1 1343.0775 
 LCMA 2 
 
 1919- 
 
 C.3 ILLINOIS 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF 
 
 Mines and Minerals 
 
 General 
 
 Information 
 
 and Laws 
 
 Effective July 1* 1919 
 
 ROBERT M. MEDILL 
 
 Director 
 
 SPRINGFIELD 
 
 [Printed by authority of the State of Illinois.] 
 
• • 
 
 I 
 
 ‘ ^ 
 
 ' Jii^v 
 
ILLINOIS 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF 
 
 Mines and Minerals 
 
 General 
 Information 
 and Laws 
 
 Effective July i, 1919 
 
 ROBERT M. MEDILL 
 
 Director 
 
 • SPRINGFIELD 
 
 [Printed by authorityjo>f the State of Illinois.] 
 
 7423437 
 
ILLINOIS PRINTING CO., DANVILLE, ILL. 
 
 (41961-2M) 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Page. 
 
 1. Department of Mines and Minerals — 
 
 Organization, power and duties. 7 
 
 2. General Mining Law. 10 
 
 3. Right of Eminent Domain.. 77 
 
 4. Wages, Lien on Property. 81 
 
 5. Miners paid for all Coal Mined. 81 
 
 6. Shot-firers in Coal Mines. 82 
 
 7. Fire Fighting Equipment. 85 
 
 8. Rescue Stations . 95 
 
 9. Miners’ Examining Board. 99 
 
 10. Oil and Gas Wells. 104 
 
 11. Coal and other Mineral Leases. .*••• 197 
 
 12. "* Oil or Gas Leases. .* . 108 
 
 13. Regulating Character of Explosives. 109 
 
 14. Regulating Character of Black Powder. 112 
 
 15. Wash Rooms for Employees. 115 
 
 16. Capital Stock Ownership. 117 
 
 17. Mining Engineering .. 117 
 
 18. Trespassing . 119 
 
 19. Information . 119 
 
 20. Mining Investigation . 120 
 
 21. Rules and Regulations Governing Examina¬ 
 
 tions . 124 
 
 22. Workmen’s Compensation.127 
 
 23. Tables of Compensation—Present Values_171 
 

 Ccr\p 
 
 I 
 
 -?r' ‘ .' ■; 
 
 ■/- — 
 
 • ^ ; 
 
 ■ »* 
 
 
 'rt 
 
 
 
 -- -''v^'^ 
 
 
 
 ■. 
 
 ■V^ ■ 
 
 •n ••(: 
 
 
 
 ^ ■- 
 
 ' ■ ->< 
 
 
 
 ' f.A 
 > ' 
 
 —*• ' 
 
 I - 
 
 / . 
 
 / 
 
 f ,"''■^ ^'' 
 
 •,'i --• •-^--. 
 
 

 DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERALS. 
 
 Director, Robert M. Medill, Springfield. 
 Assistant Director, Martin Bolt, Springfield. 
 
 THE MINING BOARD. 
 
 Mine Officers: 
 
 Robert M. Medill, Director. 
 
 M. S. Coleman, Harrisburg. 
 
 James Needham, Chicago. 
 
 William Hutton, DuQuoin. 
 
 Peter Joyce, Springfield. 
 
 MINERS’ EXAMINING BOARD. 
 
 Miners^ Examining Officers: 
 
 William Hall, President, Springfield. 
 
 William H. Turner, Secretary-Treasurer, Col¬ 
 linsville. 
 
 William Hogan, Zeigler. 
 
 Joseph C. Viano, Coal City. 
 
 DIVISION OF MINE INSPECTION. 
 
 Mine Inspectors: 
 
 Walter A. Waite, Springvalley. 
 
 William E. Kidd, Peoria. 
 
 Thomas P. Back, Canton. 
 
 Robert F. Back, Springfield. 
 
 Joseph Haskins, Catlin. 
 
 John G. Millhouse, Litchfield. 
 
 W. L. Morgan, Greenville. 
 
 James Richards, Belleville. 
 
 Frank Rosbottom, DuQuoin. 
 
 John O’Rourke, Benton. 
 
 Thomas English, Harrisburg. 
 
 Henry D. Thompson, Collinsville. 
 
 
 State 
 
DIVISION OF ECONOMIC INVESTIGATION. 
 
 Investigator: 
 
 James Taylor, Peoria. 
 
 DIVISION OF MINE RESCUE AND FIRST AID. 
 
 Superintendents: 
 
 Alexander Skelton, LaSalle. 
 
 Thomas Rogers, Herrin. 
 
 John Clusky, Springfield. 
 
 James Robertson, DuQuoin. 
 
 James Weir, Benton. 
 
 Frank Patterson, Harrisburg. 
 
DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERALS. 
 
 I. ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT. 
 
 1. Executive Officers. 
 
 The Department of Mines and Minerals is com¬ 
 posed of the following executive officers : A Director, 
 an Assistant Director, a Mining Board consisting of 
 four mine officers and the Director of the Department, 
 and a Miner’s Examining Board of four persons desig¬ 
 nated as miners’ examining officers. (Secs. 4 and 5, 
 Code.) 
 
 2. Seal. 
 
 Departments are required to adopt and authenti¬ 
 cate their acts by an official seal. (Sec. 19, Code.) 
 
 S. CenU'al and Branch Offices. 
 
 Each department is required to maintain a cen¬ 
 tral office at the Capitol. Branch offices for the con¬ 
 duct of a particular function of the department may 
 be established and maintained at other places by the 
 director with the approval of the Governor. (Sec. 
 17, Code.) 
 
 >}. Employees, Civil Service. 
 
 From those who are in the classified civil service 
 of the State on July 1, 1917, in the office, board, com¬ 
 mission or institution coming under the supervision 
 and control of the department, each employee is to 
 be assigned to a position in the department, having 
 so far as possible duties equal to his former office or 
 employment, provided no more are employed than are 
 necessary to the proper performance of the functions 
 of the department. (Sec. 24, Code.) 
 
 Departments have power, subject to civil service 
 laws, to employ all other necessary employees and fix 
 
8 
 
 their compensation, when their compensation has not 
 been theretofore determined by law. (Sec. 20, Code.) 
 
 5. Rules and Regulations. 
 
 It is the duty of the Director to prescribe rules 
 and regulations for the government of his department, 
 the conduct of its employees, the distribution and 
 formance of its business and the custody, use and 
 preservation of the property, records and documents. 
 (Sec. 16, Code.) 
 
 6. Cooperation, Coordination and Efficiency. 
 
 The Director is to devise a practical system of 
 cooperation and coordination of the work of the de¬ 
 partment to eliminate all duplication and overlapping 
 of functions, and to economize, whenever practicable, 
 in the use of quarters and equipment. With the con¬ 
 sent of the superior officer of the employee, the 
 Director may require an employee of another depart¬ 
 ment to perform any duty that is required of his own 
 emploj^ees. (Sec. 26, Code.) 
 
 7. Moneys, Disposition. 
 
 All State funds or moneys received by a depart¬ 
 ment must be turned over to the State treasury within 
 ten days of receipt, without any deduction whatso¬ 
 ever. (Sec. 27, Code.) 
 
 8. Expenditures. 
 
 Departments are forbidden to make expenditures 
 except in consequence of an appropriation duly made 
 and upon the warrant of the Auditor of Public Ac¬ 
 counts. (Sec. 27, Code.) 
 
 9. Reports. 
 
 In addition to the semi-annual and biennial re¬ 
 ports provided for by the constitution, the Director is 
 required to make on or before December, annually to 
 the Governor, and whenever otherwise requested, 
 
9 
 
 written report concerning the condition, management 
 and financial transactions of the department. (Sec. 
 25, Code.) ' 
 
 II. POWERS AND DUTIES. 
 
 10, Generally. 
 
 This department is by the Civil Administrative 
 Code given power to— 
 
 Acquire and diffuse information concerning 
 the nature, causes and prevention of mine 
 accidents, and the improvement of methods, con¬ 
 ditions and equipment of mines with special refer¬ 
 ence to health, safety and the conservation of 
 mineral resources; 
 
 Inquire into the economic condition affecting 
 mining, quarrying, metallurgical, clay, oil and 
 other mineral industries; 
 
 Promote the technical efficiency of all persons 
 working in and about the mines of the State and 
 assist them in better to overcome the increasing 
 difficulties of mining, and for that purpose to pro¬ 
 vide bulletins, traveling libraries, lecturers, corre¬ 
 spondence work, classes for systematic instruc¬ 
 tion, or meetings for reading and discussion of 
 papers and to that end to cooperate with the 
 University of Illinois; 
 
 And generally to discharge the rights, powers 
 and duties of the former State Mining Board, 
 State Mine Inspectors, and Mine Fire Fighting 
 and Rescue Station Commission. (Sec. 45, Code.) 
 
 11, Mining Board. 
 
 The duties of the re-created Mining Board are 
 specifically enumerated by the Code as follows: 
 
 Hold meetings; 
 
 Conduct examinations for and pass upon the 
 practical and technological qualifications of the 
 personal fitness of inspectors of mines, mine man- 
 
10 
 
 agers, mine examiners and hoisting engineers; 
 
 Conduct examinations for inspectors of mines 
 the second Tuesday in September annually and at 
 such times as may be necessary, and for mine 
 managers, mine examiners and hoisting engineers 
 at such times and places as will afford the best 
 facilities to the greatest number of candidates; 
 
 Announce by public notice of the time and 
 place of all examinations; 
 
 Prescribe uniform rules, conditions and regu¬ 
 lations for all authorized examinations; 
 
 Report in writing to the Director the names 
 of the successful applicants at the examinations 
 for the positions; 
 
 ® Preserve for a year the written examination 
 papers and other documents pertaining thereto, 
 and allow inspection thereof by applicants, and 
 furnish certified copies to them; 
 
 Remove for statutory reasons inspector of 
 mines or cancel certificate of mine manager, 
 mine examiner or hoisting engineer; 
 
 Supervise, control and direct the State mine 
 inspection service. (Sec. 46, Code.) 
 
 The Director is constituted the executive officer of 
 the IVIining Board and is charged with the duty to exe¬ 
 cute its orders, rules and regulations and to issue 
 certificates of qualification to persons certified. (Sec. 
 47, Code.) 
 
 Under the Fire Fighting Equipment Act, the 
 Department of Mines and Minerals is required to— 
 
 Approve chemical fire extinguishers and 
 hand-pump buckets required to be provided for all 
 mines, underground stables, entries or passage¬ 
 ways. Sec. 2j, m.) 
 
 By virtue of the Mining Law, the former State 
 Mining Board, in addition to the foregoing duties, was 
 required to— 
 
11 
 
 Enforce the provisions of the State Mining 
 law (Sec. lb) ; 
 
 Employ such persons as may be necessary for 
 the proper discharge of its powers and duties; 
 
 Prescribe standing or other rules for the con¬ 
 trol and direction of its officers, State mine in¬ 
 spectors and employees; 
 
 Grant upon proper application and evidence 
 permit to operate a second motion engine (Sec. 
 2f): 
 
 Preserve the record of names and addresses 
 of persons certified (Sec. 3b) ; 
 
 Issue citation and investigate charges against 
 State mine inspectors and remove them if charges 
 are true (Sec. 3h) ; 
 
 Divide the State into twelve inspection dis¬ 
 tricts and change the boundaries whenever neces¬ 
 sary without changing the number of the districts 
 (Sec. 4) ; 
 
 Furnish the State mine inspectors an ane¬ 
 mometer, safety lamp and such other instru¬ 
 ments, printing matter and supplies as are neces¬ 
 sary to a discharge of the duties of inspector 
 (Sec. 5d) ; 
 
 Require State mine inspectors to make at 
 least one personal examination of each mine 
 within the district every six months (Sec. 5e) ; 
 
 Order additional survey of mine to the regu¬ 
 lar annual survey; 
 
 Order a correct survey and map when the one 
 made is materially inaccurate or when the oper¬ 
 ator refuses to make survey or map (Sec. 7j, k) ; 
 
 Prescribe specifications for all illuminating 
 oils or other illuminants used in coal mines 
 (Sec. 18) ; 
 
 Furnish certified copies of papers and docu¬ 
 ments to persons interested upon payment or 
 tender of such fees as are paid to Circuit Court 
 
12 
 
 clerks in counties of second class for similar serv¬ 
 ices (Sec. 25c) ; 
 
 . Collect, summarize and compile in an annual 
 coal mining report statistical details relating to. 
 coal mining in the State, especially in relation to 
 vital, sanitary, commercial and industrial condi¬ 
 tions and to the permanent prosperity of the in- 
 dustiT (Sec. lb) ; 
 
 Under the Fire Fighting Equipment Act, the 
 former State Mining Board was required to— 
 
 Cancel and revoke certificates of competency 
 of mine managers who violated said Act and have 
 been convicted of such violation (Sec. 7b) ; 
 
 The Oil and Gas Wells Act and the Powder Act 
 required the State Mining Board to— 
 
 Keep on file statements and maps, giving the 
 location and depth of wells drilled for gas or oil 
 required to be filed with the Mining Board by 
 section 2 of the Oil and Gas Wells Act; 
 
 Test samples of black powder for specific 
 gravity and for moisture content received from 
 State Mining Inspectors under section 4 of the 
 Powder Act. 
 
 12. State Mine Inspectors. 
 
 State Mine Inspectors, under the Mining law of 
 1911, were required to— 
 
 Approve or pass upon the placing of a tem¬ 
 porary mine manager or of a mine examiner for 
 a period not exceeding twenty-three days (Sec. 
 3d, e, g) ; 
 
 Request of the board of supervisors or county 
 commissioners for the appointment of a county 
 mine inspector, and petition the county court for 
 the appointment of such an inspector and an 
 appropriation if the request be not complied with 
 (Sec. 5b) ; 
 
13 
 
 Authorize, in writing, county mine inspectors 
 to exercise all of the powers and duties of the 
 State Mine Inspector (Sec. 5h) ; 
 
 Make personal examinations of each mine in 
 the district at least once in every six months, or 
 oftener if necessary (Sec. 5e) ; 
 
 Measure and determine the amount of air 
 passing in the last cross-cut in each pair of 
 entries in pillar and room mines in the last room 
 of each division in long wall mines and at the 
 inlet and outlet of mines; 
 
 Compare all air measurements with last mine 
 examiner’s and mine manager’s report upon the 
 mine examination book; 
 
 Observe that the legal code of signals be¬ 
 tween the engineer and top and bottom man is 
 established and conspicuously posted (Sec. 5f) ; 
 
 Require the taking of every necessary pre¬ 
 caution for the health and safety of workmen in 
 the mines; 
 
 Demand observance of provisions and re¬ 
 quirements of Mining law (Sec. 5f) ; 
 
 Take prompt action for the enforcement of 
 penalties for violations, etc. (Sec. 5f) ; 
 
 Obtain an order from the circuit court to 
 grant permission to enter mine in case of opera¬ 
 tor’s refusal to permit inspection (Sec. 5h) ; 
 
 Post at the landing of mines in a conspicuous 
 place a notice stating the number of men permit¬ 
 ted to ride on the cage and at what rate of speed, 
 stating what is necessary for the better protec¬ 
 tion of the miners, and giving the date of inspec¬ 
 tion under his signature (Sec. 5i) ; 
 
 Report in writing to the State Mining Board 
 all mine inspections (Sec. 5f) ; 
 
 Test all scales used for the "weighing of coal, 
 call attention to imperfections, direct overhaul¬ 
 ing if necessary, and forbid operation during 
 adjustment (Sec. 5j) ; 
 
14 
 
 Furnish blanks to operators for statistics of 
 wages and conditions of employees (Sec. 5n) ; 
 
 Order additional survey of mine to the regu¬ 
 lar annual survey; 
 
 Order a correct survey and map when the 
 one made is materially incorrect or when the 
 operator refuses to make survey or map (Sec. 
 7j, k) ; 
 
 Order suitable protection against dangers at 
 escapement shafts (Sec. 9d) ; 
 
 Pass upon the size of refuge places (Sec. 
 
 lOj) ; 
 
 Pass in writing upon the number of safety 
 lamps required at each mine (Sec. 13a) ; 
 
 Order, in writing, the proper quantity of air 
 supply for each mine (Sec. 14a, b, 1) ; 
 
 Approve place of doors, curtains or brattices 
 (Sec. 14c) ; 
 
 Pass upon the location of cross-cuts between 
 entries (Sec. 14d) ; 
 
 Pass upon the location of blind pillars (Sec. 
 14e) ; 
 
 Pass upon the necessity of using safety lamps 
 (Sec. 14h) ; 
 
 Require in writing the placing of an attend¬ 
 ant at doors through which less than three driv¬ 
 ers are hauling coal (Sec. 14k) ; 
 
 Sample oils used for illuminating purposes 
 and send to State Mining Board a sample of oils 
 suspected of being inferior to specifications (Sec. 
 18d) ; 
 
 Order in writing additional mine examiner 
 when necessary (Sec. 21a) ; 
 
 Require mine to be examined for gas at 
 shorter intervals than eight hours preceding com¬ 
 mencement of work by day shift (Sec. 21b) ; 
 
 Investigate, assist promptly, attend and take 
 part at inquest in case of personal injuries or loss 
 of life through mine accidents (Sec. 25a, b, c) ; 
 
15 
 
 Furnish proper blanks to mine operators 
 upon which to report deaths and personal injuries 
 (Sec. 25a) ; 
 
 Stop operation of mine and remove offending 
 person whenever mine is operated in disregard of 
 law (Sec. 291)) ; 
 
 Annually within sixty days of June 30, re¬ 
 port to the Mining Board all acts performed and 
 duties discharged within preceding year, and 
 recommend appropriate legislation (Sec. 51). 
 
 By the Miners’ Wages Act, the State Mine In¬ 
 spector was required to— 
 
 Ascertain whether said Act is violated with 
 reference to the manner in which wages are paid; 
 
 Institute suit promptly in case of violation 
 (Sec. 2). 
 
 Under the Fire Fighting Equipment Act, the State 
 Mine^ Inspector was required to— 
 
 File a sworn complaint against any person 
 who violated said Act (Sec. 7e, d). 
 
 By the Explosive and Blasting Act, the State 
 Mine Inspector was required to— 
 
 Sample explosives used for blasting purposes 
 (Sec. 2) ; 
 
 Send samples to the United States Bureau 
 of Mines to test for content (Sec. 3) ; 
 
 Approve plans for the construction of maga¬ 
 zines for storing of explosives (Sec. G) ; 
 
 Under the Powder Act, the State Mine Inspector 
 was required to— 
 
 Sample black blasting powder used for blast¬ 
 ing purposes; 
 
 Send samples to the State Mining Board to 
 be tested (Sec. 4) ; 
 
 The Washrooms’ Act requires the State Mine 
 Inspector to— 
 
 Inspect washrooms and report in writing to 
 the owner or operator its physical and sanitary 
 
16 
 
 condition, recommending such changes as may be 
 necessary (Sec. 3). 
 
 By the Information Act, the State Mine Inspec¬ 
 tor, under the direction of the State Geologist and at 
 such times and in such manner as not to interfere 
 with his primary duties as inspector of mines, is re¬ 
 quired to— 
 
 Procure a true record of the various strata 
 through which coal shafts are sunk, or borings 
 of coal, oil, gas or artesian water are made; 
 
 Determine the altitude of the top of said 
 shafts or bore holes, above some specified point 
 on the nearest railroad, or other readily ascer¬ 
 tained elevation; 
 
 Determine the dip of the coal stratum in all 
 mines; 
 
 Report results of observations from time to 
 time to the State Geologist (Sec. 1). 
 
 IS. Miners" Examining Board.* 
 
 The powers and duties of the Miners’ Examining 
 Board are to— 
 
 Hold monthly examinations in at least 
 twelve convenient places in the State for persons 
 desiring to engage in coal mining; 
 
 Give not less than seven days’ public notice 
 of such examinations, designating the time and 
 place (Sec. 6) ; 
 
 *The Miners’ Examining Board created by the Cod^ is to 
 administer in its name, without any direction, supervision or 
 control by the Director, or by the Mining Board, the act 
 entitled “An Act to provide for the safety of persons em¬ 
 ployed in and about coal mines, and to provide for the 
 examination of persons seeking employment therein, in order 
 that only competent persons may be employed as miners, 
 and to create a Board of Examiners for this purpose and to 
 provide a penalty for the violation of the same, and to re¬ 
 peal” a certain act therein named, approved June 27, 1913, 
 and all amendments thereto. (Sec. 48, Code.) 
 
17 
 
 Collect-a fee of $2.00 for miner’s certificates 
 and pay same over to the State Treasurer on the 
 10th of each month following (Sec. 7) ; 
 
 Examine under oath applicants as to their 
 previous experience as miners (Secs. 8 and 12) ; 
 
 Issue certificates of competency signed by at 
 least two members of the board and sealed with 
 its seal, only when an applicant has had two or 
 more years practical experience as a miner and 
 has answered intelligently and accurately at least 
 twelve practical questions concerning the require¬ 
 ments and qualifications of a practical miner; 
 
 Keep an accurate and detailed account and 
 public record of the board’s proceedings (Sec. 8) ; 
 
 Report violation of Act to State’s attorney 
 of the proper county (Sec. 11) ; 
 
 Annually on the first of March report to the 
 Governor regarding the work done for the year 
 preceding and recommend improved methods for 
 holding examinations (Sec. 9). 
 
 14. Mine Fire Fighting and Rescue Station 
 Commission, 
 
 The Mine Fire Fighting and Rescue Station Com¬ 
 mission, under the Rescue Station Act, was required 
 to— 
 
 Provide by purchase or acquire through gift 
 suitable site^ for rescue stations to serve the 
 northern, the central, and the southern coal fields 
 of 1;he State, and to equip the same (Secs. 1 
 and 3); 
 
 Cooperate with operators, miners and Fed¬ 
 eral organizations in mine rescue work (Sec. 3) ; 
 
 Supervise the work at each of the three sta- 
 , tions; 
 
 Purchase all the necessary supplies; 
 
 • Provide for an attendant to be on duty at 
 each station night and day; 
 
18 
 
 Keep an account and record of rescue work 
 and expenditure (Sec. 7) ; 
 
 HiennualJy report to the Governor concerning 
 mine rescue service performed and money ex¬ 
 pended (Sec. 8). 
 
10 
 
 LAWS. 
 
 MINING LxiW.* 
 
 An Act to revise the laws in relation to the coal 
 mines and subjects rclatin<j thereto, and provid- 
 iny for the health and safety of persons employed 
 therein. Approved June 6, 1911, in force July 1, 
 1911. L. 1911, p. 388. 
 
 State Mininy Board, Appointment, Salary, Poivers 
 and Duties, Aleetinys, Exammatiems, Rules and 
 Reyulations. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represefited in the General Assem¬ 
 bly: (a) That the Governor, with the advice and 
 consent of the Senate, shall appoint a State Mining 
 Board, which shall be composed of five members, two 
 of whom shall be practical coal miners, one a prac¬ 
 ticing coal mine hoisting engineer, and two coal 
 operators.t 
 
 Powers and duties of board.] (b) Said board 
 shall be authorized, empowered and required to make 
 formal inquiry into and pass upon the practical and 
 technological qualifications and personal fitness of 
 men seeking appointment as State inspectors of 
 mines, and of those seeking certificates of competency 
 as mine managers, as hoisting engineers and as mine 
 examiners. Said board also shall have such other pow- 
 
 *This act is al^o referred to as the “Mine and Miners' 
 Act.” 
 
 tThose portions of this section which refer to the estab¬ 
 lishment of a State Mining Board, its organization, and the 
 salary of the members are superseded by the provisions of 
 the Civil Administrative code, creating a similar Board. ' 
 
 V 
 
20 
 
 t 
 
 ers and duties as may be prescribed by the provisions 
 of this Act, or any other Act relating to coal mining. 
 Said board also shall control and direct the State 
 mine inspectors hereinafter provided for, in the dis¬ 
 charge of their duties, and shall have the power and 
 shall in person and through the State mine inspectors, 
 see that all the provisions pf the State mining law are 
 enforced. Said board also shall cause to be collected 
 statistical details relating to coal mining in the State, 
 especially in its relation to the vital, sanitary, com¬ 
 mercial and industrial conditions, and to the perma¬ 
 nent prosperity of said industry; and said board shall 
 cause such statistical details to be compiled and sum¬ 
 marized as a report of said State Mining Board, to be 
 known as the annual coal report. 
 
 Date and term of appointment.] (c) Their 
 appointment shall date from July 1, 1911, and they 
 shall serve for a term of two years, or until their suc¬ 
 cessors are appointed and qualified. They shall also 
 be sworn to a faithful performance of their duties. 
 One of the coal operators member of said board shall 
 be elected as president and one of the coal miners 
 member of said board shall be elected as secretary. 
 The board may appoint a chief clerk and may employ 
 such other persons as may be necessary for the proper 
 discharge of its powers and duties; all of whom shall 
 perform such duties as may be prescribed by the 
 board from time to time, and the board may from 
 time to time also prescribe standing and other rules 
 for the control and direction of its officers and em¬ 
 ployees and of the State mine inspectors. 
 
 Supplies furnished by secretary of state.] 
 (d) The Secretary of State shall assign to the use of 
 the board suitably furnished rooms in the State 
 House, and shall also furnish whatever blanks, blank 
 books, printing, stationery, instruments and supplies 
 the board may require in the discharge of its duties, 
 and for the use of State mine inspectors. 
 
21 
 
 Frequency of meetings.] (e) The board shall 
 hold such meetings from time to time as may be 
 necessary for the proper discharge of its duties. The 
 hoard shall meet at the Capitol on the second Tues¬ 
 day in September of the year 1911, and annually 
 thereafter, for the examination of candidates for ap¬ 
 pointment as State inspectors of mines. Special 
 examinations also may be held whenever for any 
 reason it may become necessary to appoint one or 
 more inspectors. 
 
 For the examination of persons seeking certifi¬ 
 cates of competency as mine managers, hoisting engi¬ 
 neers and mine examiners, the board shall hold meet¬ 
 ings at such times and places within the State as 
 shall, in the judgment of the members, afford the best 
 facilities to the greatest number of candidates. 
 
 Public notice shall be given through the press or 
 otherwise, not less than ten days in advance, an¬ 
 nouncing the time and place at which any examina¬ 
 tions under this section are to be held. 
 
 Rules of procedure.] (f) The examination 
 herein provided for shall be conducted under rules, 
 conditions and regulations prescribed by the board. 
 Such rules shall be made a part of the permanent 
 record of the board, and such of them as relate to 
 candidates shall be, upon application of any candi¬ 
 date, furnished to him by the board; they shall also 
 be of uniform application to all candidates. 
 
 Compensation of members—salary of chief 
 CLERK.] (g) The members of the State Mining Board 
 shall receive as compensation for their services the 
 sum of five dollars ($5) each per day for a term not 
 exceeding one hundred (100) days in any one year, 
 and whatever sums are necessary to reimburse them 
 for such actual and necessary traveling expenses as 
 may be incurred in the discharge of their duties. 
 
 The salary of the chief clerk shall be $2,000 per 
 annum, and he shall be reimbursed for any amounts 
 
22 
 
 expended for actual and necessary traveling expenses 
 in the discharge of his duties. 
 
 All salaries and expenses of the board and of its 
 employees shall be paid upon vouchers duly sworn to 
 by each and approved by the president of the board, 
 or in his absence by the acting president, and by the 
 Governor, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is 
 hereby authorized to draw his w^arrants on the State 
 treasury for the amounts thus shown to be due, pay¬ 
 able out of any money in the treasury not otherwise 
 appropriated. (Amended by Act approved June 27, 
 1913, in force July 1, 1913. L. 1913, p. 411.) 
 
 Registration for Examination, Credentials, Qualifica¬ 
 tion, Cei'tification, Examination Papers. 
 
 §2. (a) An applicant for any certificate herein 
 provided for, before being examined, shall register his 
 name with the State Mining Board and file with the 
 board the credentials required by this Act, to-wit: An 
 affidavit as to all matters of fact establishing his right 
 to receive the examination, and a certificate of good 
 character and temperate habits, signed by at least ten 
 residents of the community in which he resides. 
 
 Examination for inspectors.] (b) Each appli¬ 
 cant for a certificate of competency as State Inspector 
 of Mines shall produce evidence satisfactory to the 
 board that he is a citizen of this State, at least thirty 
 years of age, that heJias had a practical mining ex¬ 
 perience of ten years, of which at least two years shall 
 have been in the State of Illinois, and that he is a 
 man of good repute and temperate habits; he shall 
 pass an examination as to his practical and technolog¬ 
 ical knowledge of mine surveying and mining machin¬ 
 ery and appliances, of the proper development and 
 operation of coal mines, of ventilation in mines, of the 
 nature and properties of mine gases, of first aid to 
 injured, of mine-rescue methods and appliances, of the 
 
23 
 
 .i<eoloj?y of coal measures in this State, and of the laws 
 of tills State relating to coal mines. 
 
 Names certified to the governor.] (c) At the 
 close of each examination for inspectors the hoard 
 shall certify to the Governor the names of all candi¬ 
 dates who have received a rating above the minimum 
 fixed by the rules of the hoard as being persons prop¬ 
 erly qualified for the position of inspector. 
 
 Examination for mine manager.] (d) Each 
 applicant for a certificate of competency as mine 
 manager shall produce evidence satisfactory to the 
 hoard that he is a citizen of the United States, at 
 least twenty-four years of age, that he has had at 
 least four years’ practical mining experience, and that 
 he is a man of good repute and temperate habits; he 
 shall also pass such examination as to his experience 
 in mines and in the management of men, his knowl¬ 
 edge of mine machinery and appliances, the use of 
 surveying and other instruments used in mining, the 
 properties of mine gases, the principles of ventila¬ 
 tion, of first aid to injured, of mine rescue methods 
 and appliances, and the legal duties and responsibil¬ 
 ities of mine managers, as shall be prescribed by the 
 rules of the board. 
 
 For mine managers, second class.] (d) Each 
 applicant for certificate of competency as mine man¬ 
 ager, second class, shall produce evidence satisfactory 
 to the board that he is a citizen of the United States, 
 at least twenty-four years of age, that he has had at 
 least four years’ practical mining experience, and that 
 he is a man of good repute and temperate habits. He 
 shall also submit to and satisfactorily pass such an 
 examination as to his experience in mines and in the 
 management of men, his knowledge of coal mining, 
 mine ventilation and the mining laws of this State 
 and the required duties and responsibilities of second- 
 class mine managers, as shall be prescribed by the 
 rules of the board, and it shall be unlawful to employ 
 
24 
 
 second-class mine managers, or for them to serve in 
 that capacity at mines employing more than ten men. 
 
 Examinations for mine examiners.] (e) Each 
 applicant for a certificate of competency as mine 
 examiners shall produce evidence satisfactory to the 
 board that he is a citizen of the United States, at 
 least twenty-one years of age and of good repute and 
 temperate habits and that he has had at least four 
 years’ practical mining experience. He shall pass an 
 examination as to his experience in mines generating 
 dangerous gases, his practical and technological 
 knowledge of the nature and properties of fire-damp, 
 the laws of ventilation, the structure and use of safety 
 lamps, and the laws of this State relating to safe¬ 
 guards against fires from any source in mines. He 
 shall also possess a knowledge of first aid to injured 
 and of mine rescue methods. 
 
 Examination for hoisting engineers.] (f) 
 Each applicant for a certificate of competency as 
 hoisting engineer shall produce evidence satisfactory 
 to the board that he is a citizen of the United States, 
 at least twenty-one years of age, that he has had at 
 least two years’ experience as fireman or engineer of 
 hoisting plant, and is of good repute and temperate 
 habits. He shall pass an examination as to his experi¬ 
 ence in handling hoisting machinery, and as to his 
 practical and technological knowledge of the construc¬ 
 tion, cleaning and care of steam boilers, the care and 
 adjustment of hoisting engines, the management and 
 deficiency of pumps, ropes and winding apparatus, 
 and as to his knowledge of the laws of this State in 
 relation to signals and the hoisting and lowering of 
 men at mines. 
 
 The State Mining Board shall have power to 
 grant a permit to operate a second motion engine at 
 any mine employing not more than ten men, to any 
 person recommended to the board by the State Mine 
 Inspector of the district: Provided, that the applicant 
 for such permit shall have filed with the State Mining 
 
25 
 
 Board satisfactory evidence that he is a citizen of the 
 United States, that he has had at least one year’s 
 experience in operating a steam engine and steam 
 boiler and understands the handling and care of the 
 same. Such application shall he accompanied by a 
 statement from at least three persons who will testify 
 from their personal knowledge of the applicant that 
 he is a man of good repute and j^ersonal habits, and 
 that he has, in their judgment, a knowledge of and 
 experience in handling boilers and engines as required 
 in this section. Such i)ermit shall apply only to the 
 mine for which it was issued. 
 
 Examination papers preserved.] (g) There shall 
 be written and an oral examination of applicants as 
 may be prescribed by the rules of the board; and all 
 written examination papers and all other papers of 
 applicants shall be kept on file by the board for not 
 less than one year, during which time any applicant 
 shall have the right to inspect his said papers at all 
 reasonable times; and any applicant shall be entitled 
 to certified copy of any or all of his said papers upon 
 payment of a reasonable copy fee therefor. (Amended 
 by act approved June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915. 
 L. 1915, p. 505.) 
 
 Certificate of Competency, Requisites, Records, Un¬ 
 lawful Employment, Temporary Employment, 
 Removal of Inspectors, Cancellation of Certifi¬ 
 cates, 
 
 § 3. (a) The certificates provided for in this Act 
 shall be issued under the signature and seal of the 
 State Mining Board, to all those who receive a rating 
 above the minimum fixed by the rules of the board; 
 such certificates shall contain the full name, age and 
 place of birth of the recipient and the length and 
 nature of his previous service in or about coal mines. 
 
 Record to be preserved.] (b) The board shall 
 make and preserve a record of the names and ad¬ 
 dresses of all persons to whom certificates are issued. 
 
26 
 
 Effect of certificates.] (c) The certificates 
 provided for in this Act shall entitle the holders 
 thereof to accept and discharge at any mine in this 
 State, the duties for which they are declared quali¬ 
 fied. 
 
 Unla’wful to employ other than certified mine 
 MANAGER.] (d) It shall be unlawful for the operator 
 of any coal mine to have in his service as mine man¬ 
 ager at his mine, any person who does not hold a 
 certificate of competency issued by the State Mining 
 Board of this State: Provided, that whenever any 
 exigency arises by which it is impossible for any 
 operator to secure the immediate services of a certifi¬ 
 cated mine manager, he may place any trustworthy 
 and experienced man of the mine inspection district in 
 charge of his mine to act as temporary mine manager 
 for a period not exceeding seven days, and with the 
 approval of the State Inspector of the district, for a 
 further period not exceeding twenty-three days. 
 
 Unlawful to employ other than certificated 
 MINE EXAMINERS.] (e) It Shall be unlawful for the 
 operator of any mine to have in his service as mine 
 examiner any person who does not hold a certificate 
 of competency issued by the State Mining Board: 
 Provided, that any one holding a mine manager's 
 certificate may serve as mine examiner; but in any 
 mine employing more than twenty-five (25) men, the 
 mine manager shall not act in the capacity of mine 
 examiner while acting as mine manager; And, pro¬ 
 vided, whenever any exigency arises by which it is 
 impossible for any operator to secure the immediate 
 services of a certificated examiner, he may employ 
 any trustworthy and experienced man of the mine 
 inspection district to act as temporary mine examiner 
 for a period not exceeding seven days, and with the 
 approval of the State Inspector of the district, for a 
 further period not exceeding twenty-three days. 
 
27 
 
 Unlawful to fjmploy other than certificated 
 HOISTING ENGINEER.] (f) It shall 1)6 unlawful for the 
 operator of any mine to permit any person who does 
 not hold a certificate of competency as hoisting engi¬ 
 neer issued by the State Mining Board, to hoist or 
 lower men, or to have charge of the hoisting engine 
 svhen men are underground, except as provided in 
 section 2, paragraph (f). 
 
 Temporary employment of uncertificated per¬ 
 sons NOT EXTENDED.] (g) The employment of persons 
 who do not hold certificates as mine managers and 
 mine examiners, shall in no case exceed the limit 
 of time specified herein, and the State Inspector shall 
 not approve of the employment of such persons be¬ 
 yond the twenty-three day limit. 
 
 Removal of inspectors.] (h) Upon a petition 
 signed by not less than three coal operators, or ten 
 coal miners, setting forth that any State inspector of 
 mines neglects his duties, or that he is incompetent, 
 or that he is guilty of malfeasance in office, or guilty 
 of any act tending to the imlawful injury of miners 
 or operators of mines, it shall be the duty of the 
 State Mining Board to issue a citation to the said 
 inspector to appear before it within a period of fifteen 
 days on a day fixed for said hearing, when the said 
 board shall investigate the allegations of the peti¬ 
 tioners ; and if the said board shall find that the said 
 inspector is neglectful of his duty, or is incompetent, 
 or that he is guilty of malfeasance in office, or guilty 
 of any act tending to the injury of miners or opera¬ 
 tors of mines, the said board shall declare the office 
 of said inspector vacant, and a properly qualified per¬ 
 son shall be duly appointed, in the manner provided 
 for in this Act, to fill said vacancy. 
 
