— , 
 qualification—age limit......... 8457 46 
 EXCAVATION— 
 under public highways.......... 8427 22 
 
 EX PLOSIONS—(see accidents.) 
 FELLOW SERVANTS— 
 
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 FELLOW SERVANTS—Continued—Sec. Page. 
 
 employes exempt.............. 5444 
 
 mine operators liable........... 5440 
 FORFEITURE— 
 
 of rights to work mine.......... ' 8409 
 GUIDES— nee 
 
 required.on CageS.............- 8456 
 
 HIGHWAYS—(see public highways.) 
 HOISTING— 
 means of signaling required..... 8456 
 person to control of machinery.. 8457 
 props or rails not to be lowered, 
 
 IV ITOED RN Way cy. cr ch cid Sic ches ck wie eee 8456 
 INSPECTORS— 
 accidents, causes investigated... 8462 
 districts—state divided, how..... 8464 
 duties regarding health and 
 PEO BAROUN ETS A kw Aas ORS 8465 
 how appointed—duty of—term.. 8464 
 may enter any mine............ 8467 
 personnel of bureau............ ee 
 SA LALys OL cre ie crenata Se Rue eles es 8464 
 to be notified of abandoned 
 WOLHSR is cholterceh sisteee te ioete cee deme 8441 
 to close mine, when and how.... 8467 
 to go to scene of accident, when. 8462 
 to make map, when............ 8442 
 to make report of accidents..... 8462 
 to make report to governor...:... 8465 
 to take depositions, when....... 8462 
 INJUNCTION— 
 dissolution application.......... 8413 
 inspector to proceed by, when... 8467 
 DOWEL Of COUDU Hes fetes ol aes 8413 
 to enjoin working of mine....... 8413 
 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE— 
 survey ordered by. .... 2. 0..4./.% 8414 
 LANDS— 
 
 working beyond boundary...... 8414 
 
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 LEAD AND ZINC MINES—(see Sec. Page. 
 
 special laws.) 
 LEASEHOLD— 
 
 terms of; posted). jc]. aca eee 
 
 LESSEE—(see operator.) 
 MAPS—.. 
 
 of mines to be prepared......... 
 of mine made by inspector, when 
 
 MEALS— 
 
 miners brought to surface for.... 
 
 MINING . ‘ 
 relative to:royalty ... 20 -.)0. 08 
 
 royalty paid when............. 
 
 MINES— 
 
 abandoned, how............... 
 boundary: lines i)... 2 3 ae 
 boundary, relation to........... 
 closed by inspector, how........ 
 injunction or restraining orders. . 
 inspector may enter............ 
 new operations to be reported... 
 
 MINERAL— 
 
 MINERAL LAN DS— 
 
 permit to mine, forfeited when... 
 permit to mine posted.......... 
 
 OATHS—(see accidents.) 
 OPERATORS— 
 
 hoisting machinery operated by 
 
 mine map, relative to.......... 
 to furnish facilities to enter 
 
 to furnish inspector map........ 
 to keep supply of prop timber. .. 
 to make map of mine.......... 
 
Relating to Mines and Mining. 113 
 
 OPERATORS—Continued— Sec. Page. 
 to make report, when.......... 8465 Ns 
 to provide means of signaling.... 8456 45 
 to report new mines............ 8465 55 
 to require monthly statement 
 
 fPLOMAWHOM oe. eee Oat 8465 55 
 
 ORE AND OTHER MINERAL— 
 
 SALOMOI Arete share eared Highs ooh Ke 8412 9 
 
 OW NERS—(see operators.) 
 