 Cancellation of certificates.] (i) The certifi¬ 
 cate of any mine manager, hoisting engineer or mine 
 examiner, may be cancelled and revoked by the State 
 Mining Board upon notice and hearing as hereinafter 
 provided, if it shall be established in the judgment of 
 
28 
 
 said board that the holder thereof has become un¬ 
 worthy to hold said certificate by reason of violation 
 of the law, intemperate habits, incapacity, abuse of 
 authority or for any other cause: Provided, that any 
 person against whom charges or complaints are made 
 Iiereunder shall have the right to appear before said 
 board and defend against said charges, and he shall 
 have fifteen days’ notice in writing of such charges 
 previous to such hearing: Provided, further, that the 
 board in its discretion may suspend the certificate of 
 any person charged as aforesaid, pending such hear¬ 
 ing, but said hearing shall not be unreasonably 
 deferred. (Amended by act approved June 28, 1915, 
 in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, p. 505.) 
 
 Inspection Districts. 
 
 § 4. The State shall be divided into twelve inspec¬ 
 tion districts, said divisions to be made by the State 
 Mining Board. The board may also change from time 
 to time the boundaries of said districts in order to 
 more equally distribute the labor and expenses of the 
 several mine inspectors, but this provision shall not 
 be construed as authorizing the State Mining Board 
 to increase the number of districts. 
 
 State Mine Inspector's, Appointment; County Inspec¬ 
 tors, Appointment; Power's and Duties; Bond; 
 
 Instruments; Ea^aminations; Sealer of Weights; 
 
 Annual Report; Reports try Operators. 
 
 § 5. (a) From the names certified by the State 
 Mining Board, the Governor shall select and appoint 
 twelve State mine inspectors; that is to say, one in¬ 
 spector for each of the twelve inspection districts 
 provided for in this Act; or more, if, in the future, 
 additional inspection districts shall be created, and 
 their commissions shall be for a term of two years 
 from July 1, Provided, the term of any State Mine 
 Inspector in office July 1, 1911, shall be extended to 
 October 1, 1911: And, provided, any State inspector 
 
29 
 
 in actual service and good standing and who has 
 passed one examination under this Act may ])e reap¬ 
 pointed for the next ensuing term, without further 
 certification, but shall not be so reappointed more tlian 
 tliree times: Provided, further, no man shall he eligi¬ 
 ble for appointment as a State inspector of mines who 
 lias any pecuniary interest in any coal mine in 
 Illinois. 
 
 (b) The board of supervisors in counties under 
 township organization, or commissioners in counties 
 not under township organization of any county in 
 which coal is produced, upon the written request of 
 the State Inspector of Mines for the district in which 
 said county is located, shall appoint as assistant to 
 such State inspector, a county inspector of mines who 
 shall work under the direction of such State inspector, 
 but no person shall be eligible for appointment as 
 county inspector who does not hold a State certificate 
 of competency as mine manager, and the compensation 
 of such county inspector shall be fixed by the county 
 board at not less than five dollars per day, to be paid 
 out of the county treasury. 
 
 If any county board shall fail or refuse to appoint 
 a suitable person as county mine inspector, or to make 
 an adequate appropriation for such county mine in¬ 
 spector when appointed within ninety days after the 
 filing of a written request by the State Inspector of 
 Mines in and for the district in which such county is 
 located, then the State Mine Inspector or chief clerk 
 of the State Mining Board, may file a petition verified 
 by oath in the County Court of such county, setting 
 forth the condition of coal mining in said county 
 which requires the appointment of such county mine 
 inspector, the request in writing as aforesaid by the 
 State Inspector, and the failure and refusal by the 
 county* board to make such appointment or such ap¬ 
 propriation as the case may be; and the prayer of 
 such petition shall be that the judge of such County 
 Court appoint a county mine inspector or order the 
 
30 
 
 county board to make such appropriation; and there¬ 
 upon such County Court shall cause summons to 
 issue, commanding the sheriff of the county that he 
 summon the county board to be and appear at a term 
 of court therein named, returnable as summons in other 
 suits at law, and to show cause, if any there be, why 
 such county mine inspector should not be appointed as 
 prayed in such petition; which summons may be 
 served as other summons in which a corporation is 
 defendant; which petition and any answer thereto 
 may be set down for hearing before such County 
 Court at an early date; and if upon such hearing it 
 shall appear to the court that sufficient cause has not 
 been shown why such county mine inspector should 
 not be appointed, such court may make a finding 
 accordingly, and the judge thereof may make such 
 appointment; and the order making such appointment 
 shall be entered of record in the cause and the person 
 so appointed shall act as such county mine inspector 
 until the further order of court or until such time, not 
 less than one year thereafter, as such county board 
 shall have appointed a successor to the person ap¬ 
 pointed by the judge of such court, and such successor 
 shall have qualified to act; and the judge of- such 
 court may in his discretion remove the inspector by 
 him appointed and appoint a successor, and may order 
 the county board from time to time to make an ade¬ 
 quate appropriation for such county mine inspector 
 and shall have power to punish as for contempt of 
 court any disobedience to any such order. 
 
 An appeal shall lie from any final order of the 
 County Court in such proceeding to the Appellate 
 Court of the State, but the operation of such order 
 shall not thereby be stayed unless by an order made 
 and entered by such Appellate Court or some, judge 
 thereof. 
 
 The State inspector may authorize any county 
 inspector in his district to assume and discharge all 
 
31 
 
 the duties and exercise all the powers of a State 
 inspector in the county for which he is appointed, in 
 the absence of a State inspector; but such authority 
 must be conferred in writing and the county inspector 
 must produce the same as evidence of his powers upon 
 the demand of any person affected by his acts; and 
 the bond of said State inspector shall be holden for 
 the faithful performance of the duties of such as¬ 
 sistant inspector. 
 
 Bond.] (c) State inspectors, before entering 
 upon their duties as such must take oath of office, as 
 provided for by the Constitution and enter into a bond 
 to the State in the sum of five thousand dollars 
 ($5,000) for State mine inspectors, with sureties to be 
 approved by the Governor, conditioned upon the faith¬ 
 ful performance of their duties in every particular, as 
 required by this Act. Said bonds, with the approval 
 of the Governor endorsed thereon, together with the 
 oath of oflSce, shall be deposited with the Secretary 
 of State. 
 
 Instruments.] (d) The State Mining Board 
 shall furnish to each of said State inspectors an 
 anemometer, a safety-lamp and such other instruments 
 and such blanks, blank-books, stationery, printing and 
 supplies as may be required by said inspectors in the 
 discharge of their official duties. Said instruments 
 and supplies shall be paid for on bills of particulars 
 certified by the proper officers of the board and ap¬ 
 proved by the Governor; and the Auditor of Public 
 Accounts shall draw his warrants on the State treas¬ 
 ury for the amounts thus shown to be due, payable 
 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise 
 appropriated. 
 
 Examination of mines.] (e) State inspectors 
 shall devote their whole time and attention to the 
 duties of their respective offices. State inspectors shall 
 make a personal examination at least once in every 
 six months, or oftener if necessary, of each mine in 
 their district in which ten or more men are employed. 
 
32 
 
 The State Mining Board also may require State in¬ 
 spectors personally to examine any or all other mines 
 in their respective districts. Every mine in the State 
 shall be examined at least once in every six months 
 by either a State or county mine inspector. 
 
 Scope of examination.] (f) Every State inspec¬ 
 tor in the regular inspection of mines shall measure 
 with an anemometer and determine the amount of air 
 passing in the last cross-cut in each pair of entries in 
 pillar and room mines, or in the last room of each 
 division in long wall mines. He shall also measure 
 with an anemometer and determine the amount of air 
 passing at the inlet and outlet of the mines; and he 
 shall compare all such air measurements with the last 
 report of the mine examiner and the mine manager 
 upon the mine examination book of the mine. He 
 must observe that the legal code of signals between 
 the engineer and top man and bottom man is estab¬ 
 lished and conspicuously posted for the information 
 of all employees. 
 
 State inspectors also shall require that every 
 necessary precaution be taken to insure the health 
 and safety of the workmen employed in the mines, 
 and that the provisions and requirements of all the 
 mining laws of this State are obeyed. 
 
 State inspectors shall render written reports of 
 mine inspections made by them to the State Mining 
 Board in such form and manner as shall be required 
 by the board. State inspectors shall take prompt 
 action for the enforcement of the penalties provided 
 for violation of the mining laws. 
 
 Authority to enter.] (g) It shall be lawful for 
 State inspectors to enter, examine and inspect any 
 and all coal mines and the machinery belonging 
 thereto, at all reasonable times, by day or by night, 
 but so as not to unreasonably obstruct or hinder the 
 working of such coal mine, and the operator of every 
 such coal mine is hereby required to furnish all neces- 
 
33 
 
 sary facilities for making such examination and in¬ 
 spection. 
 
 Procedure in case of objection.] (h) If any 
 operator shall refuse to permit such inspection or to 
 furnish the necessary facilities for making such ex¬ 
 amination and inspection, the inspector shall file his 
 affidavit, setting forth such refusal, with the 
 of the Circuit Court in said county in which said 
 mine is situated, either in term time or vacation, or, 
 in the absence of said judge, with a master in chan¬ 
 cery in said county in which said mine is situated, 
 and obtain an order on such owner, agent or operator 
 so refusing as aforesaid, commanding him to permit 
 and furnish such necessary facilities for the inspec¬ 
 tion of such coal mine, or he adjudged to stand in 
 contempt of court and punished accordingly. 
 
 Notice to be posted.] (i) The State inspector 
 shall post in some conspicuous place at the top of 
 each mine inspected by him. a plain statement show¬ 
 ing what in his judgment is necessary for the better 
 protection of the lives and health of persons employed 
 in such mine; such statement shall give the date of 
 inspection and be signed by the inspector. He shall 
 post a notice at the landing used by the men, stating 
 what number of men will be permitted to ride on the 
 cage at one time and the rate of speed at which men 
 may be hoisted and lowered on the cages. 
 
 Sealer of weights.] (j) State inspectors are 
 hereby made ex officio sealer of weights and measures 
 in their respective district, and as such are empow¬ 
 ered to test all scales used to weigh coal at coal 
 mines. Upon the written request of any mine owner 
 or operator, or of ten coal miners employed at any 
 one mine, it shall be the duty of the inspector to test 
 any scale or scales at such mine against which com¬ 
 plaint is directed, and if he shall find that they or any 
 of them do not weigh correctly, he shall call the at¬ 
 tention of the mine owner or operator to the fact, and 
 direct that said scale or scales be at once overhauled 
 
34 
 
 and readjusted so as to indicate only true and exact 
 weights, and he shall forbid the further operation of 
 such mine until such scales are adjusted. In the 
 event that such tests shall conflict with any test made 
 by any county sealer of weights, or under and by 
 virtue of any municipal ordinance or regulation, then 
 the test by such mine inspector shall prevail. 
 
 Test weights.’] (k) For the purpose of carrying 
 out the provisions of this Act, each State inspector 
 shall be furnished 1)5’ the State with a complete set 
 of standard weights suitable for testing the accuracy 
 of tract (track) scales and of all smaller scales at 
 mines, said test weights to be paid for on bills of par¬ 
 ticulars, certified b 5 ’ the Secretary of State and ap¬ 
 proved by the Governor. Such test weights shall re¬ 
 main in the custod 5 ’ of the inspector for use at any 
 point witliin his district, and for any amounts ex¬ 
 pended by him for the storage, transportation or 
 handling of the same, he shall be fully reimbursed 
 upon making entry of the proper items in his expense 
 voucher. 
 
 Inspectors' annual reports.] (1) Each State 
 Inspector of Mines shall, within sixty days after June 
 30 of each 5 ’ear, iirepare and forward to the State 
 Mining Board a formal report of his acts during the 
 5 ’ear in the discharge of his duties, with any recom¬ 
 mendations as to legislation he may deem necessary 
 on the subject of mining, and shall collect and tabu¬ 
 late upon blanks furnished by said board all desired 
 statistics of mines and miners within his district to 
 accompan 5 ’ said annual report. 
 
 liEPORTS TO BE PUBLISHED.] (m) Ou the receipt 
 of said inspectors’ reports the chief clerk of the State 
 Mining Board shall compile and summarize the same, 
 to be included in the report of said board, to be 
 known as the annual coal report, which shall, within 
 four months thereafter, be bound, printed and trans¬ 
 mitted to the Governor for the information of the 
 General Assembly and the public. The printing and 
 
35 
 
 binding: of said reports shall be provided for by the 
 Commissioners of State Contracts in like manner and 
 in like numbers as they provide for the publication of 
 other otficial reports to the Governor. 
 
 Reports by operator.] (n) Every coal operator 
 shall, within thirty days after June 30 of each year, 
 furnish to the State Mine Inspector of the district, on 
 blanks furnished by him prior to said June 30, sta¬ 
 tistics of the wages and conditions of their employees 
 as required by law. The failure of any inspector to 
 forward to the State Mining Board his formal report, 
 as provided in paragraph one (1) hereof, or the fail¬ 
 ure of any coal operator to furnish to the State Mine 
 Inspector of the district the statistics provided for 
 lierein, shall be adjudged a misdemeanor and be sub¬ 
 ject to a fine of $100. (Amended by Act approved 
 June 28, 1915; in force July 1, 1915; L. 1915, p. 505.) 
 
 Pay of Inspectors. 
 
 § 6. Repealed by implication. (See Civil Admin- 
 instrative Code.) 
 
 Maps and Plans, Copies, Surveys, Abandoned Mines, 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 § 7. (a) The operator of every coal mine in the 
 State shall make, or cause to be made, an accurate 
 map or plan of such mine, drawn to a scale not 
 smaller than 200 feet to the inch. All measurements 
 shall be in feet and decimals of a foot. On such 
 maps shall appear the name of the State, county and 
 township in which the mine is located, the designa¬ 
 tion of the mine, the name of the company or 
 owner, the certificate of the mining engineer or sur¬ 
 veyor as to the accuracy and date of the survey, the 
 north point and the scale to which the drawing is 
 made.* 
 
 *The provision requiring the making of mine maps in aid 
 of the regulation of mines is within the constitutional power 
 of the legislature to establish police regulations for the 
 operation of mines. Daniels v, Hilgard (1875, 77 Ill. 640.) 
 
36 
 
 Surface survey.] (b) Such map or plan shall 
 accurately show the surface boundary lines of the 
 coal rights pertaining to each mine, and all sections 
 or quarter-section lines or corners within the same; 
 the lines of town lots and streets; the tracks and side¬ 
 tracks of all railroads, and the location of all wagon 
 roads, rivers, streams, ponds, location and depth of 
 holes drilled for oil, gas’ or water that penetrate a 
 workable coal seam, and the elevation above the coal 
 seam of any stream or body of water that might 
 eudanger the mine. 
 
 Underground survey.] (c) For the underground 
 workings, said maps shall show all shafts, slopes, 
 tunnels or other openings to the surface or to the 
 workings of a contiguous mine; all excavations, 
 entries, rooms and cross-cuts; the location of the 
 fan or furnace and the direction of the air currents; 
 the location of pumps, hauling engines, engine planes, 
 abandoned works, fire walls and standing water; and 
 the outcrop line of the seam, if any, on the property. 
 
 The general outline of all areas in which pillars 
 have been drawn shall be indicated on the map. 
 
 Each underground map also shall show, in feet 
 and decimals thereof, the elevation of the floor of the 
 coal at reasonable intervals on the main entries and 
 cross entries from the bottom of the shaft to the face 
 of the workings ; such elevations shall be referred to 
 the floor of the coal at the bottom of the hoisting 
 siiafr. 
 
 Map for every seam.] (d) A separate and simi¬ 
 lar map, drawn to the same scale, shall be made of 
 each and every seam, which, after the passage of this 
 Act, shall be worked in any mine, and the maps of all 
 such seams shall show all shafts, inclined planes or 
 other passageways connecting the same. 
 
 Separate maps- for the surface.] (e) A sep¬ 
 arate map also shall be made of the surface when¬ 
 ever the surface buildings, lines or objects are so 
 numerous as to obscure the details of the mine work- 
 
37 
 
 ings if drawn upon the same sheet with them, and in 
 such case the surface map shall be drawn on transpar¬ 
 ent cloth or paper, so that it can he laid upon the map 
 of the underground workings, and thus indicate the 
 relation of lines and objections on the surface to the 
 excavations of the mine. 
 
 The dip.] (f) Each map shall also show by 
 profile drawing and measurements, in feet and deci¬ 
 mals thereof, the rise and dip of the seam from the 
 bottom of the shaft in either direction to the face of 
 the workings. 
 
 Copies for inspectors and recorders.] (g) The 
 original or true copies of all such maps shall be kept 
 in the office at the mine, and one true copy thereof 
 shall be furnished to the State inspector of mines for 
 the district in which said mine is located, and one 
 shall be filed in the office of the recorder of the 
 county in which the mine is located, within thirty 
 days after the completion of the same. The maps so 
 delivered to the inspector and to the recorder shall 
 remain in the custody of said inspector and recorder 
 during their respective terms of office, and be deliv¬ 
 ered by them to their successors in office. They shall 
 be kept at the ofllce of the inspector and of the re¬ 
 corder, and be open to the examination of all persons 
 interested in the same, but such examination shall be 
 made only in the presence of the inspector or the 
 recorder. Neither the inspector nor the county 
 recorder shall permit any copies of the same to be 
 made without the written consent of‘the operator or 
 the owner of the property. 
 
 The county recorder shall properly index such 
 map as part of the title record of the property af¬ 
 fected. 
 
 A copy of each map and extensions to the same 
 shall be furnished the mine rescue station commission 
 for use in connection with rescue work only. 
 
 Annual Surveys.] (h) An extension of the last 
 preceding survey of every mine in active operation 
 
38 
 
 shall be made once in every twelve months prior to 
 July 1, of every year, and the results of said survey, 
 with the date thereof shall be promptly and ac¬ 
 curately entered upon the original maps and all copies 
 of the same, so as to show all changes in plan or new 
 work in the mine, and all extensions of the old work¬ 
 ings to the most advanced face or boundary of said 
 workings which have been made since the last preced¬ 
 ing survey. The State inspector, the county recorder 
 and the rescue station commission shall be furnished 
 with a copy of the said extended map or of the ex¬ 
 tensions to said map. 
 
 Abandoned mines.] (i) When any coal mine is 
 worked out or is about to be abandoned or indefinitely 
 closed, the operator of the same shall make, or cause 
 to be made, a final survey of such mine; to show the 
 entire worked out area when the mine was closed, 
 and the results of the same shall be duly extended on 
 all maps of the mines and copies thereof herein re¬ 
 quired to be filed. * The shaft, slope or drift opening 
 into any such abandoned mine shall be kept securely 
 enclosed. 
 
 Special survey.] (j) The State inspector of 
 mines, or the State Mining Board, may order a survey 
 to be made of the workings of any mine in addition to 
 the regular annual survey, the results to be extended 
 on the maps of the same and the copies thereof, when¬ 
 ever the safety of the workmen, unlawful injury to 
 the surface, unlawful encroachment upon adjoining 
 property, or the safety of an adjoining mine re¬ 
 quires it. 
 
 If the State inspector of mines or the State Min¬ 
 ing Board shall believe any map required by this Act 
 is materially inaccurate or imperfect, the State 
 inspector or State Mining Board is authorized to 
 make, or cause to be made, a correct survey and map 
 at the expenses of the operator, the cost recoverable 
 as for debt, provided if such test surveys shows the 
 operator's map to be correct, the State shall be liable 
 
39 
 
 for the expense incurred, payable in such manner as 
 other State accounts incurred l)y the State Mining 
 Board. 
 
 Penalties for failure.] (k. If an operator of 
 any mine refuses or wilfully neglects, for a period of 
 three months, to furnish the said State inspector, the 
 county recorder and the manager of the rescue sta¬ 
 tions the map or plan of such mine, or a copy thereof, 
 or of the extensions thereto, as provided for in this 
 Act, such operator shall be deemed guilty of a mis¬ 
 demeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined 
 not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred 
 dollars, in the discretion of the court, and shall stand 
 committed to the county jail until such fine is paid, 
 and, in addition thereto, the State inspector or State 
 Mining Board is hereby authorized to make, or cause 
 to be made, an accurate map or plan of such mine at 
 the expense of the operator thereof; and the cost of 
 the same may be recovered by law from the operator 
 in the same manner as other debts by suit, in the 
 name of the State inspector or the State Mining 
 Board, and for his or its use, and copies of the same 
 shall be filed by him or the board, one each with said 
 recorder and Mine Rescue Commission. (Amended 
 by Act approved June 28, 1915; in force July 1, 1915; 
 L. 1915, p. 505.) 
 
 Sinking Shafts, Inspection. 
 
 § 8. (a) Any shaft or other opening in process of 
 sinking, or driving, for the purpose of mining coal, 
 shall be subject to the inspection of the State in¬ 
 spector of mines for the district in which said shaft 
 or opening is located. 
 
 (b) Over every shaft that is being sunk or shall 
 hereafter be sunk, there shall be a safe and sub¬ 
 stantial structure to support sheaves or pulley ropes 
 at a height not less than 15 feet above the tipping 
 place. The landing platform of such shaft shall be so 
 
40 
 
 arranged that material can not fall into the shaft 
 while the bucket is being emptied or taken from the 
 hoisting rope. If provisions are made to land a 
 bucket on a truck, said truck and platform shall be 
 so arranged that material can not fall into the shaft. 
 
 (c) Rock or coal shall not be hoisted except in a 
 bucket or on a cage when men are in the bottom of 
 the shaft; and said bucket or cage must be connected 
 to the hoisting rope by a safety hook, clevis or other 
 safety attachment. The rope shall be fastened to the 
 side of the drum and not less than three coils of rope 
 shall remain on the drum. In shafts over 100 feet in 
 depth, suitable provision shall be made to prevent the 
 bucket from swinging while being lowered or hoisted, 
 and guides provided for this purpose shall be main¬ 
 tained at a distance of not more than 75 feet from the 
 bottom of the shaft. 
 
 (d) An efficient brake shall be attached to the 
 drum of the engine used for hoisting in shaft sinking, 
 and the drum shall be provided with a flange on each 
 end not less than 4 inches in height. 
 
 (e) Not more than four persons shall be lowered 
 or hoisted in or on a bucket in a shaft at one time, 
 and no person shall ride on a loaded bucket. 
 
 (f) All blasts in shaft sinking shall be exploded 
 ])y electric battery. 
 
 (g) Provisions shall also be made for the proper 
 ventilation of shafts while being sunk. 
 
 (h) No one but a certificated hoisting engineer 
 shall be in charge of the hoisting engines while a 
 shaft is being sunk. 
 
 Escapement Shafts, Cages, Stairivays and Passage- 
 
 icays, Adjacent Mines, Communications, Number 
 
 of Employees. 
 
 §9. (a) For every coal mine in this State, 
 whether worked by shaft, slope or drift, there shall 
 be provided and maintained, in addition to the hoist¬ 
 ing shaft, or other place of delivery, an escapement 
 
41 
 
 shaft or opening to the surface, or an underground 
 communicating passageway with a contiguous mine, 
 so that there shall be at least two distinct and avail¬ 
 able means of egress to all persons employed in such 
 coal mines. 
 
 Distant from main shaft.] (b) In mines sunk 
 after the passage of this Act, the first escapement 
 shaft shall be separated from the main shaft by such 
 extent of natural strata as may be agreed upon by 
 the inspector of the district and the owner of the 
 property, but the distance between the main shaft 
 and the escapement shaft shall not be less than 500 
 feet nor more than 2,000 feet; Provided, that in mines 
 employing ten (10) men or less the distance between 
 the hoisting shaft and the escapement shaft shall not 
 be less than two hundred and fifty (250) feet. 
 
 Unlawful to employ more than ten men.] (c) 
 It shall be unlawful to employ underground, at any 
 one time, more men than in the judgment of the 
 inspector are necessary to complete speedily the con- 
 . nections with the escapement shaft or adjacent mine; 
 and said number must not exceed ten men at any one 
 time for any purpose in said mine until such escape¬ 
 ment or connection is completed. 
 
 The time allowed for completing such escapement 
 shaft or making such connections with an adjacent 
 mine, as is required by the terms of this Act, shall be 
 three months for shafts 200 feet or less in depth, and 
 six months for shafts less than 500 feet and more 
 than 200 feet, and nine months for all other mines, 
 slopes or drifts, or connections with adjacent mines. 
 ^The time to date in all cases from the hoisting of 
 coal from the hoisting shaft: Py'ovided, that in mines 
 employnig ten (10) men or less, the time for com¬ 
 pleting the escapement shaft shall not be more than 
 six months from the time of hoisting coal. 
 
 Stairways or cages.] (d) The escapement shaft 
 at every mine opened after the passage of this Act 
 shall be equipped ^yith a substantial stairway,, set at 
 
42 
 
 
 an angle not greater than forty-five degrees, which 
 shall be provided with hand rails and with platforms 
 or landings at each turn of the stairway: Provided, 
 that all coal mines more than two hundred (200) feet 
 hi depth, opened on or after July 1, 1919, the escape¬ 
 ment shaft shall be equipped with both a cage and 
 stairway: Provided, further, that if the coal mine is 
 equipped with a stairway in the main shaft, no stair¬ 
 way shall be required in the escapement shaft. 
 
 If any escapement shaft, at the time of the pas¬ 
 sage of this Act, be equipped with a cage for hoisting 
 men, such shaft, cage and all equipment used in con¬ 
 nection therewith must conform to the requirements 
 of this Act in reference to the hoisting and lowering 
 of men. 
 
 Where an escapement way is connected to a com¬ 
 partment in which coal is hoisted in such manner that 
 men using the escapement way are endangered by 
 falling coal or by themselves falling into such hoist¬ 
 ing compartment, the State Mine Inspector shall have 
 powder to order suitable protection against such 
 dangers. 
 
 Passageways to escapement.] (e) Such escape¬ 
 ment shaft or opening or communication with a con¬ 
 tiguous mine as aforesaid, shall be constructed in con¬ 
 nection with every seam of coal worked in such mine, 
 and all passagew^ays communicating with the escape¬ 
 ment shaft or place of exit, from the main hauling 
 ways to said place of exit, shall be maintained fi*ee 
 of obstruction at least 5 feet high and 5 feet wide. 
 Such passageways must be so graded and drained 
 that it will be impossible for water to accumulate in 
 any depression or dip of the same in quantities suf¬ 
 ficient to obstruct the free and safe passage of men. 
 No passageway to an escapement shaft shall pass 
 through a stable. At all points where the passageway 
 to the escapement shaft or other place of exit is 
 intersected by other roadways or entries, conspicuous 
 signboards shall be placed indicating the direction it 
 
43 
 
 is necessary to take in order to reach such place of 
 exit. 
 
 Communications with adjacent mines.] (f) 
 When operators of adjacent mines have, by agree¬ 
 ment, established underground communications be¬ 
 tween said mines as an escapement outlet for the men 
 employed in both, the intervening doors shall remain 
 unlocked and readj^ at all times for immediate use. 
 
 AVhen such communication has once been estab¬ 
 lished between contiguous mines, the operator of 
 either shall not close the same without the consent of 
 the operator of the contiguous mine and of the State 
 inspector for the district: ProtHdcd, that when either 
 operator desires to abandon mining operations the 
 expense and duty of maintaining such communication 
 shall devolve upon the party continuing the operations 
 and using the same. (Amended by Act approved June 
 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, p. 505.) 
 
 Gates, Lights, Hoisting Equipnicnt, Brakes, Flanges, 
 
 Rope Fastenings, Indieator, Signals, Gauges, 
 
 Safety Valves, Boiler Inspection, Run-around, 
 
 Refuge Places, Obstructions, Inspection. 
 
 § 10. (a) The upper and lower landing at the 
 
 top of each shaft, and the opening of each inter¬ 
 mediate seam from or to the shaft, shall be kept 
 clear and free from loose materials, and shall l)e pro¬ 
 tected with automatic or other gates, such gates to be 
 of good, serviceable construction for the purpose for 
 which they are designed, namely, to prevent either 
 men or materials from falling into the shaft. At the 
 top landing cage supports, where necessary, must be 
 carefully set and adjusted so as to securely hold the 
 cage when at rest. 
 
 Lights on landings.] (b) Whenever the hoist¬ 
 ing or lowering of men occurs before daylight or after 
 dark, or when the landing at which men take or leave 
 the cage is at all obscured by steam or otherwise, 
 there must always be maintained at such landing a 
 
44 
 
 light sufficient to show the landing and surrounding 
 objects distinctly. Likewise, as long as there are men 
 underground in any mine the operator shall maintain 
 a good and sufficient light at the bottom of the shaft 
 thereof, so that persons coming to the bottom may 
 clearly discern the cage and objects in the vicinity. 
 
 Hoistixg equipment.] (c) Every shaft in which 
 men are hoisted and lowered must be equipped with a 
 cage, or cages, fitted to guide-rails running from the 
 top to the bottom. Said cages must be safely con¬ 
 structed ; they must be furnished with sheet-metal 
 covers adequate to protect persons riding thereon 
 from falling objects; they must be equipped with 
 safety catches. Every cage on which persons are car¬ 
 ried must be fitted with iron bars or rings in proper 
 place aud sufficient number to furnish a secure hand¬ 
 hold for every person permitted to ride thereon. There 
 shall be attached to every cage on which men are, or 
 may be, hoisted or lowered, a horn or other device 
 with which signals can be given on the cage. Hoisting 
 ropes when socketed at the cage shall be cut off and 
 resocketed at least once each six months and a notice 
 shall be posted in the engine room giving the date 
 when the rope was installed and when resocketed. 
 
 (d) In connection with every hoisting engine 
 used for hoisting or lowering of men there shall be 
 provided as follows : ^ 
 
 Brake on drum.] (1) A good and sufficient brake 
 on the drum, so adjusted that it may be operated by 
 the engineer without leaving his post at the levers. 
 
 Flanges.] (2) Flanges attached to the sides of 
 the drum, with a distance when the whole rope is 
 wound on the drum of not less than 4 inches between 
 the outer layer of rope and the greatest diameter of 
 the flange. 
 
 Rope fastenings.] (3) One end of each hoisting 
 rope shall be well secured on the drum, and at least 
 three laps of the same shall remain on the drum when 
 
45 
 
 the cage is at rest at the lowest caging place in the 
 shaft. 
 
 The lower .end of each rope shall l)e securely 
 fastened to the cage by suitable sockets and chains. 
 
 Indicator.] (4) An index dial or indicator that 
 plainly shows the engineer at all times the true posi¬ 
 tion of the cages in the shaft. 
 
 Signals.] (e) At every mine when men are 
 hoisted and lowered by machinery there shall be pro¬ 
 vided means of signaling to and from the bottom man, 
 the top man and the engineer. The signal system shall 
 consist of a tube, or tubes, or wire encased in wood or 
 iron pipes, through which signals shall be communi¬ 
 cated by electricity, compressed air or other pneu¬ 
 matic devices, or by ringing a bell. When compressed 
 air or other pneumatic devices are used for signaling, 
 provision must be made to prevent signal from re¬ 
 peating or reversing. The following signals shall be 
 used at mines w^here signals are required: 
 
 From the bottom to the top: One ring or whistle 
 shall signify to hoist coal or the empty cage, and also 
 to stop either when in motion. 
 
 Two rings or whistles shall signify to lower cage. 
 
 Three rings or whistles shall signify that men are 
 coming up or going down; when return signal is re¬ 
 ceived from the engineer the men shall get on the 
 cage and the proper signal to hoist or lower shall be 
 given. 
 
 Four rings or whistles shall signify to hoist 
 slowly, implying danger. 
 
 Five rings or whistles shall signify accident in 
 the mine and a call for a stretcher. 
 
 Six rings or whistles shall signify hold cage per¬ 
 fectly still until signaled otherwise. 
 
 From top to bottom, one ring or whistle shall 
 signify: All ready, get on cage. 
 
 Two rings or whistles shall signify: Send away 
 empty cage. 
 
46 
 
 Provided, that the operator of any mine may, 
 with the consent of the inspector, add to this code of 
 signals in his discretion. The code of signals in use 
 at any mine shall be conspicuously posted at the top 
 and at the bottom of the shaft, and the engine room at 
 some point in front of the engineer when standing at 
 his post. 
 
 Gauge.] (f) Every boiler shall be provided with 
 a glass water gauge and not less than three try cocks 
 and also a steam gauge, except that where two or 
 more boilers are equipped with a steam drum properly 
 connected with the boilers to indicate the steam pres¬ 
 sure and without any valves between said boilers and 
 the steam drum, the steam gauge maj^ be placed in 
 said steam drum; and other steam gauge shall be at¬ 
 tached to the steam pipe in the engine house, each to 
 be placed in such a position that the engineer and the 
 fireman can readily see what pressure is being carried. 
 Such steam gauges shall be kept in good order and 
 adjusted and be tested as often, at least, as every six 
 months. 
 
 Safety valves.] (g) Every boiler shall be pro¬ 
 vided with a safety valve with weights or springs 
 properly adjusted, except that where two or more 
 boilers are equipped with a steam drum properly con¬ 
 nected with the boilers to indicate the steam pressure 
 and without any valves between said boilers and the 
 steam drum, the safety valve may be placed in said 
 steam drum. 
 
 IxsPECTiox OF BOILERS.} (h) All boilei’s used in 
 generating steam in and about coal mines or sinking 
 shafts shall be kept in good order, and the operator 
 of every coal mine where steam boilers are in use 
 shall have said boilers ’ thoroughly examined and in¬ 
 spected by a competent boilermaker or other qualified 
 person, not an employee of said operator, as often as 
 once in every six months, and oftener if the mine 
 inspector shall so require in writing, and the result of 
 
47 
 
 every such inspection shall ])e reported on suitable 
 blanks to said mine inspector. 
 
 Run-around at BOTTo:Nr.] (i) x\t every under¬ 
 ground landing where men enter or leave the cage 
 and where men must pass from one side of the cage 
 to the other there shall be a safe passageway, free 
 from obstruction and dry as possible, around the 
 shaft not less than three feet wide for the use of men 
 only; and animals or cars shall not be taken through 
 such passageway while men are passing or desirous 
 of passing through such passageway. 
 
 Refuge place on shaft bottom.] (j) A refuge 
 place or places for men coming out at the close of the 
 day’s work shall be provided off the main bottom of 
 cageroom in shaft mines, at a place or places and of 
 such size as shall be approved by the State Mine In¬ 
 spector. Such place or places shall ])e not more than 
 400 feet from the shaft, where men are hoisted, and 
 shall be kept free from loose material. When leaving 
 such refuge places to be hoisted out, the men shall be 
 governed by the rules of the mine. 
 
 Obstructions in shaft.] (k) Xo accumulation 
 of ice or obstructions of any kind shall be permitted 
 in any shaft in which men are hoisted or lowered; 
 nor shall any dangerous gases or steam be discharged 
 into said shaft in such quantities or at such times as 
 to interfere with the safe passage of men. All surface 
 or other water which flows therein shall be conducted 
 by rings or otherwise to receptacles provided for the 
 same in such manner as to prevent, water from falling 
 upon men while passing into ,or out of the mine or 
 while in the discharge of their duties about the shaft 
 bottom. 
 
 Inspection.] (1) All shafts by which men enter 
 or leave the mine, and the passageways leading 
 thereto, or to the works of a contiguous mine used as 
 an escapement shaft shall be carefully examined 
 throughout at least once each week that the mine is 
 operating and the date and flndings of such an 
 
48 
 
 examination entered promptly in the books kept at 
 the mine for that purpose. A daily visit to the bottom 
 of all such escapement shafts shall be made by the 
 mine examiner, and if obstructions to the free passage 
 of men are found, their location and nature shall be 
 stated in such report. Such obstructions shall be 
 promptly removed. (Amended by Act approved June 
 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, p. 505) 
 
 Buildings, Explosives, Engine and Boiler House. 
 
 § 11. (a) After the passage of this Act, all build¬ 
 ings and structures erected over a shaft, slope or drift 
 mouth, and within one hundred (100) feet of the 
 same shall be of metal, rock, clay, cement, clay or 
 cement products, or a combination of the same. All 
 fan houses, tops of air and escape shafts and fan 
 drifts shall also be constructed of the above men¬ 
 tioned materials or a combination thereof. In connec¬ 
 tion with above construction, wood may be used only 
 for floors, windows, doors, or the frames for the 
 same: Provided, that this paragraph shall not apply 
 to mines employing ten (10) men or less. 
 
 Oil axd other explosives.] (b) No oils or sim¬ 
 ilarly inflammable materials shall be stored within 
 one hundred (100) feet of any hoisting or escapement 
 shaft, nor in any mine. 
 
 All lubricating oil used in coal mines shall be 
 contained in closed receptacles. In the mine, oil shall 
 not be heated over a Are or lamp. 
 
 All explosive material shall be stored in a fire¬ 
 proof magazine located on the surface not less than 
 500 feet from all other buildings in connection with 
 the mine, and such magazine shall be so placed as not , 
 to jeopardize the free and safe exit of men from the 
 mine in case of an explosion at the magazine. 
 
 Engine and boiler-house.] (c) Any building 
 erected after the passage of this Act, for the purpose 
 of housing the hoisting engine or boilers at any mine, 
 shall be substantially fireproof, and ho boiler-house 
 
49 
 
 shall be nearer than sixty feet to the main shaft or 
 other opening, or to any building or inflammable 
 structure connecting therewith. (Amended by Act 
 approved June 27, 1915, in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, 
 p. 411.) 
 
 Top mid Bottom Man, Cages, Speed Regulations, 
 
 Exits. 
 
 § 12. (a) At every shaft where men are hoisted 
 or lowered by machinery, the operator shall station at 
 the top and at the bottom of such shaft a competent 
 man who shall be and is hereby charged with the duty 
 of attending to signals, and is empowered to preserve 
 order and enforce the rules governing the carriage of 
 men on cages. Said top man and bottom man shall be 
 at their respective posts of duty at least half an hour 
 before the hoisting of coal begins in the morning, and 
 remain for half an hour after the hoisting ceases for 
 the day.* 
 
 Speed of cages and other regulations.] (b) 
 Cages on which men are riding shall not be lifted nor 
 lowered at a rate of speed greater than six hundred 
 feet per minute, except with the written consent of 
 the inspector. No person shall carry any tools, tim¬ 
 ber or other materials with him on ahy cage in 
 motion, except for use in repairing the shaft, and no 
 one shall ride on a cage containing either a loaded or 
 empty car. No cage ' having an unstable or self¬ 
 dumping platform shall be used for the carriage of 
 men or materials, unless the same is provided with 
 some device by which said platform can be securely 
 locked, and unless it is so locked whenever men or 
 
 * Under a similar provision of a former act, the mine 
 owner or operator was regarded as owing a duty to main¬ 
 tain the bottom man and sufficient light at the bottom of the 
 shaft to members of the night shift entering into the mine 
 within thirty minutes after the hoisting for the day shift 
 had ceased. Brunsworth v. Kerens-Donnewald Coal Co, 
 (1913), 260 Ill. 202, 216. 
 
 
50 
 
 materials are being conveyed thereon. No coal shall 
 be hoisted in any shaft while men are being lowered 
 therein. 
 
 Rights of men to come out.] (c) Whenever men 
 who have finished their day’s work, or have been 
 prevented from further work, shall come to the bot¬ 
 tom to be hoisted out an empty cage shall be given 
 them for that purpose, unless there is an available 
 exit by slope or stairway in an escapement shaft, and 
 providing there is no coal at the bottom ready to be 
 hoisted. In case of injury or 'bona fide illness, a man 
 shall be given a cage at once. 
 
 Safety Lamps, Regulations. 
 
 § 13. (a) At every mine in this State, the opera¬ 
 tor shall provide and keep in condition for use hot 
 less than two safety lamps and shall provide and keep 
 as many more as may be required in writing by the 
 State mine inspector. Davy lamps shall not be used 
 for any purpose except testing. 
 
 (b) All safety lamps shall be the property of the 
 operator and when not in use shall remain in the 
 custody of the mine manager or other competent per¬ 
 son designated by him, who shall clean, fill, trim, 
 examine and deliver same locked and in safe condi¬ 
 tion to the men wdien they enter the mine, or at some 
 underground station designated by the mine manager 
 for that purpose. He shall also receive the lamps 
 from the men w’hen they leave the mine or as they 
 pass the underground lamp station at the end of their 
 shift. 
 
 The persons to w'hom lamps are thus given shall 
 be responsible for the condition and proper use of the 
 safety lamps while in their possession, and their 
 return to the lamp station. 
 
 No safety lamps shall be given to any person for 
 use in a mine nor shall any person use a safety lamp 
 in a mine until said person has given evidence satis¬ 
 factory to the mine manager that he. understands the 
 
51 
 
 proper use thereof and the danger of tampering with 
 the same. 
 
 (c) No person except one duly authorized by the 
 mine manager shall have in his possession in any part 
 of the mine where locked safety lamps are used, any 
 matches or other means of producing fire, or any 
 lamp-key or other instrument usable for the opening 
 of a locked safety lamp. Any person violating the 
 provisions of this section shall he guilty of a mis¬ 
 demeanor and punishable as hereinafter i:)rovided 
 relating to misdemeanors under this Act. 
 
 (d) Electric lamps which will not ignite ex¬ 
 plosive gases may be used instead of safety lamps for 
 purposes for which safety lamps are required in this 
 Act except for testing for explosive gas. 
 
 Ventilation. 
 
 § 14. (a) At every coal mine there shall be pro¬ 
 vided, supplied and maintained an amount of air 
 which shall not be less than one hundred (100) cubic 
 feet per minute for each person, and not less than five 
 hundred (500) cubic feet per minute for each animal 
 in the mine, measured at the foot of the downcast and 
 of the upcast; except that in gaseous mine there shall 
 be not less than one hundred and fifty (150) cubic 
 feet of air per minute for each person in the mine. 
 The inspector shall have power by order .in writing to 
 require these quantities to be increased. 
 
 (b) The main current of air shall be so split or 
 subdivided as to give a separate current or reasonably 
 pure air to every 100 men at work, and the inspector 
 shall have authority to order, in writing, separate 
 currents for smaller groups of men, if, in his judg¬ 
 ment, special conditions render it necessary. 
 
 (c) Doors, curtains or brattices shall be placed 
 at such places as may be designated by the mine man¬ 
 ager, subject to the approval of the State Inspector, 
 to conduct into the working places an amount of air 
 
52 
 
 sufl5cient to render the working places reasonably 
 free from deleterious air of every kind. 
 
 (d) Away from the pillar for the mine bottom, 
 cross-cuts between entries shall be made not more 
 than sixty feet apart without permission of the State 
 Inspector of the district and then only in case of 
 “faults.” When such consent is given, brattice or 
 other means must be provided within sixty feet of 
 the face to convey the air to the working places until 
 a cross-cut is opened up. 
 
 When undercut or sheared, the entry, cross-cut 
 and room-neck may be advanced concurrently, but not 
 more than one cutting shall be shot in the room-neck 
 until the cross-cut is finished; and after the entry has 
 advanced fifteen feet beyond the location of the new 
 cross-cut, only one shot shall be fired in the entry to 
 two in either or both the cross-cut and room-neck at 
 the same shooting time. 
 
 When not undercut or sheared, the entry and 
 cross-cut may be advanced concurrently, but no room 
 shall be opened in advance of the last open cross-cut, 
 and after the entry has advanced fifteen feet beyond 
 the location of a new cross-cut only one shot shall be 
 fired in the entry to two in the cross-cut at the same 
 shooting time. 
 
 Not more than three shots shall be exploded at 
 one shooting time ahead of the last open cross-cut 
 
 (e) After the taking effect of this Act, the first 
 cross-cut between all rooms off any entry shall not be 
 more than sixty (60) feet from the rib of the entry. 
 Additional cross-cuts shall not be more than sixty 
 (60) feet apart: Provided, however, that if in any 
 mine the conditions are such that in the judgment of 
 the duly accredited representative of the department 
 of mines and minerals, expressed in writing, it is con¬ 
 sidered equally safe and more advantageous to leave 
 a blind pillar between not less than every three 
 rooms, the department of mines and minerals shall 
 have power to grant the authority to leave said pillar 
 
53 
 
 subject to review hy the department of mines and 
 minerals on formal complaint of the representative 
 of either party in interest and after an open hearing. 
 
 (f) All cross-cuts connecting inlet and outlet air 
 courses, except the last one nearest the face, shall be 
 closed with substantial stoppings to be made as nearly 
 air-tight as possible. In the making of the air-tight 
 partitions or stoppings, no loose material or refuse 
 shall be used. 
 
 Cross-cuts between rooms, except the one nearest 
 the face, shall be closed sufficiently to carry to the 
 working places the amount of air required by law. 
 
 (g) All possible care and diligence shall be ex¬ 
 ercised in the examination of working places, espe¬ 
 cially for the investigation and detection of explosive 
 gases therein, and where found, such gas shall be 
 removed by a special current of air produced by brat- 
 ticing or from a pipe, before men are permitted to 
 work in such places with other lights than safety 
 lamps. 
 
 (h) If, in any mine, the conditions are such that 
 in the judgment of the mine manager or the judgment 
 of the State Mine Inspector expressed in writing, it is 
 necessary tp use safety lamps only in working said 
 mine, other lights shall not be used therein: Provided^ 
 lioicever, that if in the opinion of the miners or opera¬ 
 tors, an injustice has been done by ordering said mine 
 to use safety lamps only, the miners or operators have 
 a right to appeal to the Department of Mines and 
 Minerals, its decision in the case to be final. 
 
 (i) The air from the outlet of the stable shall 
 not pass into the intake air current used for ventilat¬ 
 ing the working parts of the mine. 
 
 (j) All doors in mines, used in guiding and 
 directing the ventilating currents shall be hung and 
 adjusted so as to close automatically. 
 
 (k) At all doors through which three or more 
 drivers are hauling coal on any one shift, an attend¬ 
 ant shall be employed on said shaft [shift] for the 
 
54 
 
 purpose of opening and closing said doors when trips 
 of cars are passing to and from the workings: Pro¬ 
 vided, the mine inspector in case of specially 
 dangerous conditions, shall have power to require in 
 wu’iting that an attendant be placed at doors through 
 which less than three drivers shall pass. Places for 
 shelter shall be provided at such doorways to protect 
 the attendants from being injured by the cars while 
 attending to their duties: Provided, that in any or 
 all mines, where doors are constructed in such a man¬ 
 ner as to open and close automatically, attendants 
 and places for shelter shall not be required. 
 
 (l) If the inspector shall find men working with¬ 
 out the amount of air required by law, he shall at 
 once notify the mine manager to increase the amount 
 of air in accordance with the law. Upon the failure 
 or refusal of the manager to act promptly, and in all 
 cases where men are endangered by such lack of air, 
 the inspector shall at once order the men affected out 
 of the mine. 
 
 (m) In case the passageways, roadways or en¬ 
 tries of any mine are so dry that the air becomes 
 charged with dust, the operator of such mine must 
 have such roadways regularly and thoroughly 
 sprayed, sprinkled or cleaned. 
 
 (n) At all mines emplojdiig over one hundred 
 (100) men underground and in all mines generating 
 fire damp, the ventilating fan shall be run both day 
 and night; at all mines employing less than one hun¬ 
 dred (100) men underground, the fan shall be run at 
 its usual speed for six (6) hours before men go into 
 the mine to work. A recording pressure gauge shall 
 be maintained in connection wdth each fan at all 
 times: Provided, nothing in this clause shall apply 
 to mines employing ten men or less. (Amended by 
 Act approved June 27, 1917, in force July 1, 1917. 
 L. 1917, p. 602.) 
 
 (o) In all mines where closed electric lamps 
 are used exclusively, a sufficient number of prac- 
 
55 
 
 tical, experienced miners shall be employed by the 
 company, whose duty it shall be to examine the 
 mine for obnoxious or inflammable gases while men 
 are working therein; and, further provided, that the 
 mine shall be examined by a competent person with 
 a safety gas testing lamp on idle days, holidays and 
 Sundays preceding the time the night shift goes on 
 duty. (Amended by Act approved and in force July 
 1, 1919.) 
 
 Refuge Places, Power Haulage and Mule Roads, 
 
 Room-Necks, Gob Obstructions. 
 
 § 15. (a) On all single-track haulage roads where 
 hauling is done by machinery, which roads the per¬ 
 sons employed in the mine must use while perform¬ 
 ing their work or travel on foot to and from their 
 work, there shall be places of refuge on one side not 
 less than 3 feet in depth from the side of the car, and 
 not less than 4 feet long and 5 feet in height and not 
 more than 60 feet apart. On all such roads con¬ 
 structed after the passage of this Act, the refuse 
 [refuge] places shall be placed on the opposite side 
 from the electric power wire. On rope-haulage roads, 
 means of signaling shall be established between the 
 haulage engineer and all points on the road. A con¬ 
 spicuous light shall be carried on the front, and a 
 gong, conspicuous red light or white signal board on 
 the rear of every trip or train of pit cars moved by 
 machinery. 
 
 Refuge places—mule roads.] (b) On all haul¬ 
 age roads on which the hauling is done by draft ani¬ 
 mals, whereon men are obliged to be in the perform¬ 
 ance of their duties or have to pass to and from their 
 work, there shall be places of refuge not less than 
 2% feet in width from the side of the car, and not 
 less than 4 feet long and 5 feet in height and not 
 more than 60 feet apart. 
 
 Room-necks as refuge places.] (c) Refuge 
 places shall not be required in entries on which room- 
 
56 
 
 necks at regular intervals not exceeding 60 feet fur¬ 
 nish the required refuge places. 
 
 Keeping refuge places clear.] (d) All places 
 of refuge must be kept clear of obstructions and no 
 material shall be stored nor be allowed to accumulate 
 therein. They shall also be whitewashed not less 
 than once in six months. 
 
 Gob on haulage roads.] (e) One side of all haul¬ 
 age roads shall be kept clear of refuse or materials, 
 except timbering, unless the rib or timbering on such 
 side shall be 2^/2 feet or more from the rail, but in 
 such case materials or refuse shall not be permitted 
 within 2% feet of the rail. (Amended by Act ap¬ 
 proved June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, 
 p. 505.) 
 
 Cars, 
 
 § 16. (a) When there is an open hook coupling 
 
 on either end of the car, the hook and links must be 
 attachd so that when hanging down, the coupling will 
 be clear of the ties and rails. 
 
 Mine cars in use when this Act shall become in 
 force and effect shall be made to comply with this 
 provision within one year thereafter. 
 
 (b) In mines opened after the passage of this 
 Act, all mine cars shall be equipped with a bumper or 
 bumpers on each end, which shall project from be¬ 
 yond the end of the car not less than four inches in 
 length. This shall not be held to apply to mines em¬ 
 ploying ten men or less. (Amended by Act approved 
 June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913. L. 1913, p. 411.) 
 Voltage, Wires, Haulage Ways. 
 
 § 17. (a) Trolley wires or other exposed elec¬ 
 trical wires shall not carry a voltage above 275 volts. 
 
 Wires crossing haulage ways.] (b) All trolley 
 and positive feet [d] wires crossing places where per¬ 
 sons or animals are required to travel shall be safely 
 guarded or protected from such persons or animals 
 coming in contact therewith. 
 
57 
 
 (c) All terminal ends of positive wires shall be 
 guarded so as to prevent persons inadvertently com¬ 
 ing in contact therewith. 
 
 Oil Standards, Brands, Sampling and Testing, 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 § 18. All illuminating oils or other illuminants 
 used in coal mines shall conform to such specifica¬ 
 tions as shall be prescribed by the State Mining 
 Board. 
 
 Brands of oil.] (b) All oils sold or offered for 
 sale to be used for illuminating purposes in coal mines 
 shall be stamped or branded upon the original barrel 
 or package in which said oil is furnished to the per¬ 
 son, firm or corporation selling or furnishing such oil 
 to show that such oil has been tested and found to 
 conform to the specifications prescribed by the State 
 Mining Board. 
 
 Penalty.] (c) Any person, firm, or corporation, 
 either by themselves, agents or employees, selling or 
 offering to sell for illuminating purposes in any mine 
 in this State any oil not compljdng with the specifica¬ 
 tions of the State Mining Board as suitable for illum¬ 
 inating purposes as contemplated in this Act shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction 
 thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dol¬ 
 lars, nor more than one hundred dollars for each 
 offense; and any mine owner or operator or employee 
 of such owner or operator who shall knowingly use, 
 or any mine operator who shall knowingly permit to 
 be used, for illuminating purposes in any mine in this 
 State any oil, the use of w^hich is forbidden by this 
 Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be 
 fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty- 
 five dollars. 
 
 Samples and testing.] (d) The State mine in¬ 
 spectors shall have authority to sample all oil used 
 for illuminating purposes in the mines of this State, 
 or kept on hand for use or for sale at such mines, 
 
58 
 
 and for such purpose they may enter upon the 
 premises of any person. It shall be their duty to send 
 to the State Mining Board to be tested a sample of 
 any oil they have reason to suspect does not comply 
 with the specifications of the State Mining Board in 
 regard to illuminating oil for use in mines; and if the 
 said sample of oil is found after suitable tests not to 
 comply with the provisions of this Act, the person 
 using said oil or selling or offering the same for sale, 
 shall be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions 
 of this Act. (Amended by Act Apprbved June 27, 
 1913, in force July 1, 1913. L. 1913, p. 411.) 
 
 Powder, Keeping, Handlmg and Firing; Standard 
 
 Charger; Dead Holes, Tamping, Warning. 
 
 §19. (a) No blasting powder, or other explos¬ 
 ives, shall be stored in any coal mine, and no work¬ 
 man shall have at any time in the mine more than 
 thirty-five pounds of black powder nor more than 
 twenty-five pounds of permissible explosives, nor 
 more than three pounds of other high explosives: Pro¬ 
 vided, that nothing in this section shall be construed 
 to prevent the operator of any mine from taking into 
 the mine, when miners are not therein, and in elec¬ 
 trically equipped mines, while the current is turned 
 off* on roadways through which it is transported, a 
 sufficient quantity of powder for the reasonable 
 requirements of such mine for the next succeeding 
 working day. The delivery of powder into coal mines 
 shall be during the interval after the shot firers have 
 come out of the mine and prior to the entry of the 
 day shift into the mine in the morning; but in the 
 interim before such powder is delivered to the men, 
 it shall be kept in a closed receptacle. 
 
 Explosives shall not be carried in the same car 
 with tools or other materials. 
 
 Place and manner of keeping in the mine.] 
 (b) Every person who has powder or other explosives 
 in a mine shall keep the same in a wooden box 
 
59 
 
 securely locked, with hinged lid, and said hox shall 
 be kept as far as practicable from the track; and all 
 powder boxes shall be kept as far as practicable 
 from each other and each in a scheduled place. Black 
 powder and high explosives or caps shall not be kept 
 in the same box. Detonating explosives and detona¬ 
 tors shall not be kept in the sam^ box. 
 
 Manner of handling.] (c) Whenever a work¬ 
 man is about to open a box or keg containing powder 
 or other explosives, and while handling the same, he 
 shall place and keep his lamp at least five feet distant 
 from said explosive, and in such position that the air 
 current can not convey sparks to it, and no person 
 shall approach nearer than five feet to any open box 
 containing an open keg of powder or other explosive 
 with a lighted lamp, lighted pipe or other thing con¬ 
 taining fire. No miner, workman or other person shall 
 open any receptacle containing an explosive except 
 by the means of opening the same provided by the 
 manufacturer thereof, and it shall ])e unlawful for 
 any person to have in his possession in any mine any 
 receptacle containing explosive which has been opened 
 in violation of this Act. 
 
 Quantity of powder in one charge.] (d) The 
 quantity of powder to be used in the preparation of 
 shots shall not, in any case, exceed five (5) standard 
 chargers full of powder in coal seams five and one- 
 half (5%) feet or over in thickness; and shall not, in 
 any case, exceed four (4) standard charges full of 
 powder in coal seams under five and one-half (5%) 
 feet in thickness. 
 
 Standard charger.] (e) For the purpose of de¬ 
 termining the quantity of powder to be used in the 
 preparation of any given shot, a standard charger is 
 defined and prescribed to be a cylindrical metallic 
 charger not to exceed twelve (12) inches in length 
 and not to exceed one and one-half (1%) inches in 
 diameter. 
 
60 
 
 Dead holes.] (f) No person shall drill or shoot 
 a dead hole as hereinafter defined. A “dead hole” is 
 a hole where the width of the shot at the point 
 measured at right angles to the line of the hole is so 
 great that the heel is not of sufficient strength to at 
 least balance the resistance at the point. The heel 
 means that part of the shot which lies outside of the 
 powder. 
 
 In solid shooting, the width of the shot at the 
 point, in seams of coal six (6) feet or less in height, 
 shall not be greater than the height of the coal and 
 in seams of coal more than six (6) feet in thickness, 
 the width of the shot at the point shall, in no case, be 
 more than six (6) feet. 
 
 In undercut coal, no hole shall be drilled “on the 
 solid” for any part of its length. 
 
 Mixed shots.] (g) In no case shall more than 
 one kind of explosive be used in the same drill hole. 
 
 Copper tools.] (h) The needle used in preparing 
 a blast shall be made of copper, and any metallic 
 tamping-bar or scraper which is used for placing ex¬ 
 plosives for shots shall be tipped with at least five 
 inches of copper. A scraper shall not be used for 
 tamping. 
 
 Tamping.] (i) Every blasting hole shall be 
 tamped full from the explosive to the mouth of the 
 hole, and no coal dust or any material that is infiam- 
 mable or that may create a spark, whether the same 
 shall be wet or dry, shall be used for tamping. 
 
 Use of squibs.] (j) When a squib is used to fire 
 a shot it shall be unlawful to shorten or oil the match 
 of the squib or to ignite it except at the end. 
 
 Warning before firing.] (k) Before firing a 
 shot, the person firing the same shall see that all per¬ 
 sons are out of danger from the probable effects of 
 such shot, and shall take measures to prevent any one 
 approaching by shouting “fire” before lighting the 
 same. 
 
61 
 
 Not more than one shot at a time.] (1) Not 
 more than one shot shall he lighted at the same time 
 in any working place unless the firing is done by elec¬ 
 tricity or by fuses of such length that the interval 
 between the explosions of any two shots shall be not 
 less than one minute, and in no case shall any shot or 
 shots be fired or lighted which are termed depending 
 or dependent shots, until after the expiration of ten 
 minutes from the successful firing of the relieving shot 
 or shots. When successive shots are to he fired in 
 any working place in which the roof is broken or 
 faulty, the smoke shall be allowed to clear away and 
 the roof examined and made secure between shots. 
 
 Missed shots.] (m) No person shall return to a 
 missed shot, if lighted with a squib, until five (5) 
 minutes have elapsed from the time of lighting the 
 same, or, if lighted with fuse, until the following day; 
 and no person shall return to a missed shot when the 
 firing is done by electricity unless the wires are dis¬ 
 connected from the battery. 
 
 (n) No missed shot shall be withdrawn except¬ 
 ing by the use of copper-tipped or wooden tools. 
 (Amended by Act approved June 27, 1913, in force 
 July 1, 1913. L. 1913, p. 411. 
 
 (o) Where shot firers are employed and fuse is 
 used to fire shots, the length of the fuse shall be not 
 less than three and one-half (3^4) feet outside the 
 powder. (Amended by Act approved and in force 
 July 1, 1919.) 
 
 Duty of Mine Manager, 
 
 §20. (a) It shall be the duty of the mine 
 
 manager: 
 
 1. To visit each working place in the mine at 
 least once in two weeks. 
 
 2. To provide a suitable checking system whereby 
 the entrance into and departure from the mine of 
 each employee shall be indicated. 
 
62 
 
 3. To have the underground workings of the 
 mine examined by a certificated mine examiner 
 within eight hours preceding every day upon which 
 the mine is to be operated. Such a mine examiner 
 shall make the examination as provided in this Act, 
 
 - and he shall enter his report thereof with indelible 
 pencil or ink in a well bound or properly protected 
 loose leaf book provided for that purpose, before the 
 men are permitted to enter the mine in the morning. 
 This book shall be kept in some convenient place on 
 top, but not in the engine room, for the information 
 of the inspector and other persons interested therein. 
 
 4. To examine the mine examiner’s report in the 
 morning, and if the working places are reported 
 dangerous, he shall withhold the entrance checks of 
 men working in such places until he has taken every 
 proper precaution to advise such men of the danger 
 and instructed them not to work in such places until 
 the reported danger has been removed, except for the 
 purpose of removing same. 
 
 5. When there is to be a night shift mining coal, 
 the mine manager shall require the places in which 
 such night shift are expected to work to be examined 
 for gas, or falls or dangerous roof, by the person in 
 charge of such night shift or some competent person 
 duly authorized by him before the men enter such 
 places for work. The night shift may go into the 
 mine while the night examiner is in the mine, except¬ 
 ing in mines where marsh gas has been detected in 
 dangerous quantities, provided they do not go into 
 the working places until the required examination is 
 made. 
 
 Certificated mine examiners shall not be required 
 for the examination preceding the night shift, except¬ 
 ing in mines where marsh gas is detected in danger¬ 
 ous quantities. The night examiner, or examiners, 
 shall make a record of their examination in a special 
 book kept for that purpose, which shall be kept in 
 
63 
 
 some convenient place on top when not in use by the 
 examiner. 
 
 6. He shall provide a sufficient number of props, 
 caps and timbers, when demanded, delivered on the 
 miners’ cars at the usual place, in suitable lengths and 
 dimensions for the securing of the roof by the miners. 
 
 7. He shall see that the cross-cuts are made at 
 proper distances apart, and that the necessary doors, 
 curtains, and brattices are provided to secure the men 
 in the mine the volume of air required by this Act, or 
 by the written demands of the mine inspector; also, 
 that all stoppings along air-ways are properly and 
 promptly built. 
 
 8. He shall keep careful watch over all ventilat¬ 
 ing apparatus, and the air currents in the mine, and 
 in case of accident to fan or machinery by which the 
 air currents are stopped or materially obstructed, he 
 shall at once order the withdrawal of the men from 
 the mine and prohibit their return until the required 
 ventilation has been re-established. 
 
 9. He shall measure the air current or cause the 
 same to be measured at least once each week at the 
 inlet and outlet, also at the last open cross-cut in 
 each division or split, and shall keep a record of such 
 measurements for the information of the mine in¬ 
 spector. 
 
 10. He or his assistants shall, at least once a 
 week, examine the escapement shaft and the road¬ 
 ways leading thereto and all other openings for the 
 safe exit of men to the surface; and shall make a 
 record of any obstructions or other unsafe conditions 
 existing therein, and cause the same to be promptly 
 removed. 
 
 11. He shall examine or designate a competent 
 person to examine the hoisting ropes, cages and 
 safety catches every morning, and shall require the 
 ropes to be tested by hoisting the cages before the 
 men are lowered. 
 
 12. He must see that the top man and bottom 
 
64 
 
 man are on duty and that sutRoient lights are main¬ 
 tained at the top and bottom landings when the 
 miners are being hoisted and lo’wered. 
 
 13. The mine manager or his assistant shall be 
 at his post at the mine when the men are lowered 
 into the mine in the morning for work, and shall 
 remain at night until all the men employed during 
 the day shall have been hoisted out. 
 
 14. He shall give special attention to and in¬ 
 structions concerning the proper storage and han¬ 
 dling of explosives in the mines. 
 
 15. He shall see that all dusty haulage roads are 
 regularly and thoroughly sprayed, sprinkled or 
 cleaned at regular intervals when the health and 
 safety of the men in the mines demand. 
 
 (b) The mine manager shall have power: 
 
 1. To instruct employees as to their respective 
 duties and to require of all employees obedience to 
 the provisions of the mining law. 
 
 2. To prescribe special rules concerning the 
 proper storage and handling of explosives in the mine 
 and concerning the time and manner of placing and 
 discharging the blasting shots, and it shall be unlaw¬ 
 ful for any miner to fire shots except according to 
 such rules. 
 
 3. In mines in which the works are so extensive 
 that all the duties devolving upon the mine manager 
 cannot be discharged by one man, competent persons 
 may be designated and appointed as assistants to the 
 mine manager, who shall exercise his functions under 
 the mine manager’s instructions.* (Amended by Act 
 
 *A miner is not a trespasser and is within the protection 
 of the Mining act when he quits work on account of a 
 cave-in or squeeze occurring in the mine, enters the mine 
 to secure his tools and receive his time check from the mine 
 manager under his permission and assurance that there is 
 no gas in the part of the mine through which the miner 
 must pass, and is killed from an explosion of gas while secur¬ 
 ing his tools. Romani v. Shoal Creek Coal Co. (1916), 271 
 Ill. 360, 365, 367. 
 
05 
 
 appi'oved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913. L. 1913, 
 p. 411.) (Amended ])y Act approved and in force 
 July 1, 1919.) 
 
 Mine Examiners^ Duties. 
 
 § 21. (a) A certificated mine examiner shall be 
 required at all coal mines. There shall be one or 
 more additional certificated mine examiners whenever 
 required in writing by State mine inspectors when 
 the conditions are such as to make the employment 
 of such additional mine examiners necessary. 
 
 (b) It shall be the duty of the mine examiner: 
 
 1. To examine the underground workings of the 
 mine within eight hours preceding the time the day 
 shift goes on duty, every day upon which the mine 
 is to be operated, excepting that when in the judg¬ 
 ment of the State Mine Inspector expressed in writ¬ 
 ing to the coal operator, a mine generates explosive 
 gas in dangerous quantities, a State Mine Inspector 
 shall require the mine to be examined for gas in such 
 manner and at such shorter intervals than eight hours 
 before the time the day shift goes on duty every day 
 upon which the mine is to be operated, as may be 
 necessary to insure the safety of the men working in 
 such mine. In all mines where closed electric lamps 
 are used exclusively, said mines shall be examined 
 within four hours preceding the time the day shift 
 goes on duty. 
 
 2. When in the performance of his duties, to 
 carry with him a safety lamp in proper order and 
 condition and a rod or bar for sounding the roof. 
 
 3. To see that the air current is traveling in its 
 proper course and in proper quantity; and to measure 
 with an anemometer the amount of air passing in the 
 last cross-cut or break-through of each pair of entries, 
 or in the last room of each division in long-wall mines, 
 and at all other points where he may deem it neces¬ 
 sary ; and to note the result of such measurements in 
 the mine examiner’s book kept for that purpose. 
 
GG 
 
 4. To inspect all places where men are required 
 in the performance of their duties to pass or to work, 
 and to observe whether there are any recent falls or 
 dan^ijerons roof or accnmnlations of ^as or dangerous 
 conditions in rooms or roadways; and to examine 
 especially all roadways leading to escapement shafts 
 or other openings for the safe exit of men to the 
 surface, the edges and accessible parts of recent falls 
 and old gol)s and air-courses.* * 
 
 5. As evidence of his examination of said rooms 
 and roadways, to inscribe in some suitable place on 
 the walls of each, not on the face of the coal, with 
 chalk, the month and the day of the month of his 
 visit. 
 
 0. When working places are discovered in which 
 there are recent falls or dangerous roof or dangerous 
 conditions, to place a conspicuous mark or sign 
 thereat as notice to all men to keep out; and in case 
 of accumulation of gas, to place at least two con¬ 
 spicuous obstructions across the roadway not less 
 than twenty feet apart, one of which shall be outside 
 the last open cross-cut.* 
 
 *This provision applies not only to dangerous conditions 
 which are of a temporary character, but also to faulty con¬ 
 ditions of a permanent nature, caused in the course of con¬ 
 struction in opening the mine. Dunham v. Black Diamond 
 Coal Co. (1909), 239 Ill. 457, 459. 
 
 Any “dangerous condition’’ in a coal mine means such a 
 condition as endangers the life, limb or health of men 
 working in the mine, whether the condition is permanent, 
 due to faulty construction, or temporary, due to operation ; 
 and includes a dangerous condition in the track, roadbed, 
 or side entries. The accumulation of coal upon a railway 
 track of a mine constitutes a dangerous condition which the 
 mine examiner is hound to discover and report. Mengelkamp 
 V. Consolidated Coal Co. (1913), 259 Ill. 305, 309. 
 
 *A similar provision (section 18 of the Mines and Mining 
 act of 1899) requiring the mine examiner to place a con¬ 
 spicuous mark in all working places in the mine where 
 dangerous conditions existed and to report such conditions 
 to the mine ' manager, restricting entrance into the mine 
 until the danger was removed, was considered a valid regu¬ 
 lation under section 29, article 4 of the constitution. Co<ni 
 r. Big Muddg-Carterville Mining Co. (1911), 249 111. 41, 47. 
 
G7 
 
 7. Upon completing his examination, to make a 
 daily record of the same in a book kept for that pur¬ 
 pose, for the information of the company, the in¬ 
 spector and all other persons interested; and this 
 record shall he made each morning before the miners 
 are permitted to enter the mine. 
 
 8. To take into his possession the entrance 
 checks of all men whose working places have been 
 shown by his examination and record to be danger¬ 
 ous, and to give such entrance checks to the mine 
 manager before the men are permitted to enter the 
 niine in the morning. (Amended by Act approved 
 June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1015. L. 1915, p. 505.) 
 
 Duty of Hoistiny Enyinecr. 
 
 § 22. It shall be the duty of the hoisting engineer: 
 
 1. To be in constant attendance at his engine or 
 boilers at all times when there are workmen under¬ 
 ground. Whenever it is the duty of the engineer to 
 attend to the boilers, means for signaling from the 
 shaft bottom to the boiler-room shall be provided. 
 
 2. He shall not permit any one except persons 
 duly authorized to enter the engine-room, and he shall 
 hold no communication with any officer of the com¬ 
 pany or other person while the engine is in motion 
 or while his attention is occupied with the signals. 
 
 3. The engineer or some other properly author¬ 
 ized employee shall: 
 
 (a) Keep a careful watch over the engine, boil¬ 
 ers, pumps, ropes and winding apparatus under his 
 jurisdiction. 
 
 (b) See that the boilers under his. care are prop¬ 
 erly supplied with water, cleaned and inspected at 
 frequent intervals. 
 
 (c) See that the steam pressure does not exceed 
 the limit established by the boiler inspector, and fre¬ 
 quently try the try cocks and the safety valves and 
 shall not increase the weights on the same. 
 
68 
 
 (d) See that the steam and water gauges are 
 kept in good order, and if any of the pumps, valves 
 or gauges become deranged or fail to act, promptly 
 report the fact to the proper authority. 
 
 4. He shall thoroughly understand the estab¬ 
 lished code of signals, and when he has the signal 
 that men are on the cage, he must operate his engine 
 at not to exceed the rate of speed permitted by this 
 Act. 
 
 5. He shall permit no one to handle, except in 
 tlie discharge of duty, or meddle with any machinery 
 under his charge or suffer any one who is not a certi¬ 
 fied engineer to operate his engine except for the pur¬ 
 pose of learning to operate it, and then only in the 
 presence of the engineer in charge and when men are 
 not on the cage. 
 
 Special Rules. 
 
 § 23. (a) If shall be unlawful for any person 
 knowingly or negligently: 
 
 1. To injure or tamper with any appliance or 
 machinery. 
 
 2. To carry an open light, pipe or fire in any 
 form into anj^ place worked by the light of safety 
 lamps, or within five feet of an open package of 
 explosive. 
 
 3. To open anj^ locked safety lamp without per¬ 
 mission from the proper authority. 
 
 4. To handle or disturb any part of the hoisting 
 machinery without proper authority. 
 
 5. To obstruct or cause any obstruction in any 
 air current or to leave open any door or other means 
 provided to control the air current or to perform any 
 act that will interfere with the ventilating current of 
 the mine without permission to do the same from the 
 mine manager. 
 
 6. To deface, pull down or destroy any notice 
 board, danger signal, special rule or record book. 
 
 (b) No person shall be permitted to or shall 
 
t 
 
 enter, work in or about a mine or mine buildings, 
 tracks or machinery connected therewith while under 
 the influence of intoxicants. 
 
 (c) Every miner shall sound and thoroughly ex¬ 
 amine the roof of his working place before commenc¬ 
 ing work, and if he finds loose rock or other 
 dangerous conditions, he shall not work in such 
 dangerous place except to make such dangerous con¬ 
 ditions safe. It shall be the duty of the miner to 
 properly prop and secure his place for his own safety 
 with materials provided therefor.* 
 
 (d) It shall be the duty of every operator to post 
 at some conspicuous point at the entrance to the 
 mine, in such manner that the employees of the mine 
 can read them, rules not inconsistent with this Act, 
 plainly printed in the English language, which shall 
 govern all persons working in the mine. And the 
 posting of such notice, as provided, shall charge all 
 employees of such mine with legal notice of the con¬ 
 tents thereof. 
 
 (e) It shall be unlawful for any person to dis¬ 
 obey any order given in pursuance of this Act, or to 
 enter any place against a danger signal without per¬ 
 mission from the mine manager, or to do any willful 
 act whereby the lives or health of persons working in 
 mines or the security of the mine or the machinery 
 thereof are endangered. 
 
 (f) No mine employee shall enter or leave a mine 
 without indicating the fact of entering or leaving 
 said mine by some suitable checking system provided 
 by and under the control of the mine manager. 
 
 (g) No person, except the person necessary to 
 operate the trip or car, shall ride on any loaded car 
 
 *This provision applies to employes who have a fixed 
 working place in the mine, and does not apply to employes 
 who are required to work all over the mine wherever falls 
 might occur. Grannon v. DonTc Bros. Coal Co. (1913), 259 
 Ill. 350, 356. 
 
70 
 
 or on the outside of any car, or get on or off a car 
 while in motion. 
 
 (h) It shall be unlawful to change, exchange, 
 substitute, alter or remove any number or check or 
 other device or sign used to indicate or identify the 
 person or persons to whom credit or pay is due for 
 the mining of coal in any car or appliance containing 
 the same, with intent to cheat or defraud any other 
 person of the value of his services for mining the coal 
 contained in such car or appliance, and it shall be 
 unlawful for a person with intent to cheat or defraud 
 any other to place any number, check or other device 
 or sign upon any car or other appliance loaded by any 
 other person in or about the mine. Any violation of 
 this provision shall be deemed a larceny, and upon 
 conviction thereof shall be punishable as provided in 
 the general statutes of Illinois with respect to larceny. 
 
 Ten-foot Limit, Ahandonecl Workings. 
 
 § 24. (a) In no case shall the workings of any 
 mine be driven nearer than 10 feet to the boundary 
 line of the coal right pertaining to said mine, except 
 for the purpose of establishing an underground com¬ 
 munication between contiguous mines, as provided for 
 elsewhere in this Act, or except by mutual agreement 
 in writing between the adjoining owners. 
 