 PENALTIES— 
 excavating under highways..... 8429 23 
 for failure to bring miners to sur- 
 
 FACOM WHET ayes eishy ce ol ee 8439 32 
 for failure to make report....... 8466 58 
 for failure to pay employes...... 8435 29 
 for failure to report accidents.... 8462 51 
 for general misdeeds in mine ....8472 68 
 
 for hindering making of survey.. 8416 12 
 for injury to mining property....8472 °* 68 
 for violation to eight-hour law... 8438 31 
 for violations when penalty is not 
 
 otherwise fixed....:5....:.... 8463 52 
 relative to age limit—safety 
 catches—signaling, etc........ 8456 45 
 PROP TIMBERS— 
 sufficient supply required....... 8473 69 
 PUBLIC HIGHWAYS— 
 excavation under, prohibited...: 8428 E23 
 RAILROADS 
 excavations under, prohibited.... 8427 22 
 REPORT— 
 by inspectors to governor....... 8465 55 
 delinquents reported to prosecut- 
 PNP ATCONNOV Sect: «5 clare sss. os ocev cote 8466 58 
 RIGHTS OF MINERS— 
 forfeiture of rights............. 8408 3 
 forferture Of rights: 5 6s. soe ee: 8409 4 
 
 terms and conditions to be 
 POSUGCIG ee kel hdcc st stoi che «an eositene 8408 3 
 
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 ROYALTY FOR MINING— Sec. Page. 
 paidiaaben nic 65 sisi adie at ae 8409 4 
 tender of payment............. 8410 7 
 
 SAFETY CATCHES— 
 on cages required............... 8456 45 
 
 SALARIES—(see bureau of mines.) 
 
 SALES— 
 report of, sent to inspector...... 8465 55 
 
 SECRETAR Y—(see bureau of mines.) 
 
 SIGNALINGS— 
 suitable means of, required...... 8456 45 
 
 SURVEYOR— 
 tO: Maker survey oasis clue exe 8414 11 
 to readworder.....,/;.4¢3 eee 8415 12 
 
 WAGES— 
 operators may withhold......... 8435 29 
 paid semi-monthly............. 8435 29 
 
 WITNESSES—(see accidents.) 
 
 Special Laws Applying to Coal Mines. 
 
 (See general laws.) 
 ACCIDENTS—(see general laws.) 
 AIR—(see ventilation.) 
 
 AIR CURRENTS—(see ventilation.) 
 APPLICATION of certain  sec- 
 
 TOTS ihe eae aaus oes egy oe ereee 8427 
 BLASTING HOLES 
 
 chargedshow.. i... sis. awe Sa ee ee 8449 
 BOARD— 
 
 OF Tra sea cuca eee eee 8480 
 BOILERS— 
 
 examination certified to inspec- 
 
 GOP 8 Sy Bono vison cr es 41 4 eee ele ee 8461 
 
 steam—examined semi-annually. 8461 
 BON D— 
 
 amount required............... 8422 
 
 circuit court to approve...... .. 8420 
 
 22 
 
 40 
 
 75 
 
 50 
 
 50 
 
 18 
 16 
 
Relating to Mines and Mining. 
 
 BON D—Continued— Sec. 
 indemnity required............ 8419 
 sureties required............... 8423 
 
 BORE HOLES— 
 kept twenty feet in advance..... 8455 
 
 CAGES— 
 covered with boiler iron........ 8456 
 number of. men toridein....... 8457 
 
 CHECK-WEIGHMAN—(see weighing.) 
 CITIES— 
 
 indemnity bond required....... 8419 
 permitiissued Dy. 2... seta ass 8421 
 DAY— 
 
 eight hours—(see general law.) 
 DIAGRAM OF MINE 
 
 county surveyor to make....... 8426 
 
 filed with circuit clerk.......... 8426 
 
 forfeiture of mining privilege.... 8426 
 DOORS— 
 
 how. constructed). 2hichc ene 8445 
 DRIFTS— 4 
 
 outlets required 2). 2 ii. a 8443 
 
 EIGHT HOURS—(see general law.) 
 EMPLOY ES— 
 
 blasting holes, how charged..... 8449 
 eight hours labor............ ‘sie. ABM 
 escapement shafts for.......... 8443 
 experience required to handle ex- 
 