 Approachixg abaxdoxed workings.] (b) When¬ 
 ever any working place approaches within 50 feet of 
 abandoned workings of which there is a map pre¬ 
 pared as required by law and which may contain 
 dangerous accumulations of water or of gas, the 
 operator of said mine shall advance by workings not 
 more than 20 feet wide and maintain in advance of 
 the face a bore hole not less than 10 feet in depth and 
 one hole in each rib of the working place 10 feet in 
 depth, which side holes shall be drilled so as to make 
 an angle of not less than forty-five degrees with the 
 direction of the rib. If there is not a map of the 
 abandoned workings, the holes heretofore provided 
 
71 
 
 for shall he drilled when the new workin^>:s are 
 within 100 feet of where the old workinj^s are sup¬ 
 posed to he. 
 
 Dufy of J}hspe(ior, Coroucr'a Tuqucal, Juvcfftiyutiou. 
 
 §25. (a) Any loss of life or personal injury in 
 or about any coal mine shall he reported without 
 delaj" hy the person having charge of said mine to the 
 State mine inspector of the district in which the mine 
 is located, and the said inspector, in case of injury, if • 
 he deem necessarj^ from the facts reported, and in all 
 cases of loss of life, shall go immediately to the scene 
 of said accident and render every possible assistance 
 to those in need. 
 
 Every operator of a coal mine shall make or 
 cause to he made and preserve for the information of 
 the State mine inspector, upon uniform blanks 
 furnished by said inspector, a record of all deaths 
 and all injuries sustained by any of his employees in 
 the pursuance of their regular occupations. 
 
 Coroners’ inquest.] (b) If any person is killed 
 in or about a mine, the operator shall also notify the 
 coroner of the county, or in his absence or inability 
 to act, any justice of the peace of said county, who 
 shall hold an inquest concerning the cause of such 
 death. The State mine inspector may question or 
 cross-question any witness testifying at the inquest. 
 
 Investigation by inspectors.] (c) The State 
 mine inspector shall make a personal investigation as 
 to the nature and cause of all serious accidents in 
 mines under his supervision. He shall make a record 
 of the circumstances attending the same, as developed 
 by the coroner’s inquest and by his own personal in¬ 
 vestigation, which record shall be preserved in the 
 files of his office, and a copy thereof filed with the 
 State Mining Board within thirty days from the con¬ 
 clusion of such investigation, and such report shall 
 thereupon become part of the records of such board. 
 To enable him to make such investigation he shall 
 have power to compel the attendance of witnesses and 
 
72 
 
 % 
 
 to administer oaths or affirmations to them, and the 
 cost of such investigations shall he paid by the county 
 in which such accident has occurred. 
 
 Any person having charge or custody of the 
 records, files, documents, reports and proceedings of 
 the State Mining Board provided to be made, filed or 
 *kept under the provisions of the laws of Illinois, in 
 case of serious accident shall furnish to any person 
 •or persons interested, a certified copy thereof upon 
 application, and upon the payment or tender of fees 
 at such rates as are now paid in this State to ' the 
 clerks of circuit courts in counties of the second class 
 for certified copies of records, and refusal to furnish 
 such copies shall constitute a misdemeanor. (Amend¬ 
 ed' by Act approved June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 
 1915. L. 1915, p. 505.) 
 
 stretchers and Blankets. 
 
 § 26. At every mine, it shall be the duty of the 
 operator thereof to keep always on hand, and at some 
 readily accessible place, a properly constructed 
 stretcher, a woolen and waterproof blanket, and a roll 
 of bandages in good condition and ready for immedi¬ 
 ate use for binding, covering and carrying any one 
 who may be injured at the mine. When 100 or more 
 men are employed at any mine, two stretchers and 
 two woolen and two waterproof blankets, with a cor¬ 
 responding number of bandages, shall be provided and 
 kept on hand. At mines where fire-damp is gener¬ 
 ated, there shall also be provided and kept in store a 
 suitable supply of linseed or olive oil, for use in case 
 where men are burned by an explosion. 
 
 Scales, Weigh man and Check Weighman. 
 
 § 27. (a) The operator of every coal mine where 
 miners are paid by the weight of their output, shall 
 provide at such mine suitable and accurate scales for 
 the weighing of such coal, and a correct record shall 
 be kept of all coal so weighed, and said record shall 
 
73 
 
 be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of 
 miners and others interested in the product of said 
 mine. The operator shall provide at such mine not 
 less than one thousand (1,000) pounds of United 
 States Standard weights. 
 
 Weighman.] (b) The person authorized to weigh 
 the coal and keep the record as aforesaid shall be a 
 citizen of the United States, and shall, before entering 
 upon his duties, make and subscribe to an oath before 
 some person duly authorized to administer oaths, that 
 he will accurately weigh and carefully keep a true 
 record of all coal weighed, and such affidavit shall be 
 kept conspicuously posted at the place of weighing. 
 
 Check weighman.] (c) The miners at work in 
 any coal mine may employ a check weighman at 
 their option and at their own expense, whose duty it 
 shall be to balance the scales and see that the coal 
 is properly weighed, and that a correct account of the 
 same is kept, and for this purpose he shall have access 
 at all times to the beam box of said scales, and be 
 afforded every facility for verifying the weights while 
 the weighing is being done. The check weighman so 
 employed by the miners shall be a citizen of the 
 United States, and, before entering upon his duties, 
 shall make and subscribe to an oath before some per¬ 
 son duly authorized to administer oaths, that he will 
 faithfully discharge his duties as check weighman, 
 and such oath shall be kept conspicuously posted at 
 the place-of weighing. (Amended by Act approved 
 and in force July 1, 1919. L. 1919, p. 665.) 
 
 Boys and Women. 
 
 § 28. No boy under the age of sixteen years, and 
 no woman or girl of any age, shall be permitted to do 
 any manual labor in or about any mine, and before 
 any boy can be permitted to work in any mine he 
 must produce to the mine manager or operator 
 thereof an affidavit from his parent or guardian or 
 next of kin, sworn and subscribed to before a justice 
 
74 
 
 of the peace, or notary public, that he, the said boy, 
 is sixteen years of age. 
 
 The parent, guardian or next of kin shall submit 
 in connection \^dth said affidavit, a certificate of birth, 
 a baptismal certificate, a passport or other oflacial or 
 religious record of the boy’s age or duly attested 
 transcript thereof, which certificate or transcript 
 thereof shall, for the purposes of this Act, establish 
 the age of said boy. 
 
 Any person swearing falsely in regard to the age 
 of a boj^ shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be pun¬ 
 ished as provided in the general statutes of the State 
 pertaining to perjury. 
 
 Violations, Penalties. 
 
 § 29. (a) Any willful neglect, refusal or failure 
 to do the things required to be done by any section, 
 clause or provision of this Act, on the part of the 
 person or persons herein required to do them, or any 
 violation of any of the provisions or requirements 
 hereof, or any attempt to obstruct or interfere with 
 any inspector in the discharge of the duties herein 
 imposed upon him, or any refusal to comply with the 
 instructions of an inspector given by authority of this 
 Act shall be deemed a misdemeanor punishable by a 
 fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by impris¬ 
 onment in the county jail for a period not exceeding 
 six months, or both, at the discretion of the court: 
 Provided, that in addition to the above penalties, in 
 case of the failure of any operator to comply with 
 the provisions of this Act in relation to the sink¬ 
 ing of escapement shafts and the ventilation of mines, 
 the State’s attorney for the county in which such fail¬ 
 ure occurs, or any other attorney, in case of his 
 neglect to act promptly, shall proceed against such 
 operator by injunction without bond, to restrain him 
 from continuing to operate such mine until all legal 
 requirements shall have been fully complied with. 
 
 (b) Any inspector who shall discover that any 
 
75 
 
 section of this Act, or part thereof, is being neglected 
 or violated, shall order iinniediate compliance there¬ 
 with, and, in case of continned failure to comply, 
 shall have power to stop the operation of the mine, 
 or to remove any offending person or persons from 
 the mine until the law is complied with. 
 
 (c) For any injury to person or property, o(*- 
 casioned by any willful violation of this Act, or will¬ 
 ful failure to comply with.any of its provisions, a 
 right of action shall accrue to the party injured, for 
 any direct damages sustained thereby; and in (fase of 
 loss of life by reason of such willful violation or will¬ 
 ful failure as aforesaid, a right of action shall accrue 
 to the personal representatives of the person so killed 
 for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of 
 kin of such person and to any other i)erson or persons 
 who were, before such loss of life, dependent for sup¬ 
 port on the person or persons so killed, for a like 
 recovery of damages for the injuries sustained by 
 reason of such loss of life or lives not to exceed the 
 sum of ten thousand dollars: Provided, that every 
 such action for damages in case of death shall he com¬ 
 menced within one year after the death of such per¬ 
 son : And, provided, further, that the amount recov¬ 
 ered by the personal representative of the person so 
 killed shall he distributed to the widow and next of 
 kin of such person in the proportion provided by law 
 in relation to the distribution of personal property 
 left by persons dying intestate; Provided, that if and 
 whenever there shall be in force in this State, a 
 statute or statutes providing for compensation to 
 workmen for all injuries received in the course of 
 their employment, the provisions thereof shall apply 
 in lieu of the right of action for damages provided in 
 this Act.. 
 
 Definitions. 
 
 § 30. (a) Where used in this Act, the words 
 ^‘mine” and “coal mine” are intended to signify any 
 
76 
 
 and all parts of the property of a mining plant, on 
 the surface or underground, which contribute, directly 
 or indirectly, under one management, to the mining ^ 
 or handling of coal.* 
 
 Excavation or workings.] (b) The words “ex¬ 
 cavation” and “workings” signify any or all parts of 
 a mine excavated or being excavated, including 
 shafts, slopes, tunnels, entries, rooms and working 
 place, whether abandoned or in use. 
 
 Shaft.] (c) The term “shaft” means any verti¬ 
 cal opening through the strata which is or may be 
 used for purposes of ventilation or escapement, or for 
 the hoisting or lowering of men and material in con¬ 
 nection with the mining of coal. 
 
 Slope.] (d) The term “slope” means any in¬ 
 clined way in or to a seam of coal to be used for the 
 same purposes as a shaft. 
 
 Drift.] (e) The term “drift” means any prac¬ 
 tically horizontal way in or to a seam of coal to be 
 used for the same purpose as a shaft. 
 
 Operator.] (f) The term “operator” as applied 
 to the party in control of a mine in this Act, signifies 
 the person, firm or body corporate who is the immedi¬ 
 ate proprietor as owner or lessee of the plant, and, as 
 such, responsible for the condition and management 
 thereof. 
 
 Mine manager.] (g) The “mine manager” is the 
 person who is charged with the general direction of 
 the underground w^ork. 
 
 Mine examiner.] (h) The “mine examiner” is 
 the person charged with the examination of the 
 underground workings of the mine before the miners 
 are permitted to enter it in the morning. 
 
 *The term coal mine embraces machinery and appliances 
 used to facilitate the work of removing coal and other 
 material brought out of the mine; and in complying with 
 the requirements of the statute, the term also applies to the 
 condition in which the top shall be kept, and is not confined 
 to the underground operations of the mine or plant and to 
 the shaft. Spring Valley Coal Co. v. Greig (1907), 226 Ill. 
 511, 516. 
 
77 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 § 31. That an Act entitled, “An Act to revise the 
 laws in relation to coal mines and subjects relating 
 • .thereto, and providing for the health and safety of 
 persons employed therein,” approved April 18, 1899, 
 and in force July 1, 1899, with amendments to July 
 1, 1919; also 
 
 An Act entitled, “An Act to prohibit the -use of 
 certain oils in coal mines and penalties for infraction 
 of same,” approved April 30, 1895, in force July 1, 
 1895; also 
 
 An Act entitled, “An Act concerning the use of 
 powder in coal mines,” approved and in force May 14, 
 1903, as amended by an Act approved May 24, 1907, 
 in force July 1, 1907; also 
 
 An Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the 
 weighing of coal at the mines, and to repeal a certain 
 Act therein named,” approved June 17, 1887, in force 
 July 1, 1887, be and each of said Acts is hereby 
 repealed. 
 
78 
 
 EMINENT DOMAIN. 
 
 An Act to revise the law in relation to mines. Ap¬ 
 proved March 2Jt, in force Judy 1, 187Jf. 
 
 Eminent Domain, Road or Railroad. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem¬ 
 bly: That whenever any mine or mining place shall 
 be so situated that it cannot be conveniently worked 
 without a road or railroad thereto, or ditch to drain 
 the same or to convey water thereto, and such road, 
 railroad or ditch shall necessarily pass over, through 
 or under other land owned or occupied by others, the 
 owner or operator of any such mine or mining place 
 may enter upon such lands, and construct such road, 
 railroad or ditch, upon complying with the law in 
 relation to the exercise of the right of eminent 
 domain. 
 
 And the commissioners of highways of any county 
 under township organization, and the county board 
 in counties not under township organization, may, 
 when the public good requires, cause to be laid out 
 and opened public highways, or private roads or cart¬ 
 ways, from any coal mine to a public highway or to a 
 railway, as the public good may require, in the same 
 .way as now or may hereafter be provided by law for 
 the laying out and opening of public highways or 
 private roads or cartways, and may permit the 
 owner, lessee or operator of any coal mine to lay 
 down and operate a horse or dummy railway thereon, 
 or upon any highway or private road or cartway now 
 or hereafter laid out and opened for public or public 
 and private use, but always in such a manner and 
 
79 
 
 way, and upon such place thereon, as to not unneces¬ 
 sarily interfere with ordinary public travel. 
 
 Trespass, Siu'veyor. 
 
 § 2. If the owner of any land adjacent to any 
 lands worked as lead, coal, iron or other mine, shall 
 make complaint; in writing, verified hy affidavit, to 
 the judge of any court of record in the county where 
 the land is situated, that he has reasonable grounds 
 to believe, and does believe, that the owner or opera¬ 
 tor of such mine is trespassing upon his lands hy min- 
 ii]g thereon, it shall he the duty of the judge to 
 appoint some county survejx)r or other competent and 
 suitable person to descend into such mine, and make 
 such examinations and surveys as may he necessary 
 to ascertain whether the same is being worked upon 
 the land of the person making the complaint. 
 
 Surveyor, Powers, Penalty. 
 
 § 3. The person so appointed shall have the 
 right, at all reasonable times, to descend into such 
 mine and make such examinations and surveys; and 
 whoever shall willfully obstruct or hinder such per¬ 
 son from entering into any such mine, or any gallery 
 or place therein, or from making any such examina¬ 
 tion or survey, shall, for each offense, be fined not 
 exceeding $200, to be recovered before any justice of 
 the peace of the county. Any person accepting any 
 such appointment, and failing or refusing to make 
 such survey upon the request of the petitioner, may 
 be proceeded against as for a contempt of court, or he 
 may be fined not exceeding $500. 
 
 Examination. Expenses. 
 
 § 4. The expense of such examination and survey 
 shall be paid by the person making the complaint, but 
 if such person shall recover damages against the 
 owner or operator of such mine for working the same 
 upon his land, he shall have the right to have such 
 expense added to the damages. 
 
80 
 
 Trespass, Penalty. 
 
 § 5. Whoever shall willfully trespass upon the 
 land of another by mining thereon, shall, in addition 
 to the damages now authorized by law be liable to a 
 penalty not to exceed $500, which may be recovered 
 in an action of debt by the owner thereof, in any 
 court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 Mining Rights, Conveyance. 
 
 § 6. Any mining right, or the right to dig for or 
 obtain iron, lead, copper, coal, or other mineral from 
 land, may be conveyed by deed or lease, which may be 
 acknowledged and recorded in the same manner and 
 with like effect as deeds and leases of real estate. 
 
 Mining Rights, Taxation. 
 
 § 7. When the owner of any land shall convey, by 
 deed or lease, any mining right therein, such convey¬ 
 ance shall be considered as so separating such right 
 from the land that the same shall be taxable sepa¬ 
 rately, and any sale of the land for any tax or assess¬ 
 ment shall not include or affect such mining right. 
 
 Lead Mineral, Record. 
 
 § 8. Every person purchasing lead mineral shall 
 keep a book, in which he shall keep an account of all 
 lead mineral purchased by him, stating clearly the 
 amount, from whom and time when purchased, and 
 the place where it was dug; and for the purpose of 
 ascertainhig such facts, he shall make diligent in¬ 
 quiry of the person offering, such mineral for sale, 
 and if satisfactory answers are not given, it shall not 
 be lawful for him to buy the same. 
 
 Lead Mineral, Record, Inspection. 
 
 § 9. Such purchaser shall keep such book at his 
 usual place of business, open at all reasonable times 
 for the inspection of miners, owners of mineral lands, 
 and smelters of lead ore. 
 
81 
 
 Lead Mineral, Purchaser, Statement. 
 
 § 10. When any such purchaser has not a usual 
 place of business, he shall, within twenty-four hours 
 from the time of making any such purchase, make 
 return to the nearest smelter of lead ore to the place 
 of procuring the same, stating the amount thereof, 
 when, of whom and where purchased, and from what 
 place the same was dug or taken; and such smelter 
 shall minute the same in his book, to be kept pursuant 
 to this Act. 
 
 Lead Mineral, Purchase. 
 
 § 11. No person shall be allowed to purchase lead 
 mineral from any child under twelve years of age. 
 
 Lead Mineral, Purchase, Penalties. 
 
 § 12. Any person who shall purchase lead mineral 
 without keeping the book or making the entries or 
 returns as herein provided, or shall refuse to allow 
 their inspection as herein provided, shall forfeit for 
 each offense the sum of $25; and whoever violates any 
 of the other provisions of the four preceding sections, 
 shall forfeit for the first offense the sum of $5 and 
 costs, and for every subsequent offense $10 and costs 
 —one-half to the informer, and the other half to the 
 school fund of the school district where the suit is 
 brought. Said penalties shall be recoverable by action 
 of debt before any justice of the peace of the county 
 where the offense is committed. 
 
 WAGES OF MINERS AND LABORERS AT COAL 
 MINES LIEN ON ALL PROPERTY. 
 
 An Act to protect laborers and miners for labor per- 
 foi'med in developing and working in coal mines. 
 Approved June 21, 1895, in force July 1, 1895. L. 
 1895, p. 242. 
 
 Wages, Lien. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the 
 State- of - Illinois, represented in the General Assem- 
 
82 
 
 1)1 y: That every laborer or miner who shall perform 
 labor in opening and developing any coal mine, includ¬ 
 ing sinking shafts, constructing slopes or drifts, min¬ 
 ing coal and the like, shall have a lien upon all the 
 property of the person, tirm or corporation owning, 
 constructing or operating such mine, used in the con¬ 
 struction or operation thereof, including real estate, 
 buildings, engines, cars, mules, scales and all other 
 personal property, for the value of such labor for the 
 full amount thereof, upon the same terms, with the 
 same rights and to be secured and enforced as 
 mechanics’ liens are secured and enforced. 
 
 MIXERS TO BE PAID IX LAWFUL MOXEY FOR 
 
 ALL COAL MIXED. 
 
 An Act to provide for the payment of coal miners for 
 all coal mined hy them, and providing additional 
 duties for mine inspectors. Approved June 3, 
 1897, in force July 1, 1897. L. 1897, p. 270. 
 
 Wages, Payment. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted Oy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Asseyn- 
 hly: That every person engaged in mining coal for 
 .any corporation, company, firm or individual, shall 
 be paid in lawful money of the United States for all 
 coal mined and loaded into the min[ing] car by such 
 person for such corporation, company, firm or indi¬ 
 vidual, including lump, egg, nut, pea and slack, or 
 such other grades as said coal may be divided into, 
 at such price as may be agreed upon by the respective 
 parties.* 
 
 Investigation and Prosecution. 
 
 § 2. It shall be the duty of the mine inspector to 
 ascertain whether or not the provisions of section 1 
 
 *The payment of compensation under contract by different 
 means or upon a different basis than that specified in the 
 act constitutes no violation of this statute. Whitehreast 
 Fuel Co. V. People (1899), 175 Ill. 51, 55. 
 
83 
 
 of this Act are l)einj? complied with in his district, 
 and if he shall find that any corporation, company, 
 firm or individual are violating the provisions of sec¬ 
 tion 1 of this Act, it shall he his duty to at once have 
 instituted suit in the name of the People of the State 
 of Illinois, in some court of competent jurisdiction, 
 for the recovery of the i)enalty provided for in this 
 Act, and it shall he^the duty of the State's Attorney 
 of the county in wliicli such suit is brought, when 
 notified by the mine inspector, to prosecute such suit, 
 as provided by law in otho^ State cases. 
 
 Violation, Penalty. 
 
 § 3. Every corporation, company, firm or individ¬ 
 ual violating the provisions of this Act shall be fined 
 not less than $25.00 nor more than $200 for each 
 olfense. 
 
 SHOT FIRERS IN COAL MINES. 
 
 An Act to amend an Act entitled, ''An Act providing 
 that operators of mines shall furnish shot firers 
 in mines where shooting and blasting is done, ap¬ 
 proved May 18, 1905, in force July 1, 1905.’' 
 Approved May 20, 1907, in force July 1, 1907. 
 L. 1907, p. 401.* 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: 
 That an Act entitled, “An Act providing that opera¬ 
 tors of mines shall furnish shot firers in mines where 
 shooting and blasting is done,” approved May 18, 
 1905, in force July 1, 1905, be and the same is 
 amended to read as follows.: 
 
 *This law is not amendatory of the Mining act of 1899, 
 although it relates to matters which might properly have 
 been included in that act. It is an independent act giving- 
 no right of action for the death of a miner who has been 
 fatally injured as a result of shot-firing in a mine. Hol- 
 linysworth v. Chicago & Carterville Coal Co. (1909), 243 
 Ill. 98. 
 
84 
 
 Shot Fwers, Furnishing. 
 
 § 2. In all mines in this State where coal is 
 blasted, and where more than two pounds of powder 
 is used for any one blast; and, also in all mines in 
 this State where gas is generated in dangerous 
 quantities, a sufficient number of practical, experi¬ 
 enced miners, to be designated as shot firers, shall be 
 employed by the company, and at its expense, whose 
 duty it shall be to inspect and do all the firing of all 
 blasts, prepared in a practical, workmanlike manner 
 in said mine or mines. (Amended by Act approved 
 June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913. L. 1913, p. 442.) 
 
 Shot Fired, Notice, Record. 
 
 § 3. The shot firers shall, immediately after the 
 completion of their work, post a notice in a conspicu¬ 
 ous place at the mine, in which shall be indicated the 
 number of shots fired; also the number of shots they 
 did not fire, if any, specifying the number of the 
 room and designation of the entry, and giving reasons 
 for not firing the same. In addition they shall also 
 keep a daily permanent record, in which shall be 
 entered the number of shots or blasts fired, the num¬ 
 ber of shots or blasts failing to explode, and the num¬ 
 ber of shots or blasts that in their judgment were not 
 properly prepared and which they refused to fire, 
 giving reasons for same; the record to be in the cus¬ 
 tody of the mine manager and to be available for 
 inspection at all times by parties interested. 
 
 Blasting. 
 
 § 4. The superintendent or mine manager shall 
 not permit the shot firers to do any blasting, explod¬ 
 ing of shots,-or do any firing whatever until each and 
 every miner and employee is out of the mine except 
 the shot firers, mine superintendent, mine manager 
 and man or men necessarily engaged in charge of the 
 pumps and stables: Provided, however, that nothing 
 in this section shall be construed to prohibit the 
 
85 
 
 oinployiiient in such mine of a reasonably necessary 
 number of men during such time for the purpose of 
 securing the workings in case of fire therein. 
 
 Drill Holes, Alteration. 
 
 § 5. No miner or other person shall alter or 
 change any drill hole, by increasing its depth, diam¬ 
 eter or otherwise, after the same shall have been 
 approved by the shot firer. 
 
 Unlawful Shots. 
 
 § 6. No shot firer, whether voluntarily, or by 
 command or request of any person, shall fire any 
 unlawful shot, or any shot which in his judgment, 
 exercised as aforesaid, from his inspection thereof, 
 made . as aforesaid, shall not be a workmanlike, 
 proper and practical shot. 
 
 Unlawful Shot, Ordering. 
 
 § 7. No person or persons shall order, command 
 or induce by threat or otherwise, any shot firer to fire 
 any unlawful shot, or any shot which in his judg¬ 
 ment, after due inspection,'shall not be a workman¬ 
 like, proper and practical shot. 
 
 No person shall drill or shoot a dead hole as 
 hereinafter defined. A “dead hole” is a hole where 
 the width of the shot at the point measured at right 
 angles to the line of the hole is so great that the heel 
 is not of sutficient strength to at least balance the 
 resistance at the point. The heel means that part of 
 the shot which lies outside of the powder. (Amended 
 by Act approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913. 
 L. 1913, p. 442.) 
 
 Violations, Penalty. 
 
 § 8. Any willful neglect, refusal or failure to do 
 the things required to be done by any section, clause 
 or provision of this Act on the part of the person or 
 persons herein required to do them, or any violation 
 
86 
 
 of any of the provisions or requirements thereof, or 
 any attempt to obstruct or interfere with any person 
 in the discharge of the duties herein imposed upon 
 them, or any refusal to comply with the provisions of 
 this Act, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, punishable 
 by a fine not less than one hundred’dollars and not 
 to exceed two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in 
 the county jail for a period not exceeding three 
 months, or both, at the discretion of the court: 
 Provided, that whoever shall discover that any sec¬ 
 tion of this Act, or part thereof, is being neglected or 
 violated shall report the same to the superintendent 
 of the mines and ask immediate compliance there¬ 
 with ; and in case of a continued failure to comply 
 shall, through the State’s Attorney, or any other 
 attorney in case of his failure to act promptly, take 
 the necessary legal steps to enforce compliance here¬ 
 with, through and by means of the penalties herein 
 prescribed. 
 
 FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT IN COAL MINES. 
 
 An Act to require fire fighting equipment and other 
 means for the prevention and controlling of fires 
 and the prevention of loss of life from fires in 
 coal mmes. Approved and in force March 8, 
 1910, L. 1910, p. 84. 
 
 Fire Fighting Equipment, Requirements. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: 
 On and after July 1, 1910, except as hereinafter in 
 section 6 of this Act is provided, the following re¬ 
 quirements for fire fighting equipment and other 
 means for the prevention and controlling of fires and 
 the prevention of loss of life from fires in coal mines 
 shall be strictly observed hy all persons, firms, corpo¬ 
 rations or associations maintaining and operating a 
 coal mine wihtin the State of Illinois. (Amended by 
 
87 
 
 Act approved June 23, 1915, in force July 1, 1915. 
 L. 1915, p. 522.) 
 
 Water Supply, Hose Conneetions, Automatic Sprink- 
 
 ler, Water Barrels, Chemical Fire Extinguishers. 
 
 §2. (a) There shall he provided a supply of 
 water for fighting fire underground which shall have 
 a head from a standing body in a pipe, tank or pond. 
 
 (h) Such water supply shall he conducted into 
 the mine in an iron or steel pipe or pipes not less than 
 two inches in diameter, which shall.have not less than 
 two hose connections at the bottom of the hoisting 
 shaft, and two hose connections at the bottom of the 
 air and escapement shaft designated as such under 
 the law, and two hose connections in each stable 
 which is located less than five hundred (500) feet 
 from the bottom of either of said shafts; and there 
 shall be iron or steel pipes not less than two inches 
 in diameter in the entries and passageways leading 
 from the bottom of each of said shafts to such extent 
 and such position that with one (1) fifty-foot length 
 of hose the water may be carried into all such entries 
 and passageways within three hundred (300) feet 
 from the bottom of each of said shafts and into the 
 corresponding area in slope and drift mines, such 
 area to be designated in this Act as the fire protected 
 area. 
 
 (c) Provided, that in mines having one hundred 
 and twenty-five (125) feet or less head at the bottom 
 of the incoming supply pipe, the incoming pipes and 
 the pipes having hose connections shall be not less 
 than three (3) inches in diameter. The pipe in the 
 
 •mine shall have hose connections not more than fifty 
 (50) feet apart beginning at the bottom of the incom¬ 
 ing supply pipe or pipes. 
 
 (d) There shall be kept constantly on hand at 
 the bottom of each shaft where hose connections are 
 required, in condition for immediate use, not less than 
 two (2) fifty (50) foot lengths of one and one-half 
 
88 
 
 (1^) inch inside diameter linen hose or rubber lined 
 cotton hose, which shall have been tested to a pres¬ 
 sure of two hundred (200) pounds to the square 
 inch • all of such hose and connections therefor on the 
 supply pipes shall have American standard iron pipe 
 threads. The nozzles on such hose shall be not less 
 than three-eighths (%) nor more than five-eighths 
 (%) inch in diameter. 
 
 (e) Where any part of any passage or other 
 excavation within one hundred and fifty (150) feet 
 of the bottom of the hoisting shaft or the air and 
 escapement shaft designated as such under the law 
 and in the corresponding area in slope or drift mines 
 is timbered with cribbing or more than one layer of 
 lagging not including caps or wedges, above the cross¬ 
 bars, there shall be two lines of automatic sprinklers 
 on the under side of such timbering, attached to not 
 less than one and one-half (1%) inch pipes connected 
 with the fire fighting water supply, and such sprink¬ 
 lers shall not be more than ten (10) feet apart. 
 
 (f) In cribbing or lagging as last aforesaid, 
 which is more than three (3) feet in vertical thick¬ 
 ness, there shall be also, as near the top thereof as 
 is practicable, automatic sprinklers connected with 
 the water supply as last aforesaid and there shall be 
 one such sprinkler for each eight (8) feet square or 
 horizontal area of such cribbing or lagging. 
 
 (g) In every underground stable, located within 
 one thousand (1,000) feet of the hoisting shaft or the 
 air and escapement shaft designated as such under 
 the law, there shall not be less than one (1) auto¬ 
 matic water sprinkler for each area eight (8) feet 
 square in said stable; such automatic sprinklers 
 shall be connected with iron or steel pipes not less 
 than one and one-half (1^) inches in diameter along 
 the roof or ceiling in the stable, which shall be con¬ 
 nected with the fire fighting water supply. 
 
 (h) All automatic sprinklers shall be of the 
 fusible plug type and shall not require a tempera- 
 
89 
 
 lure of more than one linndred and sixty-five (Ido) 
 degrees Falirenheit to release tlie water. 
 
 (i) In all nndergronnd stabh's other than those 
 heretofore in this Aet referred to, there shall he kept 
 barrels full of water and two metal iiails with each 
 barrel. Such barrels shall he not more than fifty 
 (50) feet apart, and there shall not he less than two 
 (2) barrels fnll of water and two (2) metal pails 
 with each barrel in each entry or passageway into 
 which such stable opens and not more than fifty 
 (50) feet from the opening of the stable. 
 
 (j) There shall also he one (1) not less than 
 two and one-half (2^/^) gallon chemical fire ex¬ 
 tinguisher, or its equivalent, as approved by the 
 Department of Mines and Minerals, and two (2) not 
 less than six (G) gallon hand pump buckets in each 
 stable and in each entry or passageway into which 
 such stable opens not more than fifty (50) feet from 
 the opening of such stable: Provided, that in mines 
 employing ten (10) men or less underground, the 
 chemical fire extinguishers shall not be required. 
 Such chemical fire extinguishers and hand-pump 
 buckets shall he kept filled and ready for use. 
 
 (k) Provided, hoivever, that in coal mines in 
 which less than ten (10) men are employed, in wdiich 
 there are no stables, in lieu of said water supply with 
 pipes and hose, there may be substituted the follow¬ 
 ing : There shall be kept within the fire protected 
 area in each such mine, barrels full of water not more 
 than fifty (50) feet apart, and with each barrel there 
 shall be two metal buckets; and there shall also be 
 kept within said area not less than six (6) hand- 
 pump buckets of not less than six (6) gallons 
 
 ■ capacity, and said buckets shall be kept filled and 
 •ready for use. 
 
 (l) A barrel within the meaning of this Act 
 sliall be any substantial vessel holding not less than 
 fifty (50) gallons. 
 
 (m) All mines shall have at least one, not less 
 
90 
 
 than two and one-half (2%) gallon chemical fire 
 extinguisher, or its equivalent as approved by the 
 Department of Mines and Minerals, and one not less 
 than six (6) gallon hand-pump bucket, including 
 those hereinbefore in this Act required, for each fifty 
 (50) employees in the mine with a minimum of six 
 (G) extinguishers and six (G) ijump buckets, kept at 
 convenient places designated by the mine manager 
 throughout the mine, and three (3) fire extinguish¬ 
 ers of two and one-half (2i/^) gallons each, or its 
 equivalent as approved by the Department of Mines 
 and Minerals, in each building located within one 
 hundred (100) feet of any shaft, drift or slope, and 
 such extinguishers shall be recharged once every six 
 months and a record made of the date of recharging 
 in the mine examiner’s report book: Provided, this 
 does not apply to buildings constructed of fireproof 
 material. Such extinguishers and buckets shall be 
 kept filled and ready for use: Provided, that in 
 mines employing ten (10) men or less underground, 
 the chemical fire extinguishers shall not be required. 
 (Amended by Act approved June 27, 1917, in force 
 July 1, 1917. L. 1917, p. 59G.) 
 
 Drainage, Water Pressure. 
 
 § 3. During the cold weather months the water 
 pipes shall be kept drained, but the supply must be 
 kept so that by opening a valve easily accessible on 
 top, the water will be promptly available at all times 
 in the supply pipes underground. The water pressure 
 in said pipes to which hose is to be connected shall 
 not be less than twenty-four (24) pounds per square 
 inch, nor more than seventy (70) pounds per square 
 inch at a point not less than two hundred and fifty 
 (250) feet from the bottom of the shaft or the corre-, 
 spending position in slopes and drifts; and there shall 
 be a pressure gauge with dial at said point. When 
 the water pressure in the pipes leading into the mine 
 is higher than seventy (70) pounds per square inch at 
 
01 
 
 the pressure gauge, there shall be a valve on the in¬ 
 coming supply pipe to control the pressure into the 
 branch pipes in the mine, and there shall be a shut-oft' 
 valve on every branch pipe at the connection of such 
 pipe with the pipe from which it leads. 
 
 Underground Stahlcs; Hug, Bedding and Feed; Light. 
 
 §4. (a) No underground stable, unless so con¬ 
 structed as to be tireproof throughout, shall be 
 nearer than six ((>) yards to any regular traveling 
 way, and every underground stable shall have at each 
 opening a tireproof door with a door frame of con¬ 
 crete, stone or brick laid in mortar. 
 
 (b) Every such stable, which contains more than 
 ten (10) stalls, shall have a cement or brick parti¬ 
 tion, with a fireproof door therein, for each ten (10) 
 stalls or less; or, in lieu of said partition, the stable 
 shall be lined with cement plaster or wire lathing or 
 other fireproof material, where inflammable material 
 is exposed. 
 
 (c) All hay, bedding and feed underground, ex¬ 
 cept that in the mangers and stalls, shall be kept in 
 a closed cement, brick, stone or metal receptacle; and 
 not more than forty-eight (48) hours’ supply of hay 
 or bedding shall be kept underground, and not more 
 than one week’s supply of grain. 
 
 (d) All hay and bedding taken into the mine 
 shall be baled. Hay, bedding and feed shall be taken 
 into the mine only in a closed car or box, which shall 
 be kept closed until the materials are removed to the 
 receptacles provided therefor. 
 
 (e) No light with an unprotected flame shall be 
 taken into an underground stable by any person. 
 (Amended by Act approved and in force June 7, 
 1911. L. 1911, p. 419.) 
 
 Telephone Lines, Notice of Danger, Rules and In¬ 
 structions, Fire Drill. 
 
 §5. (a) There shall be a system of party line 
 
92 
 
 telephones which shall include one telephone on the 
 surface not more than two hundred (200) feet from 
 the tipple, and one at the bottom of the hoisting shaft, 
 or, in slope or drift mines at the first cross entries in 
 operation; and, in addition thereto, there shall be one 
 telephone at each inside parting. Telephone lines 
 shall be constructed in a workmanlike manner and 
 shall be repaired promptly when necessary. 
 
 (b) On becoming aware of any serious danger 9 
 requiring the inside employees to come out of the 
 mine, it shall be the duty of the person having 
 charge of the outside or inside telephone immediately 
 
 to give notice of the danger to the other telephone 
 stations; and it shall be the duty of all persons who 
 receive information thereof to cooperate in giving 
 notice thereof to all other persons in the mine. It 
 shall be the special duty of all drivers, motormen, and 
 trip riders to notify all other drivers, motormen, trip 
 riders or miners from whom they haul coal, of any 
 danger requiring them to leave the mine. 
 
 (c) Certain employees whose regular work is in 
 or near the fire protected areas shall have graded 
 authority and designated duties in case of fire; and 
 rules and instructions therefor shall be included in 
 the regular rules of the mine, and such employees 
 shall be instructed therein by the mine manager. 
 
 (d) There shall be a fire drill of such employees 
 not less often than once in two weeks, and the pipes, 
 connections and hose shall be tested at such drills. 
 (Amended by Act approved June 7, 1911. L. 1911, p. 
 
 419.) 
 
 Fire-proof Construction. 
 
 § 6. The following requirements also shall apply 
 to all coal mines developed within the State of Illi¬ 
 nois after the passage of this Act: Provided, that r 
 
 paragraphs (a) and (b) shall not apply to mines i 
 
 where ten (10) men or less are employed. 
 
93 
 
 (a) The hoisting shaft and the air and escape¬ 
 ment shaft designated as such under the law in shaft 
 mines and the air and escapement shaft nearest the 
 main opening in slope or drift mines, shall be of fire¬ 
 proof construction except that cage guides may be 
 wood. All drifts and slopes that are opened after the 
 passage of this Act must be of fireproof construction 
 for a distance of three hundred (300) feet from the 
 entrance: Provided, that this section shall not apply 
 to shafts in actual course of construction at the time 
 this Act takes effect. 
 
 (b) The roof and walls of the passageways lead¬ 
 ing from the bottom of the hoisting shaft and the air 
 and escapement shaft designated as such under the 
 law, within a distance of three hundred (300) feet 
 from the bottom of either of said shafts, shall be of 
 fireproof construction, except that the coal rib or 
 pillar may be used as a wall in such passageways. 
 
 (c) All underground stables and the openings 
 therein shall be of fireproof construction. 
 
 Stables in mines opened after the passage of this 
 Act shall not be located between the main and escape¬ 
 ment shaft, or in direct line on the ventilating current 
 or on passageways leading to the escapement shaft or 
 shafts. 
 
 (d) At mines constructed in conformity with the 
 requirements of this section of this Act, the fire¬ 
 fighting equipment described in section 2, and the fire 
 drill described in section 5 of this Act shall not be 
 required, except that there shall be kept at convenient 
 places designated by the mine manager, throughout 
 each mine, one not less than two and one-half (2%) 
 gallon chemical fire extinguisher, or its equivalent 
 as approved by the Department of Mines and Min¬ 
 erals, and one not less than six (6) gallon hand-pump 
 bucket, for each fifty (50) employees in the mine with 
 a minimum of six (6) extinguishers and six (6) 
 pump buckets, and such extinguishers and buckets 
 shall be kept filled and ready for use: Provided, that 
 in mines employing ten (10) men or less underground, 
 the chemical fire extinguishers shall not be required. 
 
94 
 
 (Amended by Act approved June 27, 1917, in force 
 July 1, 1917. L. 1917, p. 596.) 
 
 Violations, Complaints, Penalties. 
 
 § 7. (a) Any willful neglect, refusal or failure to 
 obey the requirements or provisions of this Act, or 
 willfully giving a false danger signal or tampering 
 with any of the appliances required by the provisions 
 of this Act, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, punish¬ 
 able by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) and 
 not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200), or by im¬ 
 prisonment in the county jail for a period not exceed¬ 
 ing three (3) months, or both, in the discretion of the 
 court. 
 
 (b) Upon final conviction of any mine manager 
 or any miner, under the provisions of this Act, his 
 certificate of competency shall be thereby invalidated; 
 and it shall be the duty of the State Mining Board 
 in the case of a mine manager or the miner’s examin¬ 
 ing board^which shall have issued such certificate in 
 the case of a miner, to cancel and revoke the certifi¬ 
 cate of competency of the person so convicted; and 
 such person shall not be entitled to receive another 
 certificate of competency within three (3) months 
 from the date of such cancellation and revocation. 
 
 (c) If any State Mine Inspector, or any county 
 mine inspector shall find that any provision of this 
 Act is being violated, it shall be his duty to file a 
 sworn complaint before any court of competent juris¬ 
 diction, stating the facts within his knowledge in 
 such case and asking that the person charged with 
 such violation be bound over to the next grand jury 
 for said county; and it shall be the duty of the State’s 
 Attorney for the county in which such violation occurs 
 to prosecute such complaint as provided by law in 
 other State cases. 
 
 Each county mine inspector shall report at least 
 once a month to the State Mine Inspector for the dis¬ 
 trict in which said county mine inspector is working. 
 
stating? tlie mines he has examined, the violations of 
 this Act wliich he has discovered and the comi)laints 
 lie has tiled under the provisions of this Act. 
 
 (d) If the couiitj" mine inspector shall fail to tile 
 a complaint, as herein reipiired, of a violation of this 
 Act which he shall have reported to the State Mine 
 Inspector, and in all other cases of violation of this 
 Act which shall have come to the knowledge of a 
 State Mine Inspector in the discharge of his duties it 
 shall he the duty of such State Mine Inspector to file 
 a sworn complaint before any court of competent 
 jurisdiction, stating the facts reported to him, by the 
 county mine inspector, or coming to his knowledge in 
 the discharge of his duties, and asking that the person 
 charged with such violation he hound over to the next 
 grand jury for said county; and it shall he the duty 
 of the State’s Attorney for the county in which such 
 violation occurs to prosecute such complaint as pro¬ 
 vided by law in other State cases. 
 
 (e) If any State Mine Inspector or any county 
 mine inspector shall willfully fail, neglect or refuse to 
 file a complaint as herein required, or shall willfully 
 disregard the duties required of him by the provisions 
 of this Act, a sworn complaint may he filed by any 
 person having knowledge of the facts, before any 
 court of competent jurisdiction, charging said county 
 mine inspector or said State Mine Inspector, as the 
 case may be, with nonfeasance in office and asking 
 that such inspector be bound over to the next grand 
 jury for said county, and the State’s Attorney for the 
 county in which such violation occurs shall prosecute 
 such complaint as provided by law in other State 
 cases. 
 
 Upon final conviction for nonfeasance in office 
 under the provisions of this Act, of any State Mine 
 Inspector or any county mine inspector, his certificate 
 of qualification or of competency, as the case may be, 
 shall be thereby invalidated and he shall become dis¬ 
 qualified from holding such office, and such person 
 
shall not be entitled to receive another certificate of 
 qualification or of competency, as the case may he, 
 within three (3) months from the date of such final 
 conviction. (Amended by Act approved June 7, 1911, 
 in force July 1, 1911. L. 1911, p. 419.) 
 
 RESCUE STATIONS IN COAL FIELDS. 
 
 An Act to establish and maintain in the coal fields of 
 
 Illinois mine fire fighting and rescue stations. 
 
 Approved March 4, 1910, m force July 1, 
 
 1910. Title amended hy Act approved June o, 
 
 1911, in force July 1, 1911, L. 1910, p. 2, and L. 
 
 1911, p. 4U- 
 
 Rescue Stations, Numher, 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem¬ 
 bly: That for the purpose of providing prompt and 
 eflicient means of fighting mine fires and of saving 
 lives and property jeopardized by fires, explosions or 
 ether accidents in coal mines in Illinois, there shall be 
 constructed, equipped and maintained at public ex¬ 
 pense three rescue stations to serve the northern, the 
 central and the southern coal fields of the State. 
 
 Commission, Appointment, Compensation. 
 
 § 2. The Governor shall appoint a commission, 
 consisting of seven members, including two coal mine 
 operators, two coal miners, one State Mine Inspector, 
 and one representative of the Department of Mining 
 at the University of Illinois, and one representative of 
 the Federal Bureau of Mines. Said commission shall, 
 within ten days after their appointment, meet and 
 organize by electing one of their number chairman 
 and another secretary of said commission, who shall 
 hold their respective offices for a period of one year 
 from the date of their election and until their suc¬ 
 cessors are elected and qualified. Members of the 
 
97 
 
 said commission shall receive ten dollars ($10.00) 
 per day for services rendered, not to exceed twenty-tive 
 (25) days during any one year, and all members of 
 said commission shall he reimhiirscHl for actual ex¬ 
 penses while enga^^ed in official work, approved hy 
 the commission; which commission shall he respon¬ 
 sible for the proper carrying? out of the provisions of 
 this Act. (Amended hy Act approvcnl June 5, 1911, 
 in force July 1, 1911. L. 1911, p. 424.)* 
 
 Station, Sites, Cooperation. 
 
 § 3. The said commission shall provide or pur¬ 
 chase or accept as a gift, suitably located sites for the 
 stations, temporary and permanent (piarters and suit¬ 
 able equipment and materials for the work: Provided, 
 hoivever, that the total cost of the equipment and 
 maintenance of the service to July 1, 1911, shall not 
 exceed seventy-five thousand (75,000) dollars. The 
 said commission shall further arrange for coopera¬ 
 tion in the work with mine owners, miners and State 
 and Federal organizations so as to render the service 
 of the utmost efficiency. 
 
 Plans, State Architect. 
 
 § 4. The State Architect shall, as provided hy 
 law, furnish plans and specifications for suitable 
 buildings as required by said commission. 
 
 Superintendents and Assistants, Numher, Appoint¬ 
 ment, Instructions. 
 
 § 5. The said commission shall appoint for each 
 station a superintendent and assistant. Each ap¬ 
 pointee shall serve for a term of two years and until 
 his successor is appointed and qualified, unless sooner 
 discharged by the said commission. Each appointee 
 before entering upon the duties of his office shall take 
 
 •''Note—T his Commission, Supt., etc., abolished. Rights, 
 powers, etc., transferred to Dept, of Mines and Minerals. 
 See ch. 24^ Secs. 35 and 45. Hurd’s Revised Statute, 1917. 
 
98 
 
 and subscribe to the oath of office as provided by law. 
 The commission shall have authority to pay for such 
 assistants as may be needed in giving instruction in 
 first aid to the injured and similar technical subjects, 
 and such other assistants as may be needed from 
 time to time to properly carry on the work of said 
 rescue stations and such rescue cars and sub-stations 
 as may be installed in connection with said stations, 
 but not more than two extra assistants shall be em¬ 
 ployed for each rescue car. (Amended by Act ap¬ 
 proved June 23, 1915, in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, 
 p. 527.) 
 
 Hid dries. 
 
 § 6. Each station superintendent shall receive one 
 hundred and twenty-five dollars per month; and each 
 station assistant one hundred dollars per month; and 
 each appointee shall receive his necessary and actual 
 expenses. (Amended by Act approved June 23, 1915, 
 in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, p. 527.) 
 
 Commission, Duty. 
 
 § 7. The said commission shall supervise the work 
 at each of the three stations, shall purchase necessary 
 supplies, and shall keep a complete record of all 
 operations and expenditures and an invoice of all 
 supplies on hand. The commission shall provide that 
 at each station some representative shall be on duty 
 or within call at all hours of the day and night for 
 each day of the year. (Amended by Act approved 
 June 23, 1915, in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, p. 527.) 
 
 Hiiperintendents, Duty. 
 
 § 8. Whenever the superintendent of any station 
 shall be notified by any responsible person that an ex¬ 
 plosion or accident requiring his services has occurred 
 at any mine in the State, he shall proceed immediately 
 with suitable equipment and on arrival at the said 
 mine shall superintend the work of the rescue corps in 
 
90 
 
 saving? life and property; and he shall cooperate with 
 the State Mine Inspector and the management of the 
 mine in the rescue work to such extent as is neces¬ 
 sary for the protection of human life in the mine, 
 during such time as members of the rescue corps are 
 under ground and while there is reasonable expecta¬ 
 tion that men entombed in the mine may be alive. 
 (Amended by Act approved June 23, 1915, in force 
 July 1, 1915. L. 1915, p. 527.) 
 
 Bicnyiial Report. 
 
 § 9. The commission shall prepare a biennial re¬ 
 port to the Governor and the General Assembly with 
 necessary illustrations showing the work performed 
 and money expended by the mine rescue service; and 
 the State Board of Contracts is hereby directed to 
 print and bind said reports promptly, and to provide 
 all necessary printing for the mine rescue commission 
 out of the appropriations for such board of contracts. 
 The Secretary of State shall assign to the use of the 
 commission suitably furnished rooms in the State 
 House, and shall also furnish w^hatever blanks, blank 
 l)ooks, printing, stationery, instruments and supplies 
 the commission may require in the discharge of its 
 duties and for use of its employees. (Amended by 
 Act approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913. L. 
 1913, p. 433.) 
 
 Appropriation. 
 
 § 10. To carry into effect the provisions of this 
 Act, there is hereby appropriated the sum of seventy- 
 five thousand dollars ($75,000.00) of any money in 
 the hands of the State Treasurer not otherwise appro¬ 
 priated ; and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby 
 directed to draw his warrants on the Treasurer on 
 receipt of vouchers, properly certified by the chairman 
 and secretary of said commission and approved by 
 the Governor. 
 
 ♦ 
 
100 
 
 MINERS’ EXAMINING BOARD. 
 
 An Act to provide for the safety of persons employed 
 in and ahout coal mines, and to provide for the 
 examination of persoyis seeking employment 
 therein in order that only eompetent persons may 
 he employed as miners, and to create a hoard of 
 examiners for this purpose and to provide a pen¬ 
 alty for the violation of the same, and to repeal 
 an Act entitled, ^'An Act to amend an Act en¬ 
 titled, 'An Act to provide for the safety of persons 
 employed in and about coal mines and to provide 
 for the exambiation of persons seeking employ¬ 
 ment as coal miners, and providing penalties for 
 the violation of the same, approved June 1, 1908, 
 in force July 1, 1908f approved June 5, 1909, in 
 force July 1, 1909A Approved June 21, 191S, in 
 force July 1, 191S. L. 1913, p. 438, 
 
 Certificate of Competency, Duplicates. 
 
 Section 1. Be it eyiacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: 
 That hereafter no person shall be employed or en¬ 
 gaged as a miner in any coal mine in this State with¬ 
 out having first obtained a certificate of competency 
 and qualification so to do from the “Miners’ Examin¬ 
 ing Board” of this State, created by this Act. Miners 
 who now hold certificates heretofore issued by any 
 board of county mine examiners of this State may be 
 permitted on or before July 1, 1916, to produce before 
 the Miners’ Examining Board created by this Act, 
 such county mine examiners’ board certificate, or if 
 the same shall have been lost or destroyed, satisfac¬ 
 tory evidence of its issuance; thereupon, such miner 
 shall be entitled to receive from the Miners’ Examin¬ 
 ing Board created by this Act, the certificate herein 
 provided for, which substitute certificate shall be 
 issued without cost to said miner. After the first day 
 of July, 1916, no miner’s certificate of competency or 
 
101 
 
 (liuililication shall be recognized in this State, except 
 those which have been or may be hereby issued by the 
 Board created by this Act: 
 
 Pj'ovided, lioivcver, that any such certified miner 
 may have one person working with him and under his 
 directions as an apprentice for the purpose of learn¬ 
 ing the business of mining and becoming qualified to 
 obtain a certificate in conformity with the provisions 
 of this Act. (Amended by Act approved June 29, 
 1915, in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, p. 525.) 
 
 Miners^ Exanvinmg Board, Appointment, Etc. 
 
 §2. (Repealed by implication. See Civil Admin¬ 
 istrative Code.) 
 
 Commissioners' Qualifications, Salary and Expenses. 
 
 §§3and4. (Repealed by implication, as above.) 
 
 Organization, Secretary, Duties. 
 
 § 5. Immediately after the appointment or reap¬ 
 pointment of a commissioner in each and every year, 
 the said board shall organize by selecting one of its 
 members president and another secretary for the en¬ 
 suing year, and all records, reports, books, papers and 
 other property pertaining to the ofiice of said board 
 shall be kept by the secretary. The secretary shall be 
 provided with a seal with proper device and on the 
 margin thereof shall be the words, “Miners’ Examin¬ 
 ing Board, State of Illinois.” 
 
 Examinations, Time and Place, Notice. 
 
 § 6. Such board shall hold an examination once in 
 each calendar month, in at least twelve places located 
 most conveniently <with reference to the districts in 
 which coal is mined in the State of Illinois so that all 
 persons in such district or in this State, or who may 
 wish to come into this State, for the purpose of en¬ 
 gaging in mining, may be examined as to their com¬ 
 petency and qualifications. Public notice of said ex- 
 
102 
 
 amiuations shall be given through the press or other¬ 
 wise in the discretion of the board, not less than 
 seven days in advance of such meeting, which notice 
 shall fix the time and place at which any examina¬ 
 tion under this Act is to be held. (Amended by Act 
 approved June 29, 1915, in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, 
 p. 525.) 
 
 Fees. 
 
 § 7. Each applicant for the certificate provided 
 for herein shall pay a fee of $2 to said board. Fees so 
 collected during each month shall, before the 10th day 
 of the following month, be paid by the board to the 
 State Treasurer, together with a report showing where 
 and from whom each fee was collected. 
 
 Examinations, Certificates, Record. 
 
 § 8. All examinations held by said “Miners’ Ex¬ 
 amining Board” shall be conducted in the English 
 language and shall be of a practical nature so as to 
 determine the competency and qualification of the ap¬ 
 plicant to engage in the business of mining. Said 
 board shall examine under oath all persons who 
 apply for certificates as to their previous experience 
 as miners and shall grant certificates of competency 
 or qualification to such applicants as are qualified, 
 which certificates shall entitle the holder thereof to 
 be employed as and to do the work of miners in this 
 State. No certificate of cpmpetency shall issue or be 
 given to any person under this Act unless he shall 
 produce evidence of having had not less than two 
 years’ practical experience as a miner or with a 
 miner, and in no case shall an applicant be deemed 
 competent unless he appear in person before said 
 board and orally answer intelligently and correctly at 
 least twelve practical questions propounded to him by 
 the board pertaining to the requirements and qualifi¬ 
 cations of a practical miner. Said board shall keep 
 an accurate record of its proceedings and meetings 
 

 and in said record shall show a correct detailed ac¬ 
 count of the examination of each applicant with ques¬ 
 tions asked and their answers, and at each of its 
 meetings the hoard shall keep said record open for 
 public inspection. No miners’ certificate granted 
 under the provision of this Act shall he transferable 
 and any effort to transfer the same shall he deemed 
 a violation of this Act. Such certificates shall he 
 issued only at meetings of said board and said certifi¬ 
 cates shall not he legal unless signed by at least two 
 members of said hoard and sealed ^^ith the seal of the 
 hoard issuing such certificates. 
 
 Annual Report. 
 
 § 9. Said hoard shall annually on the first day of 
 March report to the Governor, in writing, what exam¬ 
 inations it has held and what work it has done during 
 the preceding year, together with such recommenda¬ 
 tions as it may deem advisable for the improvement 
 of the method of holding examinations and carrying 
 out the purposes of this Act. 
 
 Violations, Penalties. 
 
 § 10. No person shall hereafter engage as a miner 
 in any coal mine without having obtained a certificate 
 of qualification as provided for in this Act, nor shall 
 any person, firm, or corporation employ as a miner in 
 his, their or its mine in this State, any person who 
 does not hold such certificate, nor shall any mine fore¬ 
 man, overseer, or superintendent permit or suffer 
 any person to be employed under him or in any mines 
 under his charge or supervision as a miner in any 
 mine in this State, except as herein provided, who 
 does not hold such certificate of qualification. Any 
 person, firm or corporation who shall violate or fail 
 to comply with the provisions of this Act, shall be 
 deemed guilty of misdemeanor and on conviction 
 thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one 
 hundred dollars ($100), and not more than five him- 
 
104 
 
 clred dollars ($500), or shall be imprisoned in the 
 county jail for a term of not less than thirty days, 
 nor to exceed six months, at the discretion of the 
 court. , " 
 
 Complaints and Prosecution. 
 
 § 11. It shall be the duty of said “Miners’ Exam¬ 
 ining Board” to report all complaints or charges of ’ 
 non-compliance with, or violation of the provisions of 
 this Act to the State’s attorney of the county in which 
 such noii-compliance or violation occurs, and it shall 
 be the duty of the State’s attorney of the county 
 wherein the complaints or charges are made, to 
 investigate the same and prosecute all persons so 
 offending. 
 
 Oath, Perjury. 
 
 § 12. In order to more effectively carry out the 
 intention and purposes of this Act, the “Miners’ Ex¬ 
 amining Board” shall have power to administer oaths 
 to any and all persons who are applicants or may 
 vouch in any manner for the service or qualification 
 of any applicant in order to obtain for him a certifi¬ 
 cate hereunder, and any person who shall wilfully 
 swear or falsely testify as to any matter material to 
 such examination or as to the service or qualification 
 of any applicant, shall be deemed guilty of perjury 
 and shall be subject to the penalties thereof as pre¬ 
 scribed by the criminal code of this State. 
 
 Removal of Commissioners. 
 
 § 13. The Governor shall have the power and 
 authority to remove any of said commissioners for ^ 
 neglect of duty, incompetency, or malfeasance in 
 office, and upon such removal shall appoint a suc¬ 
 cessor. 
 
 hivalidity. i 
 
 § 14. The invalidity of any section or part of this 
 
 Act, shall in no manner affect the validity of any 
 \ 
 
105 
 
 other part of this Act, exclusive of such invalid 
 part or parts, if any. 
 
 Repeal. 
 
 § 15. That an Act entitled, “An Act to amend an 
 Act entitled, ‘An Act to provide for the safety of per¬ 
 sons employed in and about coal mines, and to pro¬ 
 vide for the examination of persons seeking employ¬ 
 ment as coal miners, and providing penalties for the 
 violation of the same, approved June 1, 1908,’ ap¬ 
 proved June 5, 1909, in force July 1, 1909,” be and the 
 same is hereby repealed. 
 
 OIL AND GAS WELLS AND LEASES. 
 
 Ax Act to amend an Act entitled, Act in relation 
 to sinking, filling- and operating of oil or gas 
 ivells, approved and in force May 16, 19051^ Ap¬ 
 proved and in force June 7, 1911. L. 1911, p. 426. 
 Section 1. Be it enacted Ijy the People of the 
 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem¬ 
 bly: That an Act entitled, “An Act in relation to sink¬ 
 ing, filling and operating of oil or gas wells, approved 
 and in force May 16, 1905,” be and the same is hereby 
 amended to read as follows: 
 
 Wells, Distance. 
 
 § 1. No oil or gas well shall be drilled hereafter 
 nearer than 250 feet to any opening to a mine used as 
 a means of ingress or egress for the persons employed 
 therein or which is used as an air shaft. 
 
 Statement, Map, Record. 
 
 § 2. It shall be the duty of any person, firm or 
 corporation having the custody or control of any well 
 drilled for gas or oil, and of the owner of the land in 
 which such w^ell is drilledj when the drill hole pene¬ 
 trates a coal seam, to file in the oflice of the recorder 
 of the county in which said oil or gas well is drilled. 
 
106 
 
 and in the office of the State Mining Board, within 
 fifteen days after completing said well, a statement 
 and map giving the location and depth of every well 
 so drilled and the county recorder shall file and enter 
 and index the same in the records of his office relating 
 to the titles to real property. 
 
 Abandoned Well, Plugging. 
 
 § 3. Before the casing shall be drawn from any 
 well for the purpose of abandonment thereof, which 
 has been drilled into any gas or oil bearing rock, it 
 shall be the duty of any person, firm or corporation 
 having the custodj^ or control of such well at the time 
 of such abandonment, and also the owner or owners 
 of the land wherein such well is situated, to properly 
 and securely stop and plug the same in the following 
 manner: Such hole first be solidly filled from the 
 l)ottom thereof to a point at least twenty feet above 
 such gas or oil bearing rock with sand, gravel or 
 pulverized rock, immediately on the top of which fill¬ 
 ing shall be seated a dry wood plug not less than two 
 feet in length, having a diameter of not less than one- 
 fourth of an inch less than the inside diameter of the 
 casing in such well. And above such wooden plug 
 such well shall be solidly filled for at least twenty-five 
 feet with the above mentioned filling material, im¬ 
 mediately above which shall be seated another wood 
 plug of the same kind and size as above provided, and 
 such well shall again be solidly filled for at least 
 twenty-five feet above such plug with such filling ma¬ 
 terial. After the casing has been drawn from such 
 well there shall immediately be seated at the point 
 where such casing was seated a cast iron ball or 
 tampered wood plug at least two feet in length, the 
 diameter of which ball or the top of which wood plug 
 shall be greater than that of the hole below the point 
 where such casing was seated, and above such ball or 
 plug such well shall be solidly filled to top of well 
 with the aforesaid material. 
 
107 
 
 Affidavit of Plugging, Recording. 
 
 § 4. The person, firm or corporation owning or 
 having control or custody of any such well, or the 
 land in which any such well is situated shall ‘tile or 
 cause to be filed in the office of the recorder of the 
 county in which any such well is located, within 
 fifteen days after the same has been plugged, as pro¬ 
 vided in section 3, the affidavit of at least two per¬ 
 sons who were present during the plugging of such 
 well, which affidavit shall be recorded in the record 
 books in the office of the recorder of such county, and 
 shall set out in detail the manner in which such well 
 was plugged and the depth of each such wood plugs 
 and iron ball below the surface of the ground, and the 
 record of such affidavit shall be prima facie evidence 
 in any court of a compliance with the provisions of 
 this Act. 
 
 Fresh Water, Casing Off. 
 
 § 5. It shall be the duty of any person, firm or 
 corporation sinking a well in any oil or gas bearing 
 rock, or having sunk such well and maintaining the 
 same, to case off and keep cased off all fresh water 
 from such well. 
 
 Violations, Penalties. 
 
 § G. Any person, firm or corporation violating the 
 provisions of section 1, or failing to comply with the 
 provisions of section 2 of this Act, or who shall fail 
 or refuse to plug a well in the time and manner pro¬ 
 vided in section 3 of this Act, or shall fail or neglect 
 to secure and file in the proper recorder’s office the 
 affidavit provided for and required in section 4 of this 
 Act, or shall fail and neglect to properly case olf 
 fresh water from such well and keep the same cased 
 off while said well is maintained, as provided in sec¬ 
 tion 5 of this Act, shall be liable to a penalty of one 
 hundred dollars ($100) for each and every violation 
 thereof, and the further sum of one hundred dollars 
 
108 
 
 ($100) for each ten days during which such violation 
 shall continue, and all such penalties shall be recover¬ 
 able in a civil action brought in any court of com¬ 
 petent jurisdiction in any county in which said viola¬ 
 tion occurred, brought in the name of the State of 
 Illinois on the relation of such county, and for the 
 use and benefit of such county, and in all such cases, 
 if there be recovery by the State, it shall recover in 
 addition to such penalties a reasonable attorney’s fee. 
 
 § 7. (Emergency.) 
 
 RELEASE OF FORFEITED MINERAL RIGHTS. 
 
 An Act for the purpose of requiring lessee, his, her or 
 their heirs, representatives, successors or assigns 
 to release of record coal and other minm'al 
 leases, ivhcn forfeited, and providing a penalty 
 for failure, 7'efusal or neglect so to do, Beoame a 
 law without the Governor's approval July 12, 
 191S, in force July 1, 191S. L. 1913, p. 4^7, 
 
 Forfeited Coal or Mineral Lease, Release, Recording. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem¬ 
 bly: When any lease on land heretofore or hereafter 
 taken for the purpose of prospecting for coal or other 
 mineral, or for the purpose of mining the coal or 
 other mineral from said land, so leased, shall become 
 forfeited by the terms of said lease or the acts of said 
 lessee, his, her, or their heirs, representatives, suc¬ 
 cessors or assigns, it shall be the duty of said lessee, 
 his, her, or their heirs, representatives, successors or 
 assigns, within sixty days from the time this Act shall 
 take effect, if such forfeiture take effect prior thereto, 
 and within sixty days from the date of forfeiture of 
 any and all other leases, to have such lease or leases 
 released of record in the county where such land is 
 situated, without any cost to the owner or owners of 
 the land; and any failure so to do after notice and 
 
109 
 
 demand shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall sub¬ 
 ject the offender to a fine of not more than.two hun¬ 
 dred dollars. 
 
 Mandamus, Attorney's Fees. 
 
 § 2. Whenever the lessee of any coal or other 
 mineral lands, or the person, firm, company or corpo¬ 
 ration, owning, holding or having control of any such 
 lease shall allow the same to l)ecome forfeited, or by 
 his, her or their acts shall forfeit the same, and shall 
 refuse, fail or neglect to cause the same to be released 
 of record in the county where said lands are situated, 
 the lessor-or owner of said lands may begin and main¬ 
 tain a civil action to compel said party to release the 
 same of record and upon judgment being rendered 
 decreeing said lease forfeited and directing the re¬ 
 lease, the said lessee, or the person, firm, company or 
 corporation owning, holding or controlling said lease, 
 shall be decreed to pay all costs accruing by said ac¬ 
 tion, including a reasonable attorney fee to be taxed 
 as cost. 
 
 REQUIRING RELEASE OF OIL OR GAS RIGHTS 
 
 WHEN FORFEITED. 
 
 An Act for the purpose of compelling oil or gas 
 leases, when forfeited, to he released of record 
 and providing a penalty therefor. Approved May 
 21, 1907, in force July 1, 1907. L. 1907, p. 400. 
 
 Forfeited Oil or Gas Lease, Release, Recording. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem¬ 
 bly: When any lease on land heretofore or hereafter 
 taken for the purpose of prospecting for oil or natural 
 gas or operating oil or gas wells upon lands so leased, 
 shall become forfeited by the terms of said lease or 
 the acts of the lessee, it shall be the duty of the 
 lessee, his, her or their successors or assigns within 
 
no 
 
 sixty days from the date this Act shall take effect, if 
 such forfeiture take effect prior thereto, and within 
 sixty days from the day of forfeiture of any and all 
 other leases, to have such lease or leases released of 
 record in the county where such land is situated, 
 without any cost to the owner or owners of the land; 
 and any failure so to do shall constitute a misde¬ 
 meanor and shall subject the offender to a tine of not 
 more than two hundred dollars. 
 
 Mandamus, Attorney's Fees. 
 
 § 2. Whenever the lessee of any oil or natural gas 
 lands or the person, firm, company or corporation, 
 only holding or having control of any such lease shall 
 allow the same to become forfeited, or by his, her or 
 their acts shall forfeit the same, and shall refuse, 
 fail or neglect to cause the same to be released of 
 record, the lessor, or owner of said lands, may begin 
 a civil action to compel said party to release the same 
 of record® and upon judgment being rendered decree¬ 
 ing said lease forfeited and directing the release, the 
 said lessee, or his assigns, shall be decreed to pay all 
 costs accruing by such action, including a reasonable 
 attorney fee to be taxed as costs. 
 
 REGULATING THE CHARACTER OF PERMIS¬ 
 SIBLE EXPLOSIVES. 
 
 An Act to promote the safety of persons and property 
 in coal mines hy 7'eyiilatin(j the character of per- 
 missihle explosives sold to he used in coal mines. 
 Appi'oved Ju7ie 26, 1913, m force July 1, 
 
 L. 1913, p. 431. 
 
 rermissihle Explosives, Specifications. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illmois, represented in the General Assem¬ 
 bly: That all permissible explosives for use in blast¬ 
 ing coal in the State of Illinois shall conform to the 
 following specifications: 
 
Ill 
 
 (a) All permissible explosives offered for sale in 
 (he State of Illinois shall have printed on each 
 cartridge and individual xjackage the name of the 
 _ manufacturer, the registered trade mark, brand, grade 
 
 and a statement that it conforms in strength to the 
 grade and brand established by the United States 
 Hureau of Mines. 
 
 (b) Each shipping case shall have marked on it 
 Ihe total weight of explosives contained therein, and 
 the average weight, length and diameter of each 
 stick contained therein. 
 
 (c) Each shipping case containing permissible 
 explosives shall be marked “Permissible Explosives.” 
 
 (d) Each ingredient of a i)ermissible explosive 
 shall not vary more than the permitted variation 
 established by the United States Bureau of Mines. 
 
 Samples, 
 
 § 2. State mine inspectors, county mine inspec¬ 
 tors, and the accredited representatives of the coal 
 operators and coal miners shall have authority to 
 sample permissible explosives used for blasting pur¬ 
 poses in coal mines in the State of Illinois, or kept on 
 hand for sale, or intended for shipment for use in 
 such mines, and for such purposes, they may enter* 
 upon the premises of any person, tirm or corporation. 
 
 l*lace of Testing. 
 
 § 3. If the State mine inspectors, county mine 
 inspectors, or the accredited representatives of the 
 coal operators or coal miners shall desire to have said 
 samples tested for content, they shall send the same 
 to the United States Bureau of Mines for that pur¬ 
 pose. 
 
 Testing Samples. 
 
 § 4. When such samples are intended to be tested 
 for content, they .must be taken at the mill or ware¬ 
 house of the manufacturer or manufacturer’s agent or 
 
112 
 
 in the railroad car for shipment at said mill or ware¬ 
 house or the magazine at the mine, and- said samples 
 shall be taken in accordance with the rules established 
 by the United States Bureau of Mines. 
 
 Violations, Prosecution. ^ 
 
 § 5. If s-amples of permissible explosives when 
 tested as provided for in this Act shall be found not 
 to comply with the provisions herein, the person, firm 
 or corporation guilty of violating the provisions of 
 this Act shall be prosecuted in accordance with the 
 provisions hereof. 
 
 Stot'ing Explosives. 
 
 § 6. Permissible explosives shall be stored in 
 magazines constructed in accordance wdth plans that 
 shall be approved by the State Mine Inspector of the 
 district in which the mine is located. 
 
 Magazines, Construction. 
 
 § 7. Every magazine shall be provided with a 
 wooden floor which shall be kept free from grit and 
 dirt. If more than one kind of explosive is kept in 
 the same magazine, the magazine shall be divided into 
 rooms by partitions; the different kinds of explosives 
 shall be kept in different rooms, but no detonators, or 
 blasting caps, or any device containing fulminating 
 composition shall be kept in the same magazine with 
 any explosive. All detonators, blasting caps or any 
 device containing fulminating composition shall be 
 kept separate in a safe and dry receptacle apart from 
 any other explosive. 
 
 Mis-stamping, Etc. 
 
 § 8. Any person, firm or corporation changing 
 any stamp, brand, or specification denoting the con¬ 
 tents of any package or cartridge shall be subject to 
 the penalties provided for herein. 
 
113 
 
 I*cnaltic8. 
 
 § 9. Any x)ei*son, firm or corporation who shall 
 sell for use in the coal mines in this State any per¬ 
 missible exi)losive not stamped as herein required, or 
 who shall knowingly sell for use in coal mines in this 
 State any i3ermissible explosive which is untruthfully 
 branded or stamped, and any person, firm or corpora¬ 
 tion being a manufacturer of permissible explosives, 
 or the agent of any such manufacturer of permissible 
 explosives, who shall sell for use in any coal mine in 
 this State any permissible explosive which shall not 
 conform to the requirements of this Act, shall be pun¬ 
 ishable by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars 
 ($100) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not 
 exceeding ninety (90) days, or both, in the discretion 
 of the court: Provided, that nothing in this Act shall 
 be construed to apply to permissible explosives 
 shipped prior to this Act taking effect. 
 
 REGULATING THE USE OF BLACK POWDER. 
 
 An Act to promote the safety of persons and prop¬ 
 erty in coal mines hy regulating the character of 
 black blasting poivder sold to be used in coal 
 mines. Approved June 7, 1911, in force July 1, 
 1911. L. 1911, p. 385. 
 
 Black Potvder, Specifications. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem¬ 
 bly: That black powder for use for blasting in coal 
 mines shall conform to the following specifications: 
 
 (a) It shall have specific gravity of not less than 
 1.74 nor more than 1.90. 
 
 (b) It shall have a moisture content of not to 
 exceed 1 per cent at the time when shipped by the 
 manufacturer or his agent. 
 
 (c) Said powder shall be sold for use in coal 
 mines only in seven sizes of granulation, to be de¬ 
 termined as follows: 
 
114 
 
 CCC shall be powder which shall pass through 
 a screen having round hole perforations of 40/64 of 
 an inch in diameter and remain on a screen having 
 round hole perforations of 32/64 of an inch in 
 diameter. 
 
 CC shall be powder which shall pass through a 
 screen having round hole perforations of 36/64 of an 
 inch in diameter and remain on a screen having 
 round hole perforations of 24/64 of an inch in 
 
 diameter. 
 
 C shall be powder which shall pass through a 
 screen having round hole perforations of 27/64 of an 
 inch in diameter and remain on a screen having 
 
 round hole perforations of 18/64 of an inch in 
 
 diameter. 
 
 F shall be powder which shall pass through a 
 screen having round hole perforations of 20/64 of an 
 inch in* diameter and remain on a screen having 
 
 round hole perforations of 12/64 of an inch in 
 
 diameter. 
 
 FF shall be powder which shall pass through a' 
 screen having round hole perforations of 14/64 of 
 an inch in diameter and remain on a screen having 
 
 round hole perforations of 7/64 of an inch in 
 
 diameter. 
 
 FFF shall be powder which shall pass through a 
 screen having round hole perforations of 9/64 of an 
 inch in diameter and remain on a screen having 
 
 round hole perforations of 3/64 of an inch in 
 
 diameter. 
 
 FFFF shall be powder which shall pass through 
 a screen having round hole perforations of 5/64 of an 
 inch in diameter and remain on a screen having 
 
 round hole perforations of 2/64 of an inch in 
 
 diameter. 
 
 In testing powder for size of granulation as 
 herein required,, it shall be permissible for a given 
 size to contain not to exceed 7% per cent by weight 
 
115 
 
 of grains of the size next larger and 7% hy weight 
 of grains of the size next smaller. 
 
 Stamping. 
 
 § 2. All black powder sold for use in coal mines 
 in this State shall have plainly stamped on the keg 
 or package in which it is contained the letter show¬ 
 ing the size of granulation according to the require¬ 
 ments of this Act. 
 
 Unlawful Sale, Penalty. 
 