 TILOSL VS certian treme aL eheo es exiolt ete col'ainetie 8448 
 AT RTISMODC eae ere owls +... 84386 
 limited in certain mines......... 8443 
 loaders, duties of.............. 8433 
 qualifications of miners......... 8479 
 BCROOIAN S.COALs saatotl aed tk elses 8430 
 semi-weekly inspection......... 8458 
 PW UO Gers nieys op tkcunrh eli Addeyone tabs ollaule 8435 
 weighman, duties of, etc........ 8431 
 
 ESCAPEMENT— 
 
 shaft, how constructed......... 8443 
 
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 EXPLOSIVES— Sec. Page. 
 experienced person to handle.... 8448 40 
 to be kept in strong box........ 8477 71 
 
 FIRE DAMP— 
 relative to 2.2 0. eee ee 8445 37 
 
 GAS— 
 mines generating.............. 8447 8 39 
 mines to be examined daily..... 8447 39 
 
 HOISTING— 
 coal not to be hoisted, when..... 8457 46 
 competent persons at top and 
 
 bottom of shaft. (2% see 8460 49 
 semi-weekly inspection......... 8458 AT 
 velocity Of. 223 : {Atv eee (8457 46 
 
 INSPECTOR— 
 boiler examination certified to... 8461 50 
 of weights, measures and scales.. 8434 28 
 to determine number to ride 
 
 COBO oo Se cca Sk ieee 8457 46 
 to examine daily record of gaseous 
 
 MINGS'.. 405-6. bs os Ree 8447 39 
 to give notice of new law....... 8476 71 
 to make test of oils............ 8454 44 
 to order room sealed........... 8474 69 
 to pass on qualifications of 
 
 MINOM 5. oe a ob & esheeel ee ee 8479 73 
 to test scales... 25... cots 6 eee 8434 28 
 ventilation inspected by........ 8445 37 
 
 LIENS— 
 employes have, for work done... 8436 30 
 property subject to............ 8436 30 
 
 LOADERS— 
 manner of weighing............ 8433 28 
 
 LOW ERIN G—(see hoisting.) 
 
 MAP OF MINE—(see diagram.) 
 
 MINERS—(see employes.) 
 
 MINES— 
 abandoned rooms to be sealed... 8474 69 
 abandoned, securely fenced. .... 8461 50 
 
Relating to Mines and Mining. 117 
 
 MINES—Continued— Sec. Page. 
 dry and dusty—regulation for... 8449 40 
 examined daily, when.......... 8447 39 
 method of working............. 8474 69 
 
 MINING— 
 
 -board of—powers, etc........... 8480 75 
 
 NOTICE— 
 of intention to mine............ 8420 16 
 
 OILS. 
 barrels. or packages’ branded, 
 
 EO Werte ee cee lel os saute aes 8452 41 
 for illuminating purposes....... 8452 41 
 inspector to make test.......... 8454 44 
 CHEESE CO) Fs U8 20 een a a 8452 41 
 violations prosecuted, how...... 8454 44 
 
 OPERATOR— 
 can employ only five men, when. 8443 35 
 relative to twenty-five men em- 
 
 BED EOWO cat a atettibau abate: cele nie ba ecd 8460 49 
 to construct escapement shaft... 8443 35 
 to employ competent person at 
 
 top of shaft—duty of......... 8460 49 
 to keep bore-holes, how......... 8455 44 
 to maintain semi-weekly inspec- 
 
 ed (STARR per eh Lenore iss site, cal. sho) ene Uvatys 8458 47 
 
 OUTLETS—(see shafts.) 
 
 OW NER—(see operator.) 
 