 § 3. Any person, firm or corporation who shall 
 sell for use in coal mines in this State any black 
 powder not stamped as herein required, or who shall 
 knowingly sell for use in coal mines in this State any 
 powder which is untruthfully branded or stamped, 
 and any person, firm or corporation being a manu¬ 
 facturer of black powder, or the agent of any such 
 manufacturer of black powder who shall sell for use 
 in any coal mine in this Stute, any powder which 
 shall not conform to* the requirements of this Act in 
 respect to the specific gravity and moisture content 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punish¬ 
 able by a fine of not exceeding $100.00 or by imprison¬ 
 ment in the county jail for not exceeding ninety (90) 
 days, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 Samples and Tests. 
 
 § 4. (a) State mine inspectors and deputy mine 
 inspectors shall have authority to sample black blast¬ 
 ing powder used for blasting purposes in coal mines 
 in this State, or kept on hand for sale or intended for 
 shipment for use in such mines, and for such purpose 
 they may enter upon the premises of any person. 
 
 (b) An inspector when sampling black blasting 
 powder shall secure as accurate an average sample as 
 is practicable, and shall test the granulation of such 
 sample with the screens provided for in this Act. 
 
116 
 
 (c) If the inspector shall desire to have said 
 sample tested for specific gravity or moisture con¬ 
 tent, he shall send the same to the State Mining Board 
 for that purpose, and when such camples are in¬ 
 tended to be tested for moisture content, they must be 
 taken at the mill or warehouse of the manufacturer 
 or manufacturer’s agent, or in the railroad car for 
 shipment at said mill or the warehouse; and said 
 samples when so taken shall be immediately sealed 
 moisture-proof before being sent to the State Mining 
 Board. 
 
 When such samples are received by the State 
 Mining Board they shall cause the same to be prop¬ 
 erly and accurately tested for specific gravity and for 
 moisture content. 
 
 (d) If samples of powder when sampled and 
 tested as provided in this Act shall be found not to 
 comply with the provisions herein, the person, firm or 
 corporation guilty of violating the provisions of this 
 Act shall be prosecuted in accordance with the provi¬ 
 sions hereof. 
 
 WASH BOOMS FOR EMPLOYEES. 
 
 An Act to provide for wash rooms in certain employ¬ 
 ments to protect the health of employees and 
 secure puMic comfort. Approved June 26, 1913, 
 in force July 1, 1913. L. 1913, p. 359. 
 
 Wash Rooms, EstaMishment. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem- 
 l)ly: That every owner or operator of a coal mine, 
 steel mill, foundry, machine shop, or other like busi¬ 
 ness in which employees become covered with grease, 
 smoke, dust, grime and perspiration to such extent 
 that to remain in such condition after leaving their 
 work without washing and cleansing their bodies and 
 changing their clothing will endanger their health or 
 
117 
 
 make their condition offensive to the public, shall pro¬ 
 vide and maintain a suitable and sanitary wash room 
 at a convenient place in or adjacent to such mine, 
 mill, foundry, shop or other place of employment for 
 the use of such employees. 
 
 Wash Rooms, Requirements. 
 
 § 2. Such wash room shall be so arranged that 
 employees may change their clothing therein, and 
 shall be sufficient for the number of employees en¬ 
 gaged regularly in such employment; shall be 
 provided with lockers or hangers in which employees 
 may keep their clothing; shall be provided with hot 
 and cold water and with sufficient and suitable places 
 and means for using the same; and during cold 
 weather, shall be sufficiently heated. 
 
 Inspection. 
 
 § 3. It shall be the duty of the State and county 
 mine inspectors, factory inspectors and other in¬ 
 spectors required to inspect places and kinds of busi¬ 
 ness required by this Act to be provided with wash 
 rooms, to inspect such wash rooms and report to the 
 owner or operator, the sanitary and physical condi¬ 
 tion thereof in writing, and make recommendations as 
 to such improvements or changes as may appear to be 
 necessary for compliance with the provisions of this 
 Act. 
 
 Violation, Penalty. 
 
 § 4. Any owner or employer who shall fail or 
 refuse to comply with the provisions of this Act shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic¬ 
 tion thereof shall be fined not more than one hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 < • * ^ . 
 
 Second Offenses;, Etc., Penalty. 
 
 § 5. Any owner or employer who shall be con¬ 
 victed of a violation of the provisions of this Act shall 
 
118 
 
 be subject to a conviction for succeeding offenses for 
 each and every day he shall neglect or refuse to com¬ 
 ply herewith. 
 
 CAPITAL STOCK OWNERSHIP. 
 
 An Act to authorize mining or manufacturing com¬ 
 panies to own and hold shares of the capital 
 stock, and to owm and hold securities of railroad 
 companies tvhose roads shall connect the different 
 plants of such mining or manufacturing compa¬ 
 nies with each other, or with other railroads or 
 harbors. Approved June 11, 1897, in force July 1, 
 1897. L. 1897, p. 285. 
 
 Capital Stock, Authority to Own. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem¬ 
 bly: That any corporation organized, or to be organ¬ 
 ized, under and by virtue of any law of this State, 
 for mining or manufacturing purposes, be and the 
 same is hereby authorized to own and hold shares of 
 the capital stock, and to own and hold securities of 
 any railroad company or companies when such rail¬ 
 road or railroads shall connect the different plants of 
 such mining or manufacturing companies with each 
 other, or with other railroads or harbors: Provided, 
 that said mining or manufacturing companies shall 
 not be permitted to hold stock in more than one rail¬ 
 road connecting the same points. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF MINING ENGINEERING AT 
 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 An Act authorizing and directing the establishment of 
 a department of mining engineering in the Col¬ 
 lege of Engineering, at the IJniversity of Illinois, 
 and providing for the support of the same. Ap¬ 
 proved June 8, 1909, in force July 1, 1909. L. 
 1909, p. 4S. 
 
Departmefit of Mining Engineering. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem- 
 hly: That the trustees of the University of Illinois be 
 authorized and directed to establish, in the College 
 of Engineering, at the university, a department of 
 mining engineering. 
 
 Courses of Instruction. 
 
 § 2. That the said department of mining engi¬ 
 neering shall offer such courses of instruction relating 
 to the science and practice of mining as will best 
 serve to train young men for efficient work in the 
 various phases of the mining industry. 
 
 Dissemination of Scientific Facts. 
 
 § 3. That in addition to its work of instruction, 
 the said department of mining engineering shall, so 
 far as practicable, concern itself with the develop¬ 
 ment and dissemination of such scientific facts as are 
 likely to be of service in improving the practice of 
 mining, with reference to efficiency in operation, to 
 the security of life in the mines, and to the conserva¬ 
 tion of the fuel and other mineral resources of the 
 State. • 
 
 Appropriation. 
 
 § 4. That there be and hereby is appropriated to 
 the University of Illinois, to meet the cost of estab¬ 
 lishing and maintaining the said department of min¬ 
 ing engineering, the sum of seven thousand five hun¬ 
 dred ($7,500) dollars per annum. 
 
 Warrants. 
 
 § 5. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby 
 autlLorized and directed to draw his warrant on the 
 treasurer for the sum hereby appropriated; payable 
 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap- 
 
120 
 
 propriated, upon the order of the board of trustees of 
 said university, attested by its secretary and with the 
 corporate seal of said university thereto attached. 
 
 TRESPASS AND INTIMIDATION. 
 
 An Act to revise the laiv in I'elation to criminal jur¬ 
 isprudence. Approved March 27, 187^, in force 
 July 1, 187Jf. 
 
 Intimidation, Penalty. 
 
 § 160. Whoever enters a coal bank, mine, shaft, 
 manufactory, building or premises of another, with 
 intent to commit any injury thereto, or by means of 
 threats, intimidation or riotous or other unlawful 
 doings, to cause any person employed therein to leave 
 his employment, shall be fined not exceeding $500, or 
 confined in the county jail not exceeding six months, 
 or both. 
 
 Trespass, Penalty. 
 
 § 268. Whoever, without authority of law and not 
 being the owner or agent of adjoining land, enters the 
 coal bank, mine, shaft, manufactory, or place where 
 workmen are employed, of another, without the ex¬ 
 pressed or implied consent of the owner or manager 
 thereof, atfer notice that such ^ntry is forbidden, shall 
 be fined not exceeding $200, or confined in the county 
 jail not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the 
 court. 
 
 INFORMATION. 
 
 An Act to require inspectors of mines to furnish in¬ 
 formation to the State Geologist, and to provide 
 for paying the expenses of the same. Approved 
 June IS, 1891, in force July 1, 1891, L. 1891, 
 p. 167. 
 
 Information, Duty of Inspectors. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assam- 
 
121 
 
 hly: That in addition to the duties now prescribed by 
 law, it shall hereafter he the duty of the State in¬ 
 spectors of coal mines to procure for, and under the 
 direction of, the State Geologist, a true record of the 
 various strata through which coal shafts are sunk, or 
 borings for coal, oil, gas or artesian water are made 
 in their respective districts, also to determine the 
 altitude of the top of said shafts or bore holes, above 
 some specified point on the nearest railroad, or other 
 l)oint whose elevation may be readily ascertained; and 
 also to determine the dip of the coal stratum in all 
 mines which are being operated. The additional 
 duties herein prescribed for said inspector shall be 
 discharged at such times and in such manner as not 
 to interfere with their primary duties as inspectors of 
 mines, and they shall report the results of their 
 observations, from time to time, to the State Geolo¬ 
 gist. 
 
 Expenses, Payment. 
 
 § 2. The actual and necessary traveling expenses 
 of said inspectors, in the discharge of their public 
 duties, shall be allowed and paid from the same fund 
 and in the same manner as that in which compensa¬ 
 tion for their services is now paid, and upon itemized 
 quarterly accounts, verified by the affidavit, and ap¬ 
 proved by the secretary of the Commissioner of Labor 
 Statistics and the Governor. 
 
 MINING INVESTIGATION COMMISSION. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem¬ 
 bly: That a commission be established, to be known 
 as the Mining Investigation Commission of the State 
 of Illinois, consisting of three coal mine owners and 
 three coal miners appointed by the Governor, together 
 with three qualified men, no one of whom shall be 
 identified or affiliated with the interests of either of 
 
122 
 
 the mine owners or coal miners or dependent upon the 
 patronage or good will of either, nor in political life 
 who shall be appointed by the Governor. 
 
 Each member of the said commission shall have 
 equal authority, power and voting strength in consid¬ 
 ering and acting upon any matters which may be 
 ])rought to the attention of the commission and on 
 which the commission may act and the said commis¬ 
 sion shall have power and authority to investigate the 
 methods and conditions of mining in the State of Illi¬ 
 nois with special reference to the safety of human 
 lives and property and the conservation of coal de¬ 
 posits. 
 
 § 2. In making an investigation as contemplated 
 in this Act, said commissioners shall have the power 
 to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses, 
 which shall be under the seal of the commission and 
 signed by the chairman or secretary of said commis¬ 
 sion. 
 
 In case any person shall wilfully fail or refuse to 
 obey such subpoena, it shall be the duty of th Circuit 
 Court of any county, upon application 'of the said 
 commissioners, to issue an attachment for such wit¬ 
 ness, and compel such witness to attend before the 
 commissioners, and give his testimony upon such 
 matters as shall be lawfully required by such com¬ 
 missioners ; and the said court shall have the power 
 to punish for contempt, as in other cases of refusal 
 to obey the process and order of such court. 
 
 The fees of wdwtnesses shall be the same as in the 
 courts of record and shall be paid out of the appropri¬ 
 ation hereinafter made. 
 
 And upon order duly entered of record by the 
 said commission any one or more members of the 
 said commission shall be empowered to take testimony 
 touching the matters within the jurisdiction of the 
 said commission and report the same to the said com¬ 
 mission. 
 
123 
 
 Said commission shall have power and are au¬ 
 thorized to adopt a seal and to make such rules not 
 inconsistent with or contrary to law for the govern¬ 
 ment of proceedings before it, as it may deem proper 
 and shall have the same power to enforce such rules 
 and to preserve order and decorum in its presence as 
 is vested hy the common law or statute of this State 
 in any court of general jurisdiction. 
 
 § 8. Said commission shall meet at the State cap- 
 itol building in Springfield on the second Tuesday 
 after notice of their appointment and shall imme¬ 
 diately elect a chairman and secretary from among 
 their number, one of whom shall he a coal mine owner 
 and the other a coal miner. Said commission shall 
 cause a record to he kept of all its proceedings. 
 
 Five members of the said commission shall con¬ 
 stitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but 
 a less number than a quorum may adjourn the meet¬ 
 ing of the commission from time to time. 
 
 Meetings of the said commission other than 
 called meetings, as provided for herein, may he held 
 at such times and places within the State of Illinois, 
 as may he fixed by the said commission. 
 
 A meeting of the said commission shall he held 
 upon the written request of any three members of the 
 said commission signed by them and delivered to the 
 secretary, who shall, upon receipt of such request, 
 notify each member of .said commission by mail of 
 such meeting so to be held, and the time and place 
 thereof. And no such meeting shall be held less than 
 five days after the mailing of notice of the said meet¬ 
 ing to the members of said commission by the secre¬ 
 tary. 
 
 Such called meeting shall he held either in 
 Springfield or Chicago. 
 
 § 4. Said commission shall report to the Governor 
 and to the General Assembly at its next regular ses¬ 
 sion, submitting, so far as they have unanimously 
 agreed, a proposed revision of mining laws of the 
 
124 
 
 State, together with such other recommendations as 
 to the commission shall seem fit and proper relating 
 to mining in the State of Illinois. 
 
 And where there is not unanimous agreement 
 upon any recommendation there shall be submitted in 
 like manner separate reports embodying the recom¬ 
 mendations of any one or more members of the said 
 commission, which said reports shall each set forth in 
 detail the recommendation of the commissioner or 
 commissioners signing said report and shall embody 
 his or their respective reasoRs for such recommenda¬ 
 tions, and his or their objection to the report of other 
 members of the commission. The duties and functions 
 of said commission shall cease and the terms of office 
 of the respective commissioners shall treminate upon 
 the adjournment of the Fifty-second General As¬ 
 sembly. 
 
 § 5. The members of said commission who are 
 coal mine owners and coal miners, as aforesaid, shall 
 receive no compensation for their services. The re¬ 
 maining three members of the commission shall 
 receive as compensation for their services the sum of 
 $10.00 per day for each day actually employed by 
 them as such commissioners. All members of the said 
 commission shall be reimbursed for their actual 
 expenses incurred in and about the actual work of 
 said commission. 
 
 Said commission may appoint a stenographer or 
 clerk and such other employees as are necessary and 
 shall fix their compensation and may incur such other 
 expenses as are properly incidental to the work of the 
 commission. 
 
 §6. The sum of seven thousand dollars ($7,000), 
 or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 
 appropriated for the postage, stationery, clerical and 
 expert services, and incidental traveling expenses of 
 the commission, and the per diem of members as 
 herein authorized, and the Auditor of Public Accounts 
 is hereby authorized to draw his warrants for the 
 
125 
 
 foregoing amount, or any part thereof, in payment of 
 any expenses, charges or disbursements authorized by 
 this Act, on order of this commission, signed by its 
 chairman, attested by its secretary, and approved by 
 the Governor. 
 
 The Department of Public Works and Buildings 
 is hereby authorized and directed to.provide all nec¬ 
 essary printing for the mining investigating commis¬ 
 sion, and testimony taken by it shall be reported in 
 full and may be published from time to time by the 
 comniission. 
 
 RULES AND REGLATIONS GOVERNING EX¬ 
 AMINATIONS. 
 
 Oral and Written. 
 
 1. The examination of all candidates shall con¬ 
 sist of a written and oral part. 
 
 State Mine Inspectors^ Examination, Time of Holding. 
 
 2. The written examination for State Mine In¬ 
 spectors will be held on Tuesday following registra¬ 
 tion, at 9 :00 o’clock a. m., the morning session closing 
 at 12 m. The afternoon session will begin at 2:00 
 o’clock p. m., and close at 5 :00 o’clock p. m. 
 
 Training and Experience Questions, Where Answered. 
 
 3. Each candidate for a certificate shall answer 
 a set of questions as to training and experience. 
 These questions can be taken to his room and answers 
 presented when candidate presents himself for the 
 oral examination. 
 
 Examination Papers, Designation and Humbering. 
 
 4. Numbers will be assigned to each candidate, 
 with which his examination paper shall be marked 
 and by which only he shall be known until after his 
 written examination has been corrected and graded. 
 
126 
 
 Oral Examination, When Held, 
 
 5. The oral examination of each candidate shall 
 be had separately after the written examination shall 
 be completed, and the applicant shall be called for 
 this purpose by the number assigned him. 
 
 Questions, 'Nature, Classification, Numl)ering. 
 
 6. Questions for each examination shall be uni¬ 
 form and shall consist of: 
 
 For Mine Inspectors.24 written questions; 
 
 For Mine Manager— 
 
 First class .20 written questions ; 
 
 Second class .10 written questions. 
 
 For Mine Examiners.15 written questions ; 
 
 For Hoisting Engineer.15 written questions. 
 
 The written part of the examination shall be 
 divided as follows: 
 
 For Mine Inspectors 
 
 12 questions, morning session, 
 12 questions, afternoon session. 
 
 For Mine Manager— 
 
 First class 
 
 / 10 questions, morning session, 
 \ 10 questions, afternoon session. 
 
 Second class. 
 
 10 questions, morning session ; 
 
 For Hoisting Engineer and Mine Examiner. 
 
 15 questions, morning session. 
 
 These questions shall be prepared by the Director 
 of the Department of Mines and Minerals, or under 
 his direction. 
 
 Manner of Conducting Examination. 
 
 7. All candidates, being assembled, shall be as¬ 
 signed to separate desks, provided with writing ma¬ 
 terial, and each candidate shall be given a list of 
 
127 
 
 printed questions required to i)e answered, also a 
 printed card, numbered, on which to ascribe his name 
 and address. This card shall be enclosed in a sealed 
 envelope and retained by him to present when he is 
 called for oral examination, the same to be opened by 
 the examiner and passed to the person keeping the 
 records of the examination. This will be after the 
 written work has been graded and posted. 
 
 Marhing and Rating. 
 
 8. A system of marking shall be established 
 which shall show the record made by each candidate 
 in the written, oral, training and personal experience, 
 the sum of which shall be the final rating of each 
 candidate. 
 
 Grading Papers. 
 
 9. A minimum shall be established above which 
 candidates must be graded in order to pass the exam¬ 
 ination and receive a certificate of competency. 
 
 Affidavit of Qualification. 
 
 10. All candidates who appear before the Mining 
 Board for examination must make an affidavit setting 
 forth the facts as to residence, age, experience, etc. 
 
 Registration Requirements. 
 
 11. Any person appearing for registration in an 
 intoxicated condition will not be permitted to register 
 for the examination, and if after registering a person 
 appears in an intoxicated condition prior to the time 
 of taking examination, he will not be allowed to take 
 such examination. 
 
 Amendment of Rules. 
 
 12. The Mining Board shall have a right at any 
 time to add to or modify these rules in any way, pro¬ 
 viding the changes shall have been put in w^riting and 
 presented at one meeting prior to their adoption. 
 
128 
 
 WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT. 
 
 Ax Act to promote the general ivelfare of the People 
 of this State hy providing compensation for acci¬ 
 dental injuries or death suffered in the course of 
 employment within this State; providing for the 
 enforcement and administering thereof, and a 
 penalty for its violation, and repealing an Act 
 entitled, ''An Act to promote the general welfare 
 of the people of this State hy providing compen¬ 
 sation for accidental injuries or death suffered in 
 the course of employments^ approved June 10, 
 1911 , in force May 1, 1912, (Approved June 28, 
 1913, in force July 1, 1913, with amendments in 
 force July 1, 1919. 
 
 Section 1. Employer—notice.] That an em¬ 
 ployer in this State, who does not come within the 
 classes enumerated by section three (3) of this Act, 
 may elect to provide and pay compensation for acci¬ 
 dental injuries sustained by any employee arising out 
 of and in course of the employment according to the 
 provisions of this Act, and thereby relieve himself 
 from any liability for the recovery of damages, except 
 as herein provided. 
 
 (a) Election by any employer to provide and pay 
 compensation according to the provisions of this Act 
 shall be made by the employer filing notice of such 
 election with the Industrial Board. 
 
 (b) Every employer within the provisions of this 
 Act who has elected to provided [provide] and pay 
 compensation according to the provisions of this Act, 
 shall be bound thereby as to all his employees covered 
 by this Act until January 1st of the next succeeding 
 
129 
 
 yeju* and for terms of eacli year thereafter: Provided, 
 any such employer who may have once elected, may 
 elect not to provide and pay the compensation herein 
 provided for accidents resnltinj^ in either injury or 
 death and occurring after the expiration of any such 
 calendar year by liling notice of such election with 
 the Industrial Board at least sixty days prior to the 
 expiration of any such calendar year, and hy posting 
 such notice at a conspicuous i)lace in the plant, shop, 
 office, room or place where such employee is emploj^ed, 
 or by personal service, in written or printed form, 
 upon such employee, at least sixty (00) days prior to 
 the expiration of any such calendar year. 
 
 (c) In the event any employer mentioned in this 
 section, elects to provide and pay the compensation 
 provided in this Act, then every employee of such 
 employer, as a part of his contract of hiring or who 
 may be employed at the time of the taking elfect of 
 this Act and the acceptance of its provisions by such 
 employer, shall be deemed to have accepted all the 
 provisions of this Act and shall be bound thereby un¬ 
 less within thirty (30) days after such hiring or after 
 the taking effect of this Act, and its acceptance by 
 such employee, he shall file a notice to the contrary 
 with the Industrial Board, whose duty it shall be to 
 immediately notify the employer, and until such notice 
 to the contrary is given to the employer, the measure 
 of liability of such employer shall be determined ac¬ 
 cording to the compensation provisions of this Act: 
 Provided, however, that any employee may withdraw 
 from the operation of this Act upon filling a written 
 notice of withdrawal at least ten (10) days prior to 
 January 1st of any year with the Industrial Board, 
 whose duty it shall be to immediately notify such em¬ 
 ployer by registered mail, and, until such notice to the 
 contrary is given to such employer, the measure of 
 liability of such employer shall be determined accord¬ 
 ing to the compensation provisions of this Act. 
 
 (d) Any such employer or employee may, with- 
 
130 
 
 out prejudice to any existing right or claim, withdraw 
 his election to reject this Act by giving thirty (30) 
 days’ written notice in such manner and form as may 
 l)e provided by the Industrial Board. (Amended by 
 Act approved June 25, 1917.) 
 
 § 12. Repealed.] Section two of an Act entitled, 
 “An Act to promote the general welfare of the people 
 of this State by providing compensation for accidental 
 injuries or death suffered in the course of employ¬ 
 ment within this State; providing for the enforcement 
 and administering thereof, and a penalty for its 
 violation, and repealing an Act entitled, ‘An Act to 
 promote the general welfare of the people of this 
 State by providing compensation for accidental inju¬ 
 ries or death suffered in the course of employment, 
 approved June 10, 1911, in force May 1, 1912,’ ” ap¬ 
 proved June 28, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, as subse¬ 
 quently amended, is hereby repealed. (Amended by 
 Act approved June 25, 1917. 
 
 § 3. Applies Automatically.] The provisions of 
 this Act hereinafter following shall apply automat¬ 
 ically, and without election to the State, county, city, 
 tovm, township, incorporated village or school district, 
 body politic or municipal corporation, and to all em¬ 
 ployers and their employees, engaged in any of the 
 following enterprises or businessses which are de¬ 
 clared to be extra hazardous, namely: 
 
 1. The erection, maintaining, removing, remodel¬ 
 ing, altering or demolishing of any structure, except 
 as provided in sub-paragraph 8 of this section. 
 
 2. Construction, excavating or electrical work, 
 except as provided in sub-paragraph 8 of this section. 
 
 3. Carriage by land or water and loading or un¬ 
 loading in connection therewith, including the dis¬ 
 tribution of any commodity by horse-drawn or motor 
 driven vehicle where the employer employs more 
 than three employees in the enterprise or business, ex¬ 
 cept as provided in sub-paragraph 8 of this section. 
 
131 
 
 4. The operation of any warehouse or general or 
 terminal store houses. 
 
 5. Mining, surface mining or quarrying. 
 
 G. Any enterprise in which explosive materials 
 are manufactured, handled or used in dangerous 
 quantities. 
 
 7. In any enterprise wherein molten metal, or 
 explosive or injurious gases or vapors, or inflammable 
 vapors or fluids, or corrosive acids, are manufactured, 
 used, generated, stored or conveyed in dangerous 
 quantities. 
 
 8. In any enterprise in which statutory or mu¬ 
 nicipal ordinance rtgulations are now or shall here¬ 
 after be imposed for the regulating, guarding, use or 
 the placing of machinery or appliances or for the pro¬ 
 tection and safeguarding of the employees or the 
 public therein; each of which occupations, enterprises 
 or businesses are hereby declared to be extra hazard¬ 
 ous : Provided, nothing contained heerin shall be con¬ 
 strued to apply to any work, employment or opera¬ 
 tions done, had or conducted by farmers and others 
 engaged in farming, tillage of the soil, or stock rais¬ 
 ing, or to those who rent, demise or lease land for any 
 such purpose's, or to any one in their employ or to any 
 work done on a farm, or country place, no matter 
 what kind of work or service is being done or ren¬ 
 dered. (Amended by Act approved June 28, 1919.) 
 
 §31/^. Pleadings—certificate.] (a) If the plain¬ 
 tiff in any action mentioned in section 3 shall in his 
 declaration or in his other pleading allege that the 
 employer has filed notice of his election not to pro¬ 
 vide and pay compensation according to the provisions 
 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act and such allega¬ 
 tion be not denied by a verified pleading, then such 
 employer shall for the purpose of that action be con¬ 
 clusively presumed to have filed his notice of non¬ 
 election. • 
 
 (b) A certificate of the fact of the filing by an 
 employer of the notice of non-election provided in sec- 
 
132 
 
 tion 2 and of the non-withdrawal thereof shall be 
 prima facie proof in any action mentioned in section 3 
 of the fact of the filing of such notice of non-election 
 and of the non-withdrawal thereof. Such certificate 
 may be under the seal of the Industrial Board and 
 signed by any member or the secretary thereof, of 
 which seal and signature as such oflicer the court 
 shall take judicial notice. Said certificate may be in 
 substantially the following form: 
 
 This is to certify that the attached is a correct 
 copy of notice filed with the Industrial Board by 
 
 .on the.day 
 
 of., 19_, electing not to 
 
 provide and pay compensation according to the pro¬ 
 visions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Illi¬ 
 nois, and that the original of said notice is now on 
 file in the office of the Industrial Board and has not 
 been withdrawn since the date of the filing thereof. 
 
 In witness whereof, this certificate has been sub¬ 
 scribed and the seal of the Industrial Board affixed 
 this. ® .day of., 19 
 
 .of Industrial Board. 
 
 (Amended by Act approved May 31, 1917.) 
 
 § 4. Ter:m “employer”—how construed.] The 
 term “employer” as used in this Act shall be con¬ 
 strued to be: 
 
 First —The State, and each county, city, town, 
 township, incorporated village, school district, body 
 politic, or municipal corporation therein. 
 
 Second —Every person, firm, public or private 
 corporation, including hospitals, public service, elee- 
 mosynaiy, religious or charitable, corporations or 
 iissociations who has any person in service or under 
 any contract for hire, express or implied, oral or 
 written, and who is engaged in any of the enterprises 
 or businesses enumerated in section three (3) of this 
 Act, or who at or prior to the time of the accident to 
 the employee for which compensation under, this Act 
 
133 
 
 may be claimed, shall in the manner provided in this 
 Act, have elected to become subject to the provisions 
 of this Act, and who shall not, prior to such accident, 
 have effected a withdrawal of such election in the 
 manner provided in this Act. (Amended by Act ap¬ 
 proved June 25, 1917.) 
 
 § 5. Term “employee” —now construed.] The 
 term “employee” as used in this Act, shall be con¬ 
 strued to mean: 
 
 First —Every person in the service of the State, 
 county, city, town, township, incorporated village or 
 school district, body politic or municipal corporations 
 therein, under appointment, or contract of hire, ex¬ 
 press or implied, oral or written, except any official 
 of the State, or of any county, city, town, township, 
 incorporated village, school district, body politic or 
 municipal corporation therein: Provided, that any 
 such employee, his personal representative, benefi¬ 
 ciaries or heirs, who is, are or shall be entitled to 
 receive a pension or benefit for or on account of disa¬ 
 bility or death arising out of or in the course of his 
 employment from a pension or benefit fund to which 
 the State or any county, town, township, incorporated 
 village, school district, body politic or municipal cor¬ 
 poration therein is a contributor, in whole or in part, 
 shall be entitled to receive only such part of pension 
 or benefit as in excess of the amount of compensation 
 recovered and received by such employee, his per¬ 
 sonal representative, beneficiaries or heirs under this 
 Act: And, provided, f urther, that one employed by a 
 contractor who has contracted with the State, or a 
 county, city, town, township, incorporated village, 
 school district, body politic or municipal corporation, 
 therein, through its representatives, shall not be con¬ 
 sidered, as an employee of the State, county, city, 
 town, township, incorporated village, school district, 
 body politic or municipal corporation which made the 
 contract. 
 
 Second —Every person in the service of another 
 
134 
 
 under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or 
 written, including aliens, and minors who are legally 
 permitted to work under the laws of the State, who, 
 for the purpose of this Act, shall be considered the 
 same and hare the same power to contract, receive 
 payments and give quittances therefor, as adult em¬ 
 ployees, but not including any person who is not 
 engaged in the usual course of the trade, business, 
 profession or occupation of his employer: Provided, 
 that employees shall not be included within the provi¬ 
 sions of this Act when excluded bv the laws of the 
 United States relating to liability of employers to 
 their employees for personal injuries where such laws 
 are held to be exclusive. (Amended by Act approved 
 May 31, 1917.) 
 
 § 6. Employee’s right to reco\t:r damages.] No 
 common law or statutory right to recover damages for 
 injury or death sustained by any employee while 
 engaged in the line of his duty as such employee other 
 than the compensation herein provided shall be 
 available to any employee who is covered by the pro¬ 
 visions of this Act, to any one wholly or partially 
 dependent upon him, the legal representatives of his 
 estate, or any one otherwise entitled to recover dam¬ 
 ages for such injury. 
 
 § 7. Amount of compensation for injetiy result¬ 
 ing IN DEATH.] The amount of compensation which 
 shall be paid for an injury to the employee resulting 
 in death shall be: 
 
 (a) If the employee leaves any widow, child or 
 children whom he was under legal obligations to sup¬ 
 port at the time of his injury, a sum equal to four 
 times the average annual earnings of the employee, 
 but not less in any event than one thousand six hun¬ 
 dred fifty dollars and not more in any event than 
 three thousand five hundred dollars. Any compensa¬ 
 tion payments other than necessary medical, surgical 
 or hospital fees or services shall be deducted in ascer¬ 
 taining the amount payable on death. 
 
135 
 
 (b) If no amount is payable under paragraph 
 (a) of this section and the employee leaves any par¬ 
 ent, husband, child or children who at the time of 
 injury were totally dependent upon the earnings of 
 the employee, then a sum equal to four times the 
 average annual earnings of the employee, hut not less 
 in any event than one thousand six hundred fifty dol¬ 
 lars, and not more in any event than three thousand 
 five hundred dollars. 
 
 (c) If no amount is payable under paragraphs 
 (a) or (b) of this section and the employee leaves 
 any parent, child or children, grandparent or grand¬ 
 child, who at the time of injury were dependent upon 
 the earnings of the employee, then such proportion of 
 a sum equal to four times the average annual earn¬ 
 ings of the employee as such dependency hears to total 
 dependency, hut not less in any event than one 
 thousand six hundred fifty dollars and not more in 
 any event than three thousand five hundred dollars. 
 Any compensation payments other than necessary 
 medical, surgical or hospital fees or services shall be 
 deducted in ascertaining the amounts payable on 
 death. 
 
 (d) If no amount is payable under paragraphs 
 (a), (b) or (c) of this section and the employee 
 leaves collateral heirs dependent at -the time of the 
 injury to the employee upon his earnings, such a per¬ 
 centage of the sum provided in paragraph (a) of this 
 section as the average annual contributions which the 
 deceased made to the support of such dependent col¬ 
 lateral heirs during the two years preceding the in¬ 
 jury bears to his average annual earnings during such 
 two years. 
 
 (e) If no amount is payable under paragraphs 
 (a), (b), (c), or (d) of this section, a sum not to 
 exceed one hundred and fifty dollars for burial ex¬ 
 penses to be paid by the employer to the undertaker 
 or to the person or persons incurring the expense of 
 burial. 
 
136 
 
 (f) For all compensation, except for burial ex¬ 
 penses provided in this section to be paid in case in¬ 
 jury results in death, shall be paid in installments 
 equal to one-half the average earnings, at the same 
 intervals at which the wages or earnings of the em¬ 
 ployee were paid; or if this shall not be feasible, then 
 the installments shall be paid weekly: Provided, such 
 compensation may be paid in a lump sum upon peti¬ 
 tion as provided in section 9 of this Act. 
 
 (g) The compensation to be paid for injury 
 which results in death, as provided in this section, 
 shall be paid to the persons who form the basis for 
 determining the amount of compensation to be paid 
 by the employer, the respective shares to be in the 
 proportion of their respective dependency at the time 
 of the injury on the earnings of the deceased: Pro¬ 
 vided, that the Industrial Commission or an arbitrator 
 thereof may, in its or his discretion, order or award 
 the payment to the parent or grandparent of a child 
 for the latter’s support the amount of compensation 
 which but for such order or award would have been 
 paid to such child as its share of the compensation 
 payable, which order or award may be modified from 
 time to time by the Commission in its discretion with 
 respect to the persons to whom shall be paid the 
 amount of said order or award remaining unpaid at 
 the time of said modification. 
 
 The payments of compensation by the employer 
 in accordance with the order or award of the Indus¬ 
 trial Commission shall discharge such employer from 
 all further obligation as to such compensation. 
 
 In a case where any of the persons who would be 
 entitled to compensation is living at any place outside 
 of the United States, then payment shall be made to 
 the personal representative of the deceased employee. 
 The distribution by such personal representative to 
 the persons entitled shall be made to such persons and 
 in such manner as the Commission shall order. 
 
 (h) 1. Whenever in paragraph (a) of this sec- 
 
137 
 
 tioii a minimum of one thousand six hundred fifty 
 dollars is provided, such minimum shall be increased 
 in the following cases to the following amounts: 
 
 One thousand seven hundred fifty dollars in case 
 of a widow and one child under the age of IG years 
 at the time of the death of the employee. 
 
 One thousand eight hundred fifty dollars in case 
 of a widow" and tw"o or more children under the age 
 of 16 years at the time of the death of the employee. 
 
 2. Wherever in paragraph (a) of this section a 
 maximum of three thousand five hundred dollars is 
 provided, such maximum shall he increased in the 
 following cases to the follow"ing amounts: 
 
 Three thousand seven hundred fifty dollars in 
 case of a widow and one child under the age of 10 
 years at the time of the death of the employee. 
 
 Four thousand dollars in case of a widow and 
 tw "0 or more children under the age of IG years at 
 the time of the death of the employee. (Amended by 
 Act approved June 28, 1919. 
 
 § 8. Amount of compensation.] The amount of 
 compensation which shall be paid to the employee for 
 an injury not resulting in death shall be: 
 
 (a) The employer shall provide the necessary 
 first aid medical and surgical services; all necessary 
 hospital services during the period for w"hich com¬ 
 pensation may be payable; also all necessary medical 
 and surgical services for a period not longer than 
 eight w’eeks, not to exceed, how^ever, an amount of 
 two hundred dollars, and in addition such medical or 
 surgical services in excess of such limits as may be 
 necessary during the time such hospital services are 
 furnished. All of the foregoing services shall be lim¬ 
 ited to those w^hich are reasonably required to cure 
 and relieve from the effects of the injury. The em¬ 
 ployee may elect to secure his ow"n physician, surgeon 
 or hospital services at his owm expense. 
 
 (b) If the period of temijorary total incapacity 
 for w"ork lasts for more than six w^orking days, com-. 
 
138 
 
 pensation equal to fifty percentum of the earnings, 
 ])nt not less than $7.00 nor more than $12.00 per 
 week, beginning on the eighth day of such temporary 
 total incapacity and continuing as long as the tempo¬ 
 rary total incapacity lasts, but not after the amount 
 of compensation paid equals the amount which 
 would have been payable as a death benefit under 
 paragraph (a), section 7, if the employee had died as 
 a result of the injury at the time thereof, leaving 
 heirs surviving as provided in said paragraph (a), 
 section 7: Provided, that in the case where tempo¬ 
 rary total incapacity for work continues for a period 
 of four weeks from the day of the injury, then com¬ 
 pensation shall commence on the day after the injury. 
 
 (c) For any serious and permanent disfigurement 
 to the hand, head or face, the employee shall be en¬ 
 titled to compensation for such disfigurement, the 
 amount fixed by agreement or by arbitration in ac¬ 
 cordance with the provisions of this Act, which 
 amount shall not exceed one-quarter of the amount 
 of the compensation which would have been payable 
 as a death benefit under paragraph (a), section 7: 
 Provided, that no compensation shall be payable under 
 this paragraph where compensation is payable under 
 paragraph (d), (e) or (f) of this section: And, pro¬ 
 vided, further, that when the disfigurement is to the 
 band, head or face as a result of any injury, .for 
 which injury compensation is not payable under para¬ 
 graph (d), (e) or (f) of this section, compensation 
 for such disfigurement may be had under this para¬ 
 graph. 
 
 (d) If. after the injury has been sustained, the 
 employee as a result thereof becomes partially in- 
 Ci^pacitated from pursuing his usual and customary 
 line of employment, he shall, except in the cases cov¬ 
 ered by the specific schedule set forth in paragraph 
 
 (e) of this section, receive compensation, subject to 
 the limitations as to time and maximum amounts 
 fixed in paragraphs (b) and (h) of this section, equal 
 
139 
 
 to fifty percentum of the difference between the aver¬ 
 age amount which he earned before the accident, and 
 the average amount which he is earning or is able 
 to earn in some suitable employment or business after 
 the accident. 
 
 (e) For injuries in the following schedule, the 
 employee shall receive in addition to compensation 
 during the period of temporary total incapacity for 
 work resulting from such injury, in accordance with 
 the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this sec¬ 
 tion, compensation, for a further period, subject to 
 the limitations as to time and amounts fixed in para¬ 
 graphs (b) and (h) of this section, for the specific 
 loss herein mentioned, as follows, but shall not re¬ 
 ceive any compensation for such injuries under any 
 other provisions of this Act. 
 
 1. For the loss of a thumb, or the permanent am^; 
 complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the aver 
 age weekly wage during sixty weeks; 
 
 2. For the loss of a first finger, commonly called 
 the index finger, or the permanent and complete loss 
 of its use, fifty percentum of the average weekly 
 wage during thirty-five weeks; 
 
 3. For the loss of a second finger, or the per¬ 
 manent and complete loss of its use, fifty percentum 
 of the average weekly wage during thirty weeks: 
 
 4. For the loss of a third finger, or the perma¬ 
 nent and complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of 
 the average weekly wage during twenty weeks ; 
 
 5. For the loss of a fourth finger, commonly 
 called the little finger, or the permanent and com¬ 
 plete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the average 
 weekly wage during fifteen weeks; 
 
 6. The loss of the first phalange of the thumb, 
 or of any finger shall be considered to be equal to the 
 loss of one-half of such thumb or finger and compen¬ 
 sation shall be one-half the amount above specified. 
 
 7. The loss of more than one phalange shall be 
 considered as the loss of the entire finger or thumb; 
 
140 
 
 Provided, hoicever, that in no case shall the amount 
 received for more than one finger exceed the amount 
 provided in this schedule for the loss of a hand; 
 
 8. For the loss of a great toe, fifty percentum of 
 the average weekly wage during thirty weeks; 
 
 9. For the loss of one toe other than the great 
 toe, fifty percentum of the average weekly wage dur¬ 
 ing ten weeks, and for the additional loss of one or 
 more toes other than the great toe, fifty percentum of 
 the average weekly wage during an additional ten 
 weeks; 
 
 10. The loss of the first phalange of any toe shall 
 be considered to be the equal to the loss of one-half 
 of such toe, and compensation shall be one-half of the 
 amount above specified; 
 
 11. The loss of more than one phalange shall be 
 considered as the loss of the entire toe; 
 
 12. For the loss of a hand, or the permanent and 
 complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the aver¬ 
 age weekly wage during one hundred and fifty 
 weeks; 
 
 13. For the loss Of an arm or the permanent and 
 complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the aver¬ 
 age weekly wage during two hundred weeks; 
 
 14. For the loss of a foot, or the permanent and 
 complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the aver¬ 
 age weekly wage during one hundred and twenty-five 
 weeks; 
 
 15. For the loss of a leg, or the permanent and 
 complete loss of its use, fifty percentum of the aver¬ 
 age weekly wage during one hundred and seventy-five 
 weeks; 
 
 16. For the loss of the sight of an eye or for the 
 permanent and complete loss of its use, fifty per¬ 
 centum of the average weekly wage during one hun¬ 
 dred weeks; 
 
 17. For the permanent partial loss of use of a 
 member or sight of an eye, fifty percentum of the 
 average weekly wage during that portion of the num- 
 
141 
 
 ber of weeks in the foregoing schedule provided for 
 the loss of such member or sight of an eye which the 
 partial loss of use thereof bears to the total loss of 
 use of such member or sight of eye. 
 
 18. The loss of both hands, or both arms, or both 
 feet, or both legs, or both eyes, or of any two there¬ 
 of, or the permanent and complete loss of use there¬ 
 of, shall constitute total and permanent disability, to 
 be compensated according to the compensation lixed 
 by paragraph (f) of this section: Provided, that these 
 specific cases of total and permanent disability shall 
 not be construed as excluding other cases. 
 
 (f) In case of complete disability, which renders 
 the employee wholly and permanently incapable of 
 work, compensation equal to fifty percentum of his 
 earnings, but not less than $7.00 nor more than 
 $12.00 per week, commencing on the day after the 
 injury, and continuing until the amount paid equals 
 the amount which would have been payable as a 
 death benefit under paragraph (a), section 7, if the 
 employee had died as a result of the injury at the 
 time thereof, leaving heirs surviving as provided in 
 said paragraph (a), section 7, and thereafter a pen¬ 
 sion during life annually equal to 8 per cent of the 
 amount which would have been payable as a death 
 benefit under paragraph (a), section 7, if the em¬ 
 ployee had died as a result of the injury at the time 
 thereof, leaving heirs surviving, as provided in said 
 paragraph (a), section 7. Such pension shall not be 
 less than $10.00 per month and shall be payable 
 monthly. 
 
 (g) In case death occurs as a result of the injury 
 before the total of the payments made equals the 
 amount payable as a death benefit, then in case the 
 employee leaves any widow, child, or children, par¬ 
 ents, grandparents, or other lineal heirs, entitled to 
 compensation under section 7, the difference between 
 the compensation for death and the sum of the pay¬ 
 ments made to the employee shall be paid, at the 
 
142; 
 
 option of the employer, either to the personal repre¬ 
 sentative or to the beneficiaries of the deceased em¬ 
 ployee, and distributed, as provided in paragraph (f) 
 of section 7, but in no case shall the amount payalde 
 under this paragraph be less than $500.00. 
 
 (h) In no event shall the compensation to be 
 paid exceed fifty percentum of the average weekly 
 wage or exceed $12.00 per week in amount; nor, ex¬ 
 cept in case of complete disability, as defined above, 
 shall any payments extend over a period of more than 
 eight years from the date of the accident. In case 
 an injured employee shall be incompetent at the time 
 when any right or privilege accrues to him under the 
 provisions of this Act a conservator or guardian may 
 be appointed, pursuant to law, and may, on behalf of 
 such incompetent, claim and exercise any such right 
 or privilege with the same force and effect as if the 
 employee himself had been competent and had claimed 
 or exercised said right or privilege; and no limita¬ 
 tions of time by this Act provided shall run so long 
 as said incompetent employee is without a conservator 
 or a guardian. 
 
 (i) All compensation provided for in paragraphs 
 (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of this section, other than 
 cases of pension for life, shall be paid in installments 
 at the same intervals at which the wages or earnings 
 of the employee were paid at the time of the injury, 
 or if this shall not be feasible, then the installments 
 shall be paid weekly. 
 
 (j) 1. Wherever in this section there is a pro¬ 
 vision for fifty percentum, such percentum shall be 
 increased five percentum for each child of the em¬ 
 ployee under 16 years of age at the time of the injury 
 to the employee until such percentum shall reach a 
 maximum of sixty-five percentum. 
 
 2. Wherever in this section a weekly minimum of 
 $7.00 is provided, such minimum shall be increased in 
 the following cases to the following amounts: 
 
 $8.00 in case of any employee having one child 
 
143 
 
 under the age of 16 years at the time of the injury 
 to the employee; 
 
 $9.00 in a case of an employee having two chil¬ 
 dren under the age of 16 years at the time of the 
 injury to the employee; 
 
 $10.00 in a case of an employee having three or 
 more children under the age of 16 years at the time 
 of the injury to the employee. 
 
 3. Wherever in this section a weekly maximum 
 of $12.00 i^ provided, such maximum shall he in¬ 
 creased in the following cases to the following 
 amounts: 
 
 $13.00 in case of an employee with one child 
 under the age of 16 years at the time of the injury to 
 the employee; 
 
 $14.00 in case of an employee with two children 
 under the age of 16 years at the time of injury to the 
 employee. 
 
 $15.00 in case of an employee with three or more 
 children under the age of 16 years at the time of in¬ 
 jury to the employee. 
 
 4. The increases in the above percentum and the 
 minimum and maximum amount shall be paid only 
 so long as the child upon which the increase is based 
 remains under the age of 16 years. (Amended by Act 
 approved June 28, 1919.) 
 
 § 9. Where payment in lump sum desired.] 
 Any employer or employee or beneficiary who shall 
 desire to have such compensation, or any unpaid part 
 thereof, paid in a lump sum, may petition the In¬ 
 dustrial Board, asking that such compensation be so 
 paid, and if, upon proper notice to the interested 
 parties and a proper showing made before .such board, 
 it appears to the interest of the parties that such com¬ 
 pensation be so paid, the board may order the com¬ 
 mutation of the compensation to an equivalent lump 
 sum, which commutation shall be an amount which 
 will equal the total sum of the probable future pay¬ 
 ments capitalized at their present value upon the 
 
144 
 
 basis of interest calculated at three percentum per 
 annum with annual rests: Provided, that in case in¬ 
 dicating complete disability no petition for a commu¬ 
 tation to a lump sum basis shall be entertained by the 
 Industrial Board until after the expiration of six 
 months from the date of the injury, and where neces¬ 
 sary, upon proper application being made, a guardian, 
 conservator or administrator, as the case may be, may 
 be appointed for any person under disability who may 
 be entitled to any such compensation, and an employer 
 bound by the terms of this Act, and liable to pay such 
 compensation, may petition for the appointment of the 
 public administrator, or a conservator, or guardian, 
 where no legal representative has been appointed or 
 is acting for such party or parties so under disability. 
 Either party may reject an award of a lump sum pay¬ 
 ment of compensation, except an award for compensa¬ 
 tion under section 7 or paragraph (e) of section 8 or 
 for the injuries defined in the last paragraph of para¬ 
 graph (e) of section 8 as constituting total and per¬ 
 manent disability, by filing his written rejection 
 thereof with the said board within ten days after 
 notice to him of the award, in which event compensa¬ 
 tion shall be payable in installments as herein pro¬ 
 vided. (As amended-by Act approved June 28, 1915; 
 in force July 1, 1915.) 
 
 § 10. Basis for computixg compexsatiox.] The 
 basis for computing the compensation provided for in 
 sections 7 and 8 of the Act shall be as follows: 
 
 (a) The compensation shall be computed on the 
 basis of the annual earnings which the injured per¬ 
 son received as salary, wages or earnings if in the 
 employment of the same employer continuously dur¬ 
 ing the year next preceding the injury. 
 
 (b) Employment by the same employer shall be 
 taken to mean employment by the same employer in 
 the grade in which the employee was employed at the 
 time of the accident, uninterrupted by absence from 
 work due to illness or any other unavoidable cause. 
 
145 
 
 (<?) If tlio injured person has not been engaged 
 in the einployinent of the same employer for the full 
 year immediately preceding the accident, the com¬ 
 pensation shall he computed according to the annual 
 earnings which persons of the same class in the same 
 employment and same location, (or if that he imprac¬ 
 ticable, of neighboring employments of the same kind) 
 have earned during such period. 
 
 (d) As to employees in employments in which it 
 is the custom to operate throughout the working days 
 of the year, the annual earnings, if not otherwise 
 determinable, shall be regarded as 300 times the 
 average daily earnings in such computation. 
 
 (e) As to employees in employments in which it 
 is the custom to operate for a part of the whole num¬ 
 ber of working days in each year, such number, if the 
 annual earnings are not otherwise determinable, shall 
 he used instead of 300 as a basis for computing the 
 annual earnings: P^'ovided, the minimum number of 
 days which shall be so used for the basis of the year’s 
 work shall not be less than 200. 
 
 (f) In the case of injured employees who earn 
 either no wage or less than the earnings of adult day 
 laborers in the same line of employment in that local¬ 
 ity, the yearly wage shall be reckoned according to 
 the average annual earning of adults of the same 
 class in the same (or if that is impracticable then of 
 neighboring) employments. 
 
 (g) Earnings, for the purpose of this section, 
 shall be based on the earnings for the number of 
 hours commonly regarded as a day’s work for that 
 employment, and shall exclude overtime earnings. 
 The earnings shall not include any sum which the 
 employer has been accustomed to pay the employee to 
 cover any special expense entailed on him by the 
 nature of his employment. 
 
 (h) In computing the compensation to be paid 
 to any employee, who, before the accident for which 
 he claims compensation, was disabled and drawing 
 
146 
 
 compensation under the terms of this Act, the com¬ 
 pensation for each subsequent injury shall be appor¬ 
 tioned according to the proportion of incapacity and 
 disability caused by the respective injuries which he 
 may have suffered. 
 
 (i) To determine the amount of compensation 
 for each installment period, the amount per annum 
 shall be ascertained pursuant hereto, and such 
 amount divided by the number of installment periods 
 per annum. 
 
 § 11. COMPEXSATIOX MEASUKE OF RESPONSIBILITY 
 e:mployee assumed under act.] The compensation 
 herein provided, together with the provisions of this 
 Act shall be the measure of the responsibility of any 
 employer engaged in any of the enterprises or busi¬ 
 nesses enumerated in section three (3) of this Act, or 
 of any employer who is not engaged in any such enter¬ 
 prises or businesses, but who has elected to provide 
 and pay compensation for accidental injuries sus¬ 
 tained by any employee arising out of and in the 
 course of the employment according to the provision 
 of this Act, and whose election to continue under this 
 Act, has not been nullified by any action of his em¬ 
 ployees as provided for in this Act. (Amended by Act 
 approved June 25, 1917.) 
 
 § 12. Injured employee must submit to ex¬ 
 amination.] An employee entitled to receive disabil¬ 
 ity payments shall be required, if requested by the 
 employer, to submit himself, at the expense of the 
 employer, for examination to a duly qualified medical 
 practitioner or surgeon selected by the employer, at a 
 time and place reasonably convenient for the em¬ 
 ployee, as soon as practicable after the injury, and 
 also one week after the first examination and there¬ 
 after at intervals not oftener than once every four 
 weeks, which examination shall be for the purpose of 
 determining the nature, extent and probable duration 
 of the injury received by the employee, and for the 
 purpose of ascertaining the amount- of compensation 
 
147 
 
 J 
 
 which may he due the employee from time to time for 
 disability according to the i)rovisions of this Act: 
 Provided, hoivcvcr, that such examination shall he 
 made in the presence of a duly qualified medical ijrac- 
 titioner or surgeon provided and paid for by the em¬ 
 ployee, if such employees so desires. In all cases 
 where the examination is made by a surgeon engaged 
 by the employer and the injured employee has no 
 surgeon present at such examination, it shall be the 
 duty of the surgeon making the examination at the 
 instance of the employer to deliver to the injured em¬ 
 ployee, upon his request or that of his representative 
 a statement in writing of the condition and extent of 
 the injury to the same extent that said surgeon reports 
 to the employer. If the employee refuses so to sub¬ 
 mit himself to examination or unnecessarily obstructs 
 the same, his right to compensation payments shall be 
 temporarily suspended until such examination shall 
 have taken place, and no compensation shall be pay¬ 
 able under this Act for such period. It shall be the 
 duty of surgeons treating an injured employee who is 
 likely to die and treating him at the instance of the 
 employer to have called in another surgeon, to be 
 designated and paid for by either the injured em¬ 
 ployee or by the person or persons who would become 
 his beneficiary or beneficiaries to make an examina¬ 
 tion before the death of such injured employee. (As 
 amended by an Act approved June 28, 1915; in force 
 July 1, 1915.) 
 
 § 13a. Industrial board created—appointment— 
 TERM OF office.] There is hereby created a board 
 which shall be known as the Industrial Board to con¬ 
 sist of five members to be appointed by the Governor, 
 by and with the consent of the Senate, two of whom 
 shall be representative citizens of the employing class 
 operating under this Act, and two of whom shall be 
 - representative citizens of the class of employees 
 operating under this Act, and one of whom shall be a 
 representative citizen not identified with either the 
 
148 
 
 employing or employee classes and who shall be 
 designated by the Governor as chairman. Appoint¬ 
 ment of members to places on the first board or to 
 fill vacancies on said board may be made during 
 recesses of the Senate, but shall be subject to con¬ 
 firmation by the Senate at the next ensuing session 
 of the Legislature. 
 
 (b) When there shall become effective the Act 
 known as “The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois,’' 
 being an Act entitled “An Act in relation to the civil 
 administration of the State Government,” there shall 
 thereupon be vested in the Industrial Commission 
 and the industrial officers thereof by said Act created, 
 all of the powers and duties vested in the Industrial 
 Board by the Workmen’s Compensation Act, and 
 thereupon wherever in the Workmen’s Compensation 
 Act reference shall be made to the Industrial Board, 
 the board or to any member thereof, it shall be con¬ 
 strued as referring and shall apply to the said In¬ 
 dustrial Commission, the said Commission, and any 
 industrial officer thereof, respectively. (Amended by 
 Act approved June 25, 1917.) 
 
 § 14. Salary—secretary—clerks—seal.] The 
 salary of each of the members of the Commission ap¬ 
 pointed by the Governor shall be Five thousand dol¬ 
 lars ($5,000.00) per year. The Commission shall 
 appoint a secretary and shall employ such assistants 
 and clerical help as may be necessary. 
 
 The salary of the arbitrators designated by the 
 Commission shall be at the rate of Three thousand 
 dollars ($3,000.00) per year. 
 
 • The members of the Commission and the arbitra¬ 
 tors shall have reimbursed to them their actual travel¬ 
 ing expenses and disbursements made or incurred by 
 them in the discharge of their official duties while 
 away from their places of residence in the perform¬ 
 ance of their duties. The Commission shall provide 
 itself with a seal for the authentication of its orders, 
 awards, and proceedings, upon which shall be in- 
 
149 
 
 scribed the name of the Commission and the words 
 “Illinois—Seal”. (Amended by Act approved Jnne 
 28, 1919.) 
 
 § 15. Jurisdiction — duties.] The Industrial Board 
 shall have jurisdiction over the operation and admin¬ 
 istration of this Act, and said board shall perform all 
 the duties imposed upon it by this Act, and such 
 further duties as may hereafter be imposed by law, 
 and the rules of the board not inconsistent therewith. 
 
 § 16. Rules and orders — procedure — powers.] 
 The board may make rules and orders for carrying 
 out the duties imposed upon it by law, which rules 
 and orders shall be deemed prima fade reasonable 
 and valid; and the process and procedure before the 
 board shall be as simple and summary as reasonably 
 may be. The board upon application of either party 
 may issue declimus potestatem directed to a commis¬ 
 sioner, notary public, justice of the peace or any other 
 officer authorized by law to administer oaths, to take 
 the depositions of such witness or witnesses as may 
 be necessary in the judgment of such applicant. Such 
 dedimus potestatem may issue to any of the officers 
 aforesaid in any state or territory of the United 
 States or in any foreign country. The board shall 
 have the power to adopt necessary rules to govern the 
 issue of such dedimus potestatem. The board, or any 
 member thereof, or any arbitrator designated by said 
 board shall have the power to administer oaths, sub¬ 
 poena and examine witnesses, to issue subpoenas duces 
 tecum, requiring the production of such books, 
 papers, records and documents as may be evidence of 
 any matter under inquiry, and to examine and in¬ 
 spect the same and such places or premises as may 
 relate to tjie question in dispute. Said board, or any 
 member thereof, or any arbitrator designated by said 
 board, shall on written request of either party to the 
 dispute, issue subpoenas for the attendance of such 
 witnesses and production of such books, papers, rec¬ 
 ords and documents as shall be designated in said 
 
150 
 
 applications, providing, however, that the parties 
 applying for such subpoena shall advance the officer 
 and witness fees provided for in suits pending in the 
 circuit court. Service of such subpoenas shall be 
 made by any sheriff or constable or other person. In 
 case any person refuses to comply with an order of 
 the board or subpoena issued by it or any member 
 thereof, or any arbitrator designated by said board or 
 to permit an inspection of places or premises, or to 
 produce any books, papers, records, or documents, or 
 any witness refuses to testify to any matters regard¬ 
 ing which he may be lawfully interrogated, the county 
 court of the county in which said hearing or matter 
 is pending, on application of any member of the board 
 or any arbitrator designated by the board, shall com¬ 
 pel obedience by attachment proceedings, as for con¬ 
 tempt, as in a case of disobedience of the require¬ 
 ments of a subpoena from such court on a refusal to 
 testify therein. 
 
 The board at its expense shall provide a stenog¬ 
 rapher to take the testimony and record of proceed¬ 
 ings at the hearings before an arbitrator, committee 
 of arbitration, or the board, and said stenographer 
 shall furnish a transcript of such testimony or pro¬ 
 ceedings to any person requesting it upon payment to 
 him therefor of five cents per one hundred words for 
 the original and three cents per one hundred words 
 for each copy of such transcript. 
 
 The board shall have the power to determine the 
 reasonableness and fix the amount of any fee or com¬ 
 pensation charged by any person for any service per¬ 
 formed in connection with this Act, or for which 
 payment is to be made under this Act or rendered in 
 securing any right under this Act. (Amended by Act 
 approved May 13, 1917.) 
 
 § 17. Blank forms—books and records.] The 
 board shall cause to be printed and furnish free of 
 charge upon request by any employer or employee 
 such blank forms as it shall deem requisite to facih- 
 
151 
 
 tate or promote the efficient administration of this 
 Act, and the performance of the duties of the board; 
 it shall provide a proper record in which shall be 
 entered and indexed the name of any employer who 
 shall file a notice of declination or withdrawal 
 under this Act, and the date of the filing thereof; 
 and a proper record in which shall be entered 
 and indexed the name of any employee who 
 shall file such a notice of declination or withdrawal, 
 and the date of the filing thereof; and such other 
 notices as may be required by the terms and intend¬ 
 ment of this Act; and records in which shall be 
 recorded all proceedings, orders and awards had or 
 made by the board, or by the arbitration committees, 
 and such other books or records as it shall deem 
 necessary, all such records to be kept in the oflSce of 
 the board. 
 
 § 18. Questions determined by industrial board.] 
 All questions arising under this Act, if not settled by 
 agreement of the parties interested therein, shall, 
 except as otherwise provided, be determined by the 
 Industrial Board. 
 
 § 19. Disputed questions of law or fact—com¬ 
 mittee OF ARBITRATION-DECISION-PETITION FOR RE¬ 
 VIEW—PHYSICIAN—DECISION OF INDUSTRIAL BOARD- 
 
 REVIEW BY SUPREME COURT CIRCUIT COURT TO RENDER 
 
 JUDGMENT REVIEW AFTER AWARD ADDRESS TO BE 
 
 FILED.—NOTICE.] Any disputed question of law or fact 
 shall be determined as herein provided. 
 
 (a) It shall be the duty of the Industrial Com¬ 
 mission upon notification that the parties have failed 
 to reach an agreement, to designate an arbitrator: 
 Provided, that if the compensation claimed is for a 
 partial permanent or total permanent incapacity or 
 for death, then the dispute may, at the election of 
 either party, be determined by a committee of arbi¬ 
 tration, which election for determination by a com¬ 
 mittee shall be made by petitioner filing with the Com¬ 
 mission his election .in writing with his petition or 
 
152 
 
 by the other party filing with the Commission his 
 election in writing within five days of notice to him 
 of the filing of the petition, and thereupon it shall be 
 the duty of the Industrial Commission, upon either of ^ 
 the parties having filed their election for a committee 
 of arbitration as above provided, to notify both par¬ 
 ties to appoint their respective representatives on the 
 committee of arbitration. The Commission shall 
 designate an arbitrator to act as chairman, and if 
 either party fails to appoint its member on the com-- 
 mittee within seven days after notification as above 
 provided, the Commission shall appoint a person to 
 fill the vacancy and notify the parties to that effect. 
 
 The party filing his election for a committee of arbi¬ 
 tration shall with his election deposit with the Com¬ 
 mission the sum of twenty dollars, to be paid by the 
 Commission to the arbitrators selected by the parties 
 as compensation for their services as arbitrators, and 
 upon a failure to deposit as aforesaid, the election 
 shall be void and the determination shall be by an 
 arbitrator designated by the Commission. The mem¬ 
 bers of the committee of arbitration appointed by 
 either of the parties or one appointed by the Com¬ 
 mission to fill a vacancy by reason of the failure of 
 one of the parties to appoint, shall not be a member 
 of the Commission or an employee thereof. 
 
 (b) The arbitrator or committee of arbitration 
 shall make such inquiries and investigations as he or 
 they shall deem necessary, and may examine and in¬ 
 spect all books, papers, records, places, or premises 
 relating to the questions in dispute, and hear such 
 proper evidence as the parties may submit. The hear¬ 
 ings before the arbitrator or committee of arbitration 
 shall be held in the vicinity where the injury oc¬ 
 curred, after ten days’ notice of the time and place of 
 such hearing shall have been given to each of the 
 parties or their attorneys of record. The decision of 
 the arbitrator or committee of arbitration shall be 
 filed with the Industrial Commission, which Commis- 
 
153 
 
 Sion shall immediately send to each party or his at¬ 
 torney a copy of such decision, toj^ether with a noti- 
 lication of the time when it was filed, and unless a 
 petition for a review is filed by either party within 
 fifteen days after the receipt hy said party of the copy 
 of said decision and notification of time when filed, 
 and unless such party petitioning for a review shall 
 within twenty days after the receipt by him of the 
 copy of said decision, file with the Commission either 
 an agreed statement of the facts appearing upon the 
 hearing before the arbitrator or committee of arbitra¬ 
 tion, or if such party shall so elect, a correct steno¬ 
 graphic report of the proceedings at such hearings, 
 then the decision shall become the decision of the 
 Industrial Commission and in the absence of fraud 
 shall be conclusive: Provided, that such Industrial 
 Commission may for sufficient cause shown grant fur¬ 
 ther time, not exceeding thirty days, in which to peti¬ 
 tion for such review or to file such agreed statement 
 or stenographic report. Such agreed statement of facts 
 or correct stenographic report, as the case may be, 
 shall be authenticated l)y the signatures of the par¬ 
 ties or their attorneys and in the event they do not 
 agree as to the correctness of the stenographic report 
 it shall be authenticated by the signature of the 
 arbitrator designated by the Commission. 
 
 (c) The Industrial Commission may appoint, at 
 its own expense, a duly qualified, impartial physician 
 to examine the injured employee and report to the 
 Commission. The fee for this service shall not exceed 
 five dollars and traveling expenses, but the Commis¬ 
 sion may allow additional reasonable amounts in 
 extraordinary cases. The fees and the payment 
 thereof of all attorneys and physicians for services 
 authorized by the Commission under this Act shall, 
 upon request of either the employer or the employee 
 or the beneficiary affected, be subject to the review 
 and decision of the Industrial Commission. 
 
 (d) If any employee shall persist in insanitary or 
 
154 
 
 injurious practices which tend to either imperil or 
 retard his recovery or shall refuse to submit to such 
 medical or surgical treatment as is reasonably essen¬ 
 tial to promote his recovery, the Commission may, in 
 its discretion, reduce or suspend the compensation of 
 any such injured employee. 
 
 (e) If a petition for review and agreed state¬ 
 ment of facts or stenographic report is filed, as pro¬ 
 vided herein, the Industrial Commission shall 
 promptly review the decision of the arbitrator or 
 committee of arbitration and all questions of law or 
 fact which appear from the said statement of facts 
 or stenographic report, and such additional evidence 
 as the parties may submit. After such hearing upon 
 review, the Commission shall file in its office its 
 decision thereon, and shall immediately send to each 
 party or his attorney a copy of such decision and a 
 notification of the time when it was fied. 
 
 Such review and hearing may be held in its office 
 or elsewhere as the Commission may deem advisable: 
 Provided, that the taking of testimony on such hear¬ 
 ing may be had ’ before any member of the Commis¬ 
 sion and in the event either of the parties may desire 
 an argument before others of the Commission such 
 argument may be had upon written demand therefor 
 filed with the Commission within five days after the 
 commencement of such taking of testimony, in which 
 event such argument shall be had before not less than 
 a majority of the Commission:: Provided, that the 
 Commission shall give ten days’ notice to the parties 
 or their attorneys of the time and place of such tak¬ 
 ing of testimony and of such argument. 
 
 In any case the Commission in its decision may 
 in its discretion find specially upon any question or 
 questions of law or fact which shall be submitted in 
 writing by either party, whether ultimate or other¬ 
 wise. Any party may, within twenty days after re¬ 
 ceipt of notice of the Commission’s decision, or within 
 such further time, not exceeding thirty days, as the 
 
155 
 
 Commission may grant, file with the Commission 
 either an agreed statement of the facts appearing 
 upon the hearing, or, if such party shall so elect a 
 correct stenographic report of the additional proceed¬ 
 ings presented before the Commission, in which report 
 the party may embody a correct statement of such 
 other proceedings in the case as such party may de¬ 
 sire to have reviewed such statement of facts or 
 stenographic report to be authenticated by the signa¬ 
 tures of the parties or their attorneys, and in the 
 event that they do not agree, then the authentication 
 of such stenographic report shall be by the signature 
 of any member of the Commission. The applications 
 for adjustment of claim and other documents in the 
 nature of pleadings filed by either party, together 
 with the decisions of the arbitrator and of the Indus¬ 
 trial Commission and the statement of facts or steno¬ 
 graphic reports hereinbefore provided for in para¬ 
 graphs (b) and (c) shall be the record of the pro¬ 
 ceedings of said Commission, and shall be subject to 
 review as hereinafter provided. 
 
 (f) The decision of the Industrial Commission, 
 acting within its powers, according to the provisions 
 of paragraph (e) of this section shall, in the absence 
 of fraud, be conclusive, unless reviewed as in this par¬ 
 agraph hereinafter provided. 
 
 (1) The Circuit Court of the county where any 
 of the parties defendant may be found shall by writ 
 of certiorari to the Industrial Commission have 
 power to review all questions of law presented by 
 such record, except such as arise in a proceeding in 
 which under paragraph (b) of this section a decision 
 of the arbitrator or committee of arbitration has be¬ 
 come the decision of the Industrial Commission. Such 
 writ shall be issued by the Clerk of such court upon 
 praecipe. Service upon any member of the Industrial 
 Commission or the secretary thereof shall be service 
 on the Commission and service upon other parties 
 interested shall be by scire facias, or service may be 
 
156 
 
 made upon said Commission and other parties in in¬ 
 terest by mailing notice of the commencement of the 
 proceedings and the return day of the writ to the 
 office of said Commission and the last known place of 
 residence of the other parties in interest at least ten 
 days before the return day of said writ. Such suit by 
 writ of certiorari shall be commenced within twenty 
 days of the receipt of notice of the decision of the 
 Commission. 
 
 The Industrial Commission shall not be required 
 to certify the record of their proceedings to the Cir¬ 
 cuit Court, unless the party commencing the proceed¬ 
 ings for review in the Circuit Court, as above pro¬ 
 vided, shall pay to the Commission the sum of five 
 cents per one hundred words of testimony taken be¬ 
 fore said Commission and three cents per one hun¬ 
 dred words of all other matters contained in such 
 record. 
 
 (2) No such writ of certiorari shall issue unless 
 the one against whom the Industrial Commission shall 
 have rendered an award for the payment of money 
 shall upon the filing of his praecipe for such writ file 
 with the clerk of said court a bond conditioned that 
 if he shall not successfully prosecute said writ, he will 
 pay the said award, and the costs of the proceedings 
 in said court. The amount of the bond shall be fixed 
 by any member of the Industrial Commission and the 
 surety or sureties on said bond shall be approved by 
 the clerk of said court. 
 
 The court may confirm or set aside the decision 
 of the Industrial Commission. If the decision is set 
 aside and the facts found in the proceedings before 
 the Commission are sufficient, the court may enter 
 such decision as is justified by law, or may remand 
 the cause to the Industrial Commission for further 
 proceedings, and may state the questions requiring 
 further hearing, and give such other instructions as 
 may be proper. 
 
157 
 
 Judgments and orders of the Circuit Court under 
 this Act shall be reviewed only by the Supreme Court 
 upon a writ of error which the Supreme Court in its 
 discretion may order to issue, if applied for not later 
 than the second day of the first term of the Supreme 
 Court following the rendition of the Circuit Court 
 judgment or order sought to be reviewed, provided 
 that if the first day of said term is less than thirty 
 days from the rendition of said judgment or order, 
 then application for said writ of error maj" be made 
 not later than the second day of the second term fol¬ 
 lowing the rendition of said judgment or order. 
 
 The wu-it of , error wiien issued shall operate as a 
 supersedeas. * 
 
 The bond filed with the praecipe for the wuit of 
 certiorari as provided in this paragraph shall oper¬ 
 ate as a stay of the judgment or order of the Circuit 
 Court until the time shall have passed within wiiich 
 an application for a writ of error can be made, and 
 until the Supreme Court has acted upon the applica¬ 
 tion for a writ of error, if such application is made. 
 
 The decision of a majority of the members of a 
 committee of arbitration or of the Industrial Com¬ 
 mission shall be considered the decision of such com¬ 
 mittee or Commission, respectively. 
 
 (g) Either party may present a certified copy of 
 the decision of the Industrial Commission, when no 
 proceedings for review’ thereof have been taken, or of 
 the decision of such arbitrator or committee or arbi¬ 
 tration w’hen no claim for review is made, or of the 
 decision of the Industrial Commission after hearing 
 upon review’, providing for the payment of compensa¬ 
 tion according to this Act, to the Circuit Court of the 
 county in w’hich such accident occurred or either of 
 the parties are residents, w’hereupon said court shall 
 render a judgment in accordance therew ith; and in 
 case w’here the employer does not institute proceedings 
 for review of the decision of the Industrial Commis¬ 
 sion and refuses to pay compensation according to the 
 
 1 ' 
 
 A 
 
 } 
 
158 
 
 award upon which such judgment is entered, the 
 court shall, in entering judgment thereon, tax as costs 
 against him the reasonable costs and attorney fees in 
 the arbitration proceedings and in the court entering 
 the judgment, for the person in whose favor the judg¬ 
 ment is entered, which judgment and costs, taxed as 
 herein provided shall, until and unless set aside, have 
 the same effect as though duly rendered in an action 
 duly tried and determined by said court, and shall, 
 with like effect, be entered and docketed. The Circuit 
 Court shall have power, at any time, upon application, 
 to make any such judgment conform to any modifica¬ 
 tion required by any subsequent decision of the Su¬ 
 preme Court upon appeal, or as the result of any sub¬ 
 sequent proceedings for review, as provided in this 
 Act. 
 
 Judgment shall not be entered until fifteen days’ 
 notice of the time and place of the application for the 
 entry of judgment shall be served upon the employer 
 by filing such notice with the Industrial Commission, 
 which Commission shall, in case it has on file the ad¬ 
 dress of the employer or the name and address of its 
 agent, upon whom notices may be served, immediately 
 send a copy of the notice to the employer or such 
 designated agent; and no judgment shall be entered 
 in the event the employer shall file with the said Com¬ 
 mission its bond, with good and sufiicient surety in 
 double the amount of the award, conditioned upon 
 the payment of said award in the event the said em¬ 
 ployer shall fail to prosecute with effect proceedings 
 for review of the decision or the said decision, upon 
 review, shall be affirmed. 
 
 (h) An agreement or award under this Act, pro¬ 
 viding for compensation in installments, may at any 
 time within eighteen months after such agreement or 
 award be reviewed by the Industrial Commission at 
 the request of either the employer or the employee, 
 on the ground that the disability of the employee has 
 subsequently recurred, increased, diminished or end- 
 
159 
 
 Gcl ; and on such review, compensation payments may 
 he re-established, increased, diminished or ended: 
 Provided, that the Commission shall give fifteen days’ 
 notice to the parties of the hearing for review: And, 
 provided, further, any employee, upon any petition for 
 such review being filed by the employer, shall be 
 entitled to one day’s notice for each one hundred miles 
 necessary to be traveled by him in attending the 
 hearing of the Commission upon said petition and 
 three days in addition thereto, and such employee, 
 shall, at the discretion of the Commission, also be 
 entitled to five cents per mile, necessarily traveled by 
 him in attending such hearing not to exceed a dis¬ 
 tance of 300 miles, to be taxed by the Commission as 
 costs and deposited with the petition of the employer. 
 
 (i) Each party, upon taking any proceedings or 
 steps whatsoever before any arbitrator, committee 
 of arbitration. Industrial Commission or court, shall 
 file with the Industrial Commission his address, or 
 the name and address of an agent upon whom all 
 notices to be given to such party shall be served, 
 either personally or by registered mail addressed to 
 such party or agent at the last address so filed with 
 the Industrial Commission: Provided, that in the 
 event such party has not filed his address, or the 
 name and address of an agent, as above provided, 
 service of any notice may be had by filing such notice 
 with the Industrial Commission. 
 