 PENALTIES— 
 failure to employ shot-firers..... 8478 73 
 failure to employ man at top of 
 
 Miia te Pe hers gees alerted 8460 49 
 failure to file diagram.......... 8426 21 
 failure to keep powder in strong 
 
 ORM ean eee er EN ier wes: get 8478 73; 
 failure to keep roadways clean... 8443 35 
 failure to properly adjust scales.. 8434 28 
 failure to provide escapement..... 8444 37 
 failure to provide semi-weekly 
 
 DUS DOC ULO Mites ciate N avohees at oletgares 8459 48 
 failure to qualify as miner........ 8479 73 
 
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 PENALTIES—Continued— Sec. Page. 
 ~ for mining without permit...... 8424 20 
 for screening coal before weigh- 
 
 IN Ge SE ES. ee OE ee 8430 23 
 for using false scales........... 8432 QF 
 for violation of certain sections... 8451 41 
 if oils are not branded.......... 8453 43 
 indemnity bond, failure to se- 
 
 CUTCLE Hoe eal oe eee eee 8419 15 
 relative to entries and crosscuts.. 8474 69 
 relative to weighing........ wig vede¥es, OOM 25 
 
 PERMIT TO MINE— 
 circuit court to hear testimony. . 8422 18 
 cost paid, how............. Cotehste ALD 21 
 mayor and council to issue...... 8421 17 
 permission of property owners... 8424 20 
 PILLAR AND ROOM— 
 (see room and pillar.) 
 PLAT OF MINE—(see diagram.) 
 POW DER— 
 in dry and dusty mines......... 8449 40 
 PUBLICATION OF— 
 intention to mine.............. 8420 16 
 ROADWAYS— 
 to be'kept clean............... 8443 35 
 ROOM AND PILLAR— 
 abandoned rooms to be sealed... 8474 69 
 method of working............. 8474 69 
 two entries necessary........:.. 8474 69 
 when five or more persons are 
 OMPILOYV OCs: s/o ).0he. 5510 dhs tone mete eee 8474 69 
 SCALES—(see weighing.) 
 SCREENING— 
 before weighing prohibited...... 8430 23 
 SHAFTS— 
 air shaft no escapement shaft.... 8443 35 
 escapements, how constructed... 8443 35 
 top of, to be fenced..........4.. 8461 50 
 SHOT FIRERS— 
 71 
 
 to be employed, when.......... 8477 
 
Relating to Mines and Mining. 119 
 
 SIGNALING— Sec. Page. 
 bet-ween stepping places........ 8461 50 
 SLO PE— 
 entrance fenced... .............. 8461 50 
 outlets required................ 8443 35 
 SPLITS—(see ventilation.) 
 STATE MINING BOARD....... 8480 15 
 STEAM BOILERS—(see boilers.) 
 SUM PS— 
 ' to be planked over............. 8450 41 
 TRAPPER— 
 to be employed, when.......... 8445 37 
 TRAVELING WAYS— 
 through shafts, etc............. 8450 41 
 VENTILATION— 
 air shaft separate.............. 8443 35 
 boy or trapper to be employed, 
 
 WEL TLE MMtCEM ants econ E ata te starr ees 8445 37 
 eross-cuts necessary............ 8474 69 
 doors, how constructed......... 8445 37 
 gas—number of men—splits... 8447 39 
 good and sufficient—amount re- 
 
 Uh dee, 2.3 la aR AN ae a i aC 8445 37 
 inspector to make inspection.... 8445 OC 
 means of providing............. 8445 37 
 relative to splits. ..........:.0.06% 8445 SHE 
 separate air currents required.... 8446 39 
 
 WAGES—(see general law.) 
 employers’ lien................ 8436 30 
 WEIGHING— 
 a@uty of- loaders. . 6.06.6 2 8433 28 
 inspection of scales............. 8434 28 
 miners may select weighman.... 8431 25 
 powers of special weighman..... 8431 25 
 scales located where............ 8432 27 
 to be done’ before screening. .... 8430 23 
 weighman to take oath......... 8431 25 
 
120 Laws of Missouri 
 
 WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND Sec. Page. 
 
 SCALES?) 22.4 9.9 x | aatoeeieee 8434. 
 ZINC AND LEAD MINES— 
 (see special laws.) 
 
 Special Laws Applying to all Mines 
 
 Other than Coal. 
 
 (See General Laws.) ° 
 
 ACCIDENTS—(see general law.) 
 AIR HOLES— 
 
 required, .when'..47. 32. a ssmiee ene 8469 
 DAY— 
 
 eight hours—(see general law.) 
 DRAINAGE— 
 
 of mine. << .!. 65+. a wce eee ee 8417 
 EMPLOYES— 
 
 eight hours labor... 2 s\n eee 8437 
 
 WA&ROS a oan ver cle pcstoleie iecele jeer area ieEeaee 8435 
 INSPECTORS— 
 
 duties, powers, etc.............. 8468 
 
 to inspect all underground ex- 
 
 cavations: ¢ 20.7.5... ete ee -. 8469 
 
 LESSEE— 
 
 drainage,.of “mine: -3.... 1 8417 
 
 PDUMP-Trent: .. ack ae ee ce ee 8417 
 MINE— 
 
 when dangerous to be closed... 8468 
 ORE— 
 
 scrapping for, prohibited...... 8418 
 OW NER— 
 drainage of mine............. 8417 
 DUMp-rent: oi. ke oe pers ee 8417 
 PENALTIES 
 failure to provide proper venti- 
 lation. oo casa sean eee eee 8470 
 
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Relating to Mines and Mining. 121 
 
 PUMP RENT— Sec. 
 
 not collectible, when........... 8417 
 ROYALTY— 
 
 not collectible, when........... 8417 
 SCRAPPING— 
 
 ROUGH 2 foo Mee 8 SS ed bres 8418 
 SHAFTS— 
 
 to sink another, when.......... 8468 
 VENTILATION— 
 
 mspection Of 0.66. ee eed et eo. 8469 
 
 ; WAGES—(see general law.) 
 
 New and Amended Laws. 
 
 CLOTHING FURNISHED— 
 COTES O AITESIAY SM EAC a Rea 
 employes examined by _ physi- 
 
 physician to make report....... 
 duty of secretary of board of 
 
 iigeled tA atid Alas Clg eee ee enn ARE eae ERATOR 
 ‘employer to provide dressing 
 
 drinking fountains............. 
 WONT USIERSO TIN 0 od, cos ic, ela, oso ce 'shivies arabe 
 prevention of dust............. 
 INSPECTORS— 
 inspector to post statements 
 —condition of mines—num- 
 ber of men to ride in cage 
 Ee RTOROUIP AEA 2-2 ese aia ws as w Oe 4858 
 INSPECTION— 
 detonators or caps not to be kept 
 with other explosives—explos- 
 ives not to be prepared for fir- 
 ing the magazine—penalty.... 
 emergency— inconsistent acts re- 
 
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 INSPECTION—Continued— 
 excess explosives to be stored in 
 magazine. iy.... 1.8 4 A fpe 53 ; 
 inspector may enter at any time. 
 state bureau of mines estab- 
 
 safety of miners—complaints.... 
 storing of explosives............ 
 stables for live stock........... 
 PON AGH Ae eis. a ee 
 VONtHAtION shes SB RNGE | ein eee eee 
 LABOR — Employment, Health, 
 Safety, Statistics— 
 general provisions for health and 
 safety—protection for occupa- 
 tional or industrial diseases— 
 penalty, ¢ os We os Oe 
 hoppers, chutes, etc., to be pro- 
 vided with covering.......... 
 duty of state factory inspector— 
 notice to be posted in rooms— 
 to contain; what... ae 
 penalty for violation......... eee 
 term employer defined........ 0 ee 
 days work in certain mines and 
 business defined.............. 
 DEMALCY. be i sreties san nest oe 
 
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