 (j) Whenever in any proceeding testimony has 
 been taken or a final decision has been rendered, and 
 after the taking of such testimony, or after such de¬ 
 cision has become final, the injured employee dies, 
 then in any subsequent proceeding brought by the 
 personal representative or beneficiaries of the de¬ 
 ceased employee, such testimony in the former pro¬ 
 ceeding may be introduced with the same force and 
 effect as though the witness having so testified were 
 present in person in such subsequent proceeding and 
 such final decision, if any, shall be taken as a final 
 
160 
 
 adjudication of any of the issues which are the same 
 in both proceedings. 
 
 (k) In any case where there has been any un¬ 
 reasonable or vexatious delay of payment or inten¬ 
 tional underpayment of compensation, or proceedings 
 have been instituted or carried on by the one liable 
 to pay the compensation, which do not present a real 
 controversy, but are merely frivolous or for delay, 
 then the Commission may award compensation ad¬ 
 ditional to that otherwise payable under this Act 
 equal to fifty percentum of the amount payable at the 
 time of such award. (Amended by Act approved 
 June 28, 1919.) 
 
 § 20. Industrial board to report to governor.] 
 The Industrial Board shall report in writing to the 
 Governor on the 30th day of June, annually, the de¬ 
 tails and results of its administration of this Act, in 
 accordance with the terms of this Act, and may pre¬ 
 pare and issue such special bulletins and reports from 
 time to time as in the opinion of the board seems ad¬ 
 visable. 
 
 § 21. Award not subject to lien—lien when 
 EMPLOYER INSOL^^NT—DEATH.] No payment, claim, 
 award or decision under this Act shall be assignable 
 or subject to any lien, attachment or garnishment, or 
 be held liable in any way for any lien, debt, penalty 
 or damages. A decision or award of the Industrial 
 Commission against an employer for compensation 
 under this Act, or a written agreement by an em¬ 
 ployer to pay such compensation shall, upon the filing 
 of a certified copy of the decision or said agreement, 
 as the case may be, with the Recorder of Deeds of the 
 County, constitute a lien upon all property of the em¬ 
 ployer within said county, paramount to all other 
 claims or liens, except mortgages, trust deeds, or for 
 wages or taxes, and such liens may be enforced in the 
 manner pro^dded for the foreclosure of mortgages 
 under the laws of this State. Any right to receive 
 compensation hereunder shall be extinguished by the 
 
IGl 
 
 death of the person or persons entitled thereto, sub¬ 
 ject to the provisions of this Act relative to compensa¬ 
 tion for death received in the course of employment: 
 l*r()vi(Jc<J, that upon the death of a beneficiary, who is 
 receivinjjj compensation provided for in section 7, leav- 
 iiii? surviving? a parent, sister or brother of the de¬ 
 ceased employee, at the time of his death dependent 
 upon him for support, who were receiving; from such 
 heneficiary a contrihution to support, then that pro¬ 
 portion of the compensation of the beneficiary which 
 would have been paid but for the death of the bene- 
 fi(*iary, but in no event exceeding said unpaid com¬ 
 pensation, which the contribution of the heneficiary to 
 the dependent’s support within one year prior to the 
 death of the beneficiary bears to the compensation of 
 the beneficiary within that year, shall be continued 
 for the benefit of such dependents, notwithstanding 
 the death of the heneficiary. (Amended by Act ap¬ 
 proved June 2S, 11)19.) 
 
 § 22. Contract within seven days after injury 
 presu:med fraudulent.] Any contract or agreement 
 made by any employer or his agent or attorney with 
 any employee or any other beneficiary of any claim 
 under the provisions of this Act within seven daj^s 
 after the injury shall be presumed to be fraudulent. 
 
 § 2o. Waiver of provisions :must be approved by 
 INDUSTRIAL BOARD.] No employee, personal represent¬ 
 ative, or beneficiary shall have power to waive any of 
 the provisions of this Act in regard to the amount of 
 compensation which may he payable to such em¬ 
 ployee, personal representative or heneficiary here¬ 
 under except after approval by the Industrial Board. 
 
 § 24. Notice of accident.] No proceedings for 
 compensation under this Act shall be maintained un¬ 
 less notice of the accident has been given to the em¬ 
 ployer as soon as practicable, but not later than 30 
 days after the accident. In case of mental incapacity 
 of the employee, notice must be given within six 
 
162 
 
 pionths after such accident. No defect or inaccuracy 
 of such notice shall be a bar to the maintenance of 
 proceedings by arbitration or otherwise by the em¬ 
 ployee, unless the employer proves that he is unduly 
 prejudiced in such proceedings by such defect or inac¬ 
 curacy. Notice of the accident shall state the name 
 and address of the employee injured, the approximate 
 date and place of the accident, if known, and in 
 simple language the cause thereof; which notice may 
 be served personally or by registered mail, addressed 
 to the employer at his last known residence or place 
 of business: Provided, that the failure on the part of 
 any person entitled to such compensation to give such 
 notice shall not relieve the employer from his liability 
 for such compensation, when the facts and circum¬ 
 stances of such accident are known to such employer, 
 his agent or vice principal in the enterprise. No pro¬ 
 ceedings for compensation under this Act shall be 
 maintained unless claim for compensation has been 
 made within six months after the accident, or in the 
 event that payments have been made under the pro¬ 
 visions of this Act unless written claim for compensa¬ 
 tion has been made within six months after such pay¬ 
 ments have ceased and a receipt therefor or a state¬ 
 ment of the amount of compensation paid shall have 
 been filed with the Commission: Provided, that no 
 employee who after the accident returns to the em¬ 
 ployment of the employer in whose services he was 
 injured shall be barred for failure to make such claim 
 if an application for adjustment of such claim is filed 
 with the Industrial Commission within eighteen 
 months after he returns to such employment and the 
 said Commission shall give notice to the employer of 
 tiie filing of such application in the manner provided 
 in this Act. (Amended by Act approved June 28, 
 1019.) 
 
 § 25. How EMPLOYER MAY BE RELIE^^D OF LIABIL¬ 
 ITY FOR COMPENSATION.] Aliy employer against whom 
 liability may exist for compensation under this Act, 
 
163 
 
 muy, with the approval of the Industrial Board, 5- 
 i*elieved therefrom by: r, i 
 
 (a) Depositing? the commuted value of the totP ( 
 unpaid compensation for which such liability exist’ ) 
 computed at three per centum per annum in the sam‘ ( 
 manner as provided in section 0, with the State Treas 
 urer, or county treasurer in the county where th' 
 accident happened, or with any State or Nationa 
 hank or trust company doing business in this State 
 or in some other suitable depository approved by the 
 Industrial Board: ]*r()vidc(l, that any such depository 
 to which such compensation may be paid shall pay 
 the same out in installments as in this Act provided, 
 unless such sum is ordered paid in, and is commuted 
 to, a lump sum payment in accordance with the pro¬ 
 visions of this Act. 
 
 (b) By the purchase of an annuity, in an amount 
 of compensation due or computed, under this Act 
 within the limitation provided by law, in any insur¬ 
 ance company granting annuities and licensed or per¬ 
 mitted to do business in this State, which may be des¬ 
 ignated by the employer, or the Industrial Board. 
 
 § 26. Provision to be made by employer electing 
 
 TO PAY compensation-APPROVAL OF INDUSTRIAL BOARD 
 
 -WHEN PROVISION NOT MADE OR NOT APPROVED-INSUR¬ 
 ANCE LIABILITY—FAILURE TO COMPLY.] (a) Any em¬ 
 ployer who shall come within the provisions of section 
 3 of this Act, and any other employer who shall elect 
 to provide and pay the compensation provided for in 
 this Act shall: 
 
 (1) File with the Commission a sworn statement 
 showing his financial ability to pay the compensation 
 provided for in this Act, or 
 
 (2) Furnish security, indemnity or a bond guar¬ 
 anteeing the payment by the employer of the compen¬ 
 sation provided for in this Act, or 
 
 (3) Insure to a reasonable amount his liability 
 to pay such compensation in some corporation oi;^ 
 
164 
 
 ■ganization authorized, licensed or permitted to do 
 ■ch insurance business in this State, or . 
 
 W (4) Make some other provisions for the securing 
 If the payment of compensation provided for in this 
 let, and 
 
 I (5) Upon becoming subject to this Act and 
 ■hereafter as often as the Commission may in writing 
 llemand, file with the Commission in form prescribed 
 l)y it evidence of his compliance with the provisions 
 pf this paragraph. 
 
 (b) The sworn statement of financial ability, or 
 security, indemnity or bond, or amount of insurance, 
 or other provisions, filed, furnished, carried, or made 
 by the employer, as the case may be, shall be subject 
 to the approval of the Commission, upon the approval 
 of which, the Commission shall send to the employer 
 written notice of its approval thereof. The filing with 
 the Commission of evidence of compliance with para¬ 
 graph (a) of this section as therein provided shall 
 constitute such compliance until ten days after writ¬ 
 ten notice to the employer of the disapproval by the 
 Commission. 
 
 (c) Whenever the Industrial Commission shall 
 find that any corporation, company, association, ag¬ 
 gregation of individuals, or other insurer affecting 
 workmen’s compensation insurance in this State shall 
 be insolvent, financially unsound, or unable to fully 
 meet all payments and liabilities assumed or to be 
 assumed for compensation insurance in this State, or 
 shall practice a policy of delay or unfairness toward 
 employees in the adjustment, settlement, or payment 
 of benefits due such employees, the said Industrial 
 Com*missiou may after reasonable notice and hearing 
 order and direct that such corporation, company, as¬ 
 sociation, aggregation of individuals, or insurer, shall 
 from and after a date fixed in such order discontinue 
 the writing of any such workmen's compensation in¬ 
 surance in this State. Subject to such modification of 
 ^said order as the Commission may later make on re- 
 
105 
 
 view of said order, as herein provided, it shall there¬ 
 upon he unlawful for any such corporation, comi)any, 
 association, aj?j?rej?ation of individuals, or insurer to 
 (‘ftect any workmen’s compensation insurance in this 
 State. Any such order made by said Industrial Com¬ 
 mission shall he subject to review by the courts, as in 
 the case of other orders of said Industrial Commis¬ 
 sion, provided that upon said review the Circuit Court 
 shall have power to review all (piestions of fact as 
 well as of law. 
 
 (d) The failure or neglect of an employer to com¬ 
 ply with the provisions of paragraph (a) of this sec¬ 
 tion shall be deemed a misdemeanor punishable by a 
 tine e(iual to ten cents per each employee of such em¬ 
 ployer, at the time of such failure or neglect, but not 
 less than one dollar nor more than tifty dollars, for 
 each day of such refusal or neglect until the same 
 ceases. Each day of such refusal or neglect shall con¬ 
 stitute a separate offense. (Amended by Act ap¬ 
 proved June 28, 1919.) 
 
 § 27. Not affect continuance of any existing 
 
 INSURANCE, ETC.-NOT PREVENT EMPLOYER FROM IN¬ 
 SURING-EMPLOYEE MAY INSURE FOR ADDITIONAL BENE¬ 
 
 FITS.] (a) This Act shall not affect or disturb the 
 continuance of any existing insurance, mutual aid, 
 benefit or relief association or department, whether 
 maintained in whole or in part by the employer or 
 whether maintained by the employees, the payment of 
 benefits of such association or department being 
 guaranteed by the employer or by some person, firm 
 or corporation for him: Provided, the employer con¬ 
 tributes to such association or department an amount 
 not less than the full compensation herein provided, 
 exclusive of the cost of the maintenance of such 
 association or department and without any expense to 
 the employee. This Act shall not prevent the organ¬ 
 ization and maintaining under the insurance laws of 
 this State of any benefit or insurance company for 
 the purpose of insuring against the compensation pro- 
 
166 
 
 vided for in this Act, the expense of which is main¬ 
 tained hy the employer. This Act shall not prevent- 
 the organization or maintaining under the insurance 
 laws of this State of any voluntary mutual aid. 
 henetit or relief association among employees for the 
 payment of additional accident or sick benefits. 
 
 (b) No existing insurance, mutual aid, benefit or 
 relief association or department shall, by reason of 
 anything herein contained be authorized to discontinue 
 its operation without first discharging its obligations 
 to any and all persons carrying insurance in the same 
 or entitled to relief or benefits therein. 
 
 (c) Any contract, oral, written or implied, of em¬ 
 ployment providing for relief benefit, or insurance or 
 any other device whereby the employee is required to 
 pay any premium or premiums for insurance against 
 the compensation provided for in this Act shall be null 
 and void, and any employer withholding from the 
 wages of any employee any amount for the purpose 
 of paying any such premium shall be guilty of a mis¬ 
 demeanor and punishable by a fine of not less than 
 ten dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or 
 imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six 
 mojiths, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 § 28. Ix CASE OF employer’s insolvency subro- 
 
 CATED TO HIS RIGHTS AGAINST ANY INSURANCE COM¬ 
 PANY.] In the event the employer does not pay the 
 compensation for which he is liable, then an insur¬ 
 ance company, association or insurer which may have 
 insured such employer against such liability shall be¬ 
 come primarily liable to pay to the employee, his per¬ 
 sonal representative or beneficiary the compensation 
 reciuired by the provisions of this Act to be paid by 
 such employer. The insurance carrier may be made 
 a party to the proceedings to which the employer is a 
 party and an award may be entered jointly against 
 the employer and the insurance carrier. (Amended 
 ])y Act approval June 28, 1919.) 
 
 29. Where injury caused under circumstances 
 
167 
 
 crp:ating a legal liability in some person other 
 THAN THE EM'jPLOYER.] Where ail injury or death for 
 uiiieli compensation is payable by the employer under 
 this Act, was not proximately caused by the negli¬ 
 gence of the employer or his employees, and was 
 caused under circumstances creating a legal liability 
 for damages in some person other than the employer 
 to pay damages, such other person having also elected 
 to be bound by this Act, or being bound thereby under 
 section three (8) of this Act, then the right of the 
 employee or personal representative to recover against 
 such other person shall be subrogated to his employer 
 and such employer maj’ bring legal proceedings 
 against such other person to recover the damages sus¬ 
 tained in an amount not exceeding the aggregate 
 amount of compensation payable under this Act, by 
 reason of the injury or death of such employee. 
 Where the injury or death for which compensation is 
 payable under this Act, was not proximately caused 
 by the negligence of the employer or his employees 
 and was caused under circumstances creating a legal 
 liability for damages on the part of some person other 
 than the employer to pay damages, such other person 
 having elected not to be .bound by this Act, then legal 
 proceedings may be taken against such other person 
 to recover damages notwithstanding such employer's 
 payment of or liability to pay compensation under 
 this Act, but in such case if the action against such 
 other person is brought by the injured employee or his 
 personal representative and judgment is ol)tained and 
 paid, or settlement is made with such other person, 
 either with or without suit, then from the amount 
 received by such employee or personal representative 
 there shall be paid to the employer the amount of 
 compensation paid or to be paid by him to such em¬ 
 ployee or his personal representative: Provided, that 
 if the injured employee or his personal representative 
 shall agree to receive compensation from the employer 
 
 / or to institute proceedings to recover the same or 
 
 l A 
 
168 
 
 accept from the employer any payment on account of 
 such compensation, such employer shall be subrogated 
 to all the rights of such employee or personal repre¬ 
 sentative and may maintain, or in case an action has 
 already been instituted, may continue an action either 
 hi the name of the employee or personal representa¬ 
 tive or in his own name against such other person for 
 
 the recovery of damages to which but for this section 
 the said employee or personal representative would 
 he entitled, but such employer shall nevertheless pay 
 over to the injured employee or personal representa¬ 
 tive, all sums collected from such other person by 
 judgment or otherwise in excess of the amount of 
 such compensation paid or to be paid under this Act, 
 and all costs, attorneys’ fees and reasonable expenses 
 incurred by such employer in making such collection 
 and enforcing such liability. (Amended by Act ap¬ 
 proved June 25, 1917.) 
 
 § 30. Report of accidext. etc., by employer to 
 ixDUSTRiAL BOARD.] It Shall be the dutv of everv em- 
 ployer within the provisions of this Act to send to che 
 Industrial Board in writing an immediate report of 
 all accidental injuries arising out of or in the course 
 of the employment and resulting in death; it shall 
 also be the duty of every such employer to report be¬ 
 tween the 15th and the 25th of each month to the In¬ 
 dustrial Board all accidental injuries for which com¬ 
 pensation has been paid under this Act, which injuries 
 entail a loss to the employee of more than one week's 
 time, and in case the injurj- results in permanent dis- 
 a])i!ity, a further report shall l)e made as soon as it is 
 determined that such permanent disability has re¬ 
 sulted or will result from such injury. All reports 
 shall state the date of the injury, including the time 
 of day or night, the nature of the employer’s business, 
 the name, address, the age, sex, conjugal condition of 
 the injured person, the specific occupation . of the in¬ 
 jured person, the direct cause of the injury and the 
 nature of the accident, the character of the injury, 
 
160 
 
 the of disability, and, in ease of death, the 
 
 length of disability before death, the wages of the in¬ 
 jured person, whether compensation has been paid to 
 the injured person, or to his legal representatives or 
 his heirs or next of kin, the amount of compensation 
 paid, the amount paid for physicians’, surgeons, and 
 hospital hills, and by whom paid, and the amount 
 paid for funeral or burial expenses, if known. The 
 making of reports as provided herein shall release the 
 employer covered by the provisions of this Act from 
 making such reports to any other officer of the State. 
 
 § 81. Who inclui)p:i) in tkrm “employer” — con¬ 
 tracting WITH OTHERS TO DO THE WORK.] Aliy OllG 
 engaging in any business or enterprise referred to in 
 sub-sections 1 and 2 of section 8 of this Act who 
 undertake to do any work enumerated therein, shall 
 he liable to pay compensation to his own immediate 
 employees in accordance with the provisions of this 
 Act, and in addition' thereto if he directlj" or in¬ 
 directly engage any contractor whether principal or 
 sub-contractor to do any such work, he shall be liable 
 to pay compensation to the employees of any such con¬ 
 tractor or sub-contractor unless such contractor or 
 sub-contractor shall have insured, in any company or 
 association authorized under the laws of this State to 
 insure the liability to pay compensation under this 
 Act, or guaranteed his liability to pay such compensa¬ 
 tion. 
 
 In the event any such person shall pay compen¬ 
 sation under this section he mav recover the amount 
 thereof from the contractor or sub-contractor, if any, 
 and in the event the contractor shall pay compensa¬ 
 tion under this section he may recover the amount 
 thereof from the sub-contractor, if any. 
 
 This section shall not apply in any case where the 
 accident occurs elsewhere than on, in or about the im¬ 
 mediate premises on which the principal has con¬ 
 tracted that the work shall be done. (Amended by 
 Act approved June 28, 1919.) 
 
170 
 
 § 32. Right of action accruing before taking 
 
 EFFECT OF THIS ACT—IF THIS ACT REPEALED, ETC.— 
 CLAIM UNDER PREVIOUS ACT, HOW ADJUSTED.] If any Of 
 
 the provisions of this Act providing for compensation 
 for injuries to or death of employees shall be repealed 
 or adjudged invalid or unconstitutional, the period 
 intervening between the occurrence of any injury or 
 death and such repeal or final adjudication of invalid¬ 
 ity, shall not be computed as a part of the time 
 limited by law for the commencement of any action 
 relating to such injury or death, but the amount of 
 any compensation which may have been paid for any 
 such injury shall be deducted from any judgment for 
 damages recovered on account of such injury. Any 
 claim, disagreement or controversy existing or arising 
 under “An Act to promote the general welfare of the 
 people of this State, by providing compensation for 
 accidental injuries or death suffered in the course of 
 employment,” approved June 10, 1911, in force May 1, 
 1912, shall be adjusted in accordance with the pro¬ 
 visions of said Act, notwithstanding the repeal 
 thereof, or may by agreement of the parties be ad¬ 
 justed in accordance with the method of procedure 
 provided in this Act for the adjustment of differences, 
 jurisdiction to adjust such differences so submitted by 
 the parties being hereby conferred upon the Industrial 
 Board or committee of arbitration provided for in this 
 Act. (Amended by Act approved June 25, 1917.) 
 
 § 33. Penalties.] Any wilful neglect, refusal or 
 failure to do the things required to be done by any 
 section, clause, or provision of this Act, on the part 
 of the person herein required to do them, or any 
 violation of any of the provisions or requirements 
 hereof, or any attempt to obstruct or interfere with 
 any court officer, or any other person charged with 
 the duty of administering or enforcing the provisions 
 of this Act, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, punish¬ 
 able by a fine of not less than $10.00 nor more than 
 $500.00 at the discretion of the court. 
 
171 
 
 § Name of act.] This Act may be cited as 
 the Workmen’s Compensation Act. (Added by an Act 
 approved June 28, 1915.) 
 
 § 34. Invalidity.] The invalidity of any portion 
 of this Act shall in no way affect the validity of any 
 other portion thereof which can be given effect with¬ 
 out such invalid part. 
 
 § 35. Repeal.] That an Act to promote the gen¬ 
 eral welfare of the State of Illinois by providing com¬ 
 pensation for accidental injuries or death suffered in 
 the course of employment, approved June 10, 1911, in ^ 
 force May 1, 1912, be, and the same is, hereby re- i 
 pealed. / 
 
172 
 
 C 
 
 
 m 
 
 C 
 
 I 
 
 m 
 
 a 
 
 m 
 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 
 
 ^ 3 
 
 =' o 
 
 «W 
 
 4-J ’^-l 
 
 'S 
 
 ^ 3 L- 
 
 CP ^O 
 
 ^ o 
 «w ^ O 
 
 O 
 
 S 
 
 ^ rr*. rT' 
 
 „. k-.x 
 
 4 ; — tH 
 
 ^l- 
 
 o 
 
 >i 
 
 c 
 
 0 ^ 
 
 
 
 p-^ 'w 
 
 '0 
 
 
 ^ i' 
 C'' ic 
 
 0 
 
 > 
 
 0 
 
 
 c; 
 
 ^ < 
 w 
 
 r'' 
 
 L^ 
 
 -• I- 
 
 'V' 
 
 CP ^ H 
 
 Cl S GO 
 
 ^ L'* 
 
 l-M 
 
 ^ ', flj 
 
 >. 
 
 X 
 /• . 
 
 a; Cl ^ 
 ^1^:2 
 :r‘ 
 
 >. Si 
 
 ^ 0 
 
 
 pM P<H 
 
 0 22 
 
 
 X 
 
 x-s w 
 
 ^ -w 
 
 w 
 
 H 
 
 9^ 'x 
 
 
 a^ w- 
 
 a; 
 
 — 4J 
 
 OP 1 
 
 ► 
 
 *0^ 
 
 U1 
 
 rL'^ 
 
 
 
 PH 
 
 c> 
 
 X 
 
 r 't 
 
 HP 
 
 ^ PH 
 «V 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 O' 
 
 r- 
 
 ' W 
 
 x< 
 
 w 
 
 ^ PH 
 
 tH 
 
 C' 
 
 xW 
 
 < 2 : 
 
 p^ 
 
 C3 
 
 
 
 «H 
 
 K 
 
 P^ 
 
 0 
 
 H 
 
 c 
 
 X ^ 
 
 •-M 
 
 ►> 
 
 0 
 
 pH 
 
 PH 
 
 
 +- 
 
 /-H 
 
 PH 
 
 22 
 
 X 
 
 '0 
 
 c 
 
 2 ^ 
 
 for ; 
 
 X 
 
 9 
 
 pH 
 
 PH^ 
 
 w 
 
 OP 
 - p^ 
 
 V> 
 
 -r 
 
 > tfj 
 
 c o 
 
 :: a) 
 
 'r: i! 
 
 P 
 
 X 
 
 ><< 
 
 <v* 
 
 1 -^ 
 
 p 
 
 
 —< O 
 
 C 4 : 
 
 X -I- 
 
 c 
 
 w 
 
 <u 
 
 Q 
 
 > 
 
 Vh 
 
 (U 
 
 0) 
 
 ( 1 ) 
 
 ^^i25>J>’S5CC 
 £h !> O • —*. 2 4) ■ '^ IC ^ 
 OHHP^fecoc/GWZH 
 
 <u^ 2 
 
 7 years 
 
 and 
 
 —weeks 
 
 329.5296 
 
 330.3417 
 
 331.1534 
 
 331.9647 
 
 332.7755 
 
 333.5858 
 
 334.3957 
 
 335.2051 
 
 336.0140 
 
 336.8225 
 
 6 years 
 
 and 
 
 — weeks 
 
 286.6543 
 
 287.4908 
 
 288.3269 
 
 289.1625 
 
 289.9976 
 
 290.8322 
 
 291.6664 
 
 292.5001 
 
 293.3333 
 
 294.1660 
 
 5 years 
 
 and 
 
 — weeks 
 
 242.4928 
 
 243.3544 
 
 244.2155 
 
 245.0762 
 
 245.9364 
 
 246.7960 
 
 247.6552 
 
 248.5139 
 
 249.3721 
 
 250.2298 
 
 4 years 
 and 
 
 —weeks 
 
 197.0664 
 
 197.8939 
 
 198.7808 
 
 199.6673 
 
 200.5533 
 
 201.4387 
 
 202.3237 
 
 203.2082 
 
 204.0921 
 
 204.9756 
 
 3 years 
 and 
 
 — weeks 
 
 150.1554 
 
 151.0695 
 
 151.9831 
 
 152.8962 
 
 153.8087 
 
 154.7207 
 
 155.6323 
 
 156.5432 
 
 157.4537 
 
 158.3637 
 
 2 years 
 and 
 
 — weeks 
 
 101.8989 
 
 102.8405 
 
 103.7814 
 
 104.7219 
 
 105.6618 
 
 106.6012 
 
 107.5401 
 
 108.4784 
 
 109.4162 
 
 110.3534 
 
 1 year 
 and 
 
 — weeks 
 
 52.1947 
 
 53.1645 
 
 54.1337 
 
 55.1024 
 
 56.0705 
 
 57.0381 
 
 58.0051 
 
 58.9716 
 
 59.9375 
 
 60.9029 
 
 0 years 
 
 0.9994 
 
 1.9983 
 
 2.9966 
 
 3.9943 
 
 4.99kS 
 
 5.9881 
 
 6.8941 
 
 7.9796 
 
 8.9745 
 
 9.9688 
 
 '/•* I 
 ^1 
 
173 
 
 lO’-ifsjoOOt^OOOfN^iOiO 
 oooi/^>-ioofca'f^oo<^*'5oo 
 f0r<)rt<iou-:'0v0t^»^ 00 00 00 
 'O'itCSOoO'O'^CNOOC'O'^ 
 
 C\ O O »-I rN rO rt< t}J 1/5 o’ 
 
 rofOfOf<5r<5ro</5fOfOfOfOf^ 
 
 ^^r^O^'00'^^00'^<Tl 
 
 irOTfiO'O'O'O'C'^ifO’-* 
 
 O' 
 
 JNOOOO'^fNOOO'O'^CN 
 
 r^" 00* 00* O'* o* ■>-<* c^j fN* <r>* •^* ic 
 
 Tt<'^'^'^iOi/5'/>i/5totoi/5 
 
 X 
 
 o 
 
 ic 
 
 
 
 
 IC 
 
 o 
 
 X 
 
 1^1 
 
 X 
 
 o 
 
 tN 
 
 X 
 
 
 o 
 
 rf 
 
 X 
 
 tN 
 
 'C 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 
 l^ 
 
 'C 
 
 o 
 
 ic 
 
 1/5 
 
 -t 
 
 c 
 
 X 
 
 'C 
 
 •t 
 
 tN 
 
 c 
 
 X 
 
 vC 
 
 
 tN 
 
 vd 
 
 'd 
 
 d 
 
 X* 
 
 o’ 
 
 c* 
 
 c* 
 
 
 d 
 
 d 
 
 LO 
 
 lO 
 
 1/5 
 
 1/5 
 
 1/5 
 
 'C 
 
 vC 
 
 vO 
 
 vC 
 
 o 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 X 
 
 f0^rf<ts'0»00'0'?t<'^00000rt<'0'^’0’^t^00 0f<0<^00i00<r)u-, rs>>^ 
 00OT-iCN(NfN»-iOOt^'^CN00'!tOiOC'^XfSTft^«O^^-^>-'COt^'/5'^l 
 0 'f^\ 00 'fSiOOO'-<f< 000 (NrJ<r^O(NiOl^O'-i^'OOO^fOiOt^O'-'tNrfsCOO 
 O'«'OTj<r0^O00'O'^CS'^Or^'O'^csO00t^i/;f<>—iOOOvO'^rj^Ot^i>~, f'O 
 
 T^lCOr^OOO^OO*-'(N<^'^•^‘-OO^^OOOOO^CNfOT^^•<^LcsOl^XXOC^ 
 
 O' O' O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O ^ ^ th 1 —t »-H »— ( ^ ^ »-H fvj rvj 
 
 CSCNCNCNCNeNCSfOXXfOfOXXrOfOfOfOfOXfOXXfOXXXfOXrC^O'^X 
 
 ’-HX»HX»-iO\cs»-i^rr)'0 
 
 t^fOOio^oO'^t^OrN 
 
 X'^Oio»-t'Orsi^fSXfO 
 
 O'OX'OiOXr^OOt^'O 
 
 ’-''-•(NC'i^iO'Or^r^XO 
 
 lOV/JiOi/JiOiCi/JiOiOiOiO 
 
 CSCNfNCNCNCSCSCNfNfNCS 
 
 lOOXXCNr^t^fNrNXX 
 rt<iO'Ot^t^'OiOTj<r'JC''0 
 OOOOXf^XfOXXXfSt^ 
 rtfO'i-iOXl^lO'^tN'—lO 
 
 O ’-H* fN ro* ff) •rj'* lO* 'd t^* X* X* 
 'O'O'O'OO'O'O'OO'O'O 
 fNfSr'lCSCNCNfSCNfSCNr'l 
 
 Tfi/5^XO^XCt^CX 
 
 P0)O‘OC'+OfN'CX'^r'i 
 
 (N'C’-i'OO'^Of'Ol^fN'O 
 
 X'Ow-<r^CNOXl^i/5-^(N 
 
 O'* c* '-'* tN* X* tj<* '^’ id'd t'-* x’ 
 
 vo i-^ r'* 
 
 CSCNC'JCNfNCNfNfSrvir'lfN 
 
 iOOOfOXt>‘t^’-i’-ivOiO 
 
 X’-ifNTjivoiOiOiOTjiXO 
 
 lOTjlCNOX'O^fNOX'O 
 
 Xt^'Oi/JXCN^OOt^'C 
 
 id'd t^* X* O' O* ^ fN tN X* ^* 
 
 CNfNCNtNCNtNtNCNCNfNfN 
 
 oxfotNi^'O^^ioioo 
 
 r'-rfr-it^CNt^tN'OOcNi/: 
 
 X'^0'C''^i’-iO''OtO»-iX 
 
 lOrftN^OOt^'OiO'^CN 
 
 id'd t^* 00 o* O' o '-<* (N (d 
 
 ^^^^^^(Nl(N(NtSCN 
 
 (NCNCNMtNCNCSCNCNfSCN 
 
 OX'^OO'^'^OOi /5 1/5 
 'Od'O'OOOX'C’tfNO 
 lOfNOOXOi'-Tf'^X'^ 
 ’“lOXr^'OiOXfN^O'X 
 
 id'd'd td X* O'* c* ^ tN* tN* d 
 
 tNfNtNfNtNfNtritOf'OXX 
 
 CNCNfNtNtNtNfNCNCNCNC^l 
 
 »-iO'^Xr^iOOt^OX^O'’-' 0 '^XOt^OOt^rt<i/ 5 -HtsoOOitO'CtNtNXX 
 XCNOXiO<NX'^ 0 '^OfN'OX^r'irt<rJirJ<'«^rr)tNCXiO—<r^XXXt^Ct^ 
 t^XOO' 0 ’-HT-tCNXXfO''tTti^lOlOlOlOlOiOiOl/ 5 i/;^TfTj<POXCNtN^^C 
 fN^OOOXt^'OiO'itXfN^O'OXr^'OiO'^fOfN^OOXt^'CiO^tOtN^ 
 
 0 'OT-ir->ifNX^i/>'Ot^XOO’-H'<-HCNX'^iO'Ot^Xo''_JO'^r'i'^'T'ir;'cr^ot 
 lO'O'O'O'O'O'O'O'O'O'O'Ot^i^r't^t^t^r^r^t^t^r^XXXXXXXXXX 
 
 tH tH tH 
 
 ■'-iX0'-ir^XXXXt^^C'^fNi0(Ni0fN^0tNXX'^'^<00'^xr^'C0X 
 
 0 'OfNr^»-iiOOCN^'CXO'OOXt^i/:XOr^tDXXXfNiOX>'-iXTt<i/ 5 iOir 
 
 0'CN'OOX'OOX'OOCNiOX'<-i'^t^CX'OX^tO'OX’-iXi/)XOcN'^'CX 
 
 CNCN^-HOOOXXt^'O'OiOrJirtXCNCN'^OOOXt^O'Ci/'.'^XtOCN^-'CO 
 
 fiCSXTjiiOiO'Ot^XOO’-HfsX'^iO'Ot^XXO'O’-itNXTj'i/'.'Cr^XOCO 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^,-(CVjCvqtSfSCNCNCNfNCNtNCNXXXXXXt' 0 <DtOf^TfTt< 
 
 t^Ot^OiO'0^'>-H'Oi>~. X'OO'OX'^OOOi/'-'^X'OO'OOiO'CCNPCXXiN 
 t^CNlCX'*-iXlO' 0 ' 0 'Ol/ 5 '^tNOl^'^ 0 ' 0 '—ii/ 5 O(Ni 0 r^OO’—Ii—I'*—lOXO^ 
 'OXOiOCNX^O'CcNXTj'0'0^t^XXTjiO''^Oir:Oi/;-^0^'C*-ii/:Ci/5 
 XXt^t^t^’O'O'OiOiC'^Tt'rtXXCNtN^i-iOCOOOXXt^t^'COiOiO'^ 
 
 d CN td d id'd d X* O' o d CN fd d id'd d 00 O' c d cN d d d id'd d 00 O' c d fN* 
 'O'O'O'O'O'O'O'O'Ot^r^t^t^t^t^t^t^t^t^XXXXXXXXXXXO'O'O' 
 
 'OX'':fiiOOOX’-i^'^tNXXX^iOCNi/!»-iCNr^t^'^ 0 <r)CtNXOTt''^Xr^ 
 
 CNiOXOCNCNXXCNT-iO'CXO'0^'CC'^t^O''-iX’'^''^''!ffC^Ot^'^0'0 
 
 'OiO'^TtiXCN'-iOOX'OiOTt<X^CXr^iCX^CX'C’-itNOXi/;X'-' 0'0 
 
 0 ' 0000 ' 0 ' 0 'OXXXXXXXXt^r^t>t^t^r~' 0 ' 0 ' 0 ' 0 'Oi/ 5 UOi/ 5 LCTt''^ 
 
 O d CN d d id id d x" O' o d d d d id id d X* o* c* d d d d'd d o6 o* c* d d 
 
 THT-l^»-H»-ii-(^^^i-lCNfSCNCNCNCNCNCNCNCNXXXXXXXXXX'^'^'^ 
 
 . c ^ 
 
 0 
 
 0) 
 
 o c 
 
 O o 
 
 o 
 
 C +j 
 . *1^X1 
 
 0) C 
 
 <u 
 
 o 
 
 c 
 
 c 
 
 o • . 
 
 ^ ^ ^ > 
 
 O 4 d +-> ^ c /5 c /5 
 
 -.. Illlllll! 
 
 . o 
 O ^ 
 
 ^ ^ ^ 
 
 o 
 
 c 
 
 o 
 
 <D 
 
 O g 
 ^x 
 
 -M -t-> 
 
 I I 
 
 -r~' -r— ■^— 
 
 ^X O ^tH ^XXXXXXXXXX 0 0^0 
 
 leg 
 
 I I 
 
 c ^ 
 Sf X 
 
 £ “• 
 
 c /5 0 ^ 
 
 I 
 
PRESENT VALUE TABLES—Continued. 
 
 174 
 
 7 years 
 and 
 
 —weeks 
 
 364.0392 
 
 364.8318 
 
 365.6239 
 
 366.4156 
 
 367.2068 
 
 367.9975 
 
 368.7878 
 
 369.5777 
 
 370.3671 
 
 6 years 
 and 
 
 —weeks 
 
 322.1993 
 
 323.0156 
 
 323.8315 
 
 324.6469 
 
 325.4618 
 
 326.2763 
 
 327.0903 
 
 327.9039 
 
 328.7169 
 
 5 years 
 and 
 
 —weeks 
 
 279.1041 
 
 279.9449 
 
 280.7852 
 
 281.6251 
 
 282.4645 
 
 283.3034 
 
 284.1419 
 
 284.9788 
 
 285.8173 
 
 1 
 
 4 years 
 and 
 
 —weeks 
 
 234.7160 
 
 235.5821 
 
 236.4476 
 
 237.3127 
 
 238.1773 
 
 239.0414 
 
 239.9049 
 
 240.7680 
 
 241.6307 
 
 3 years 
 and 
 
 —weeks 
 
 188.9964 
 
 189.8884 
 
 190.7799 
 
 191.6709 
 
 192.5714 
 
 193.4514 
 
 194.3409 
 
 195.2299 
 
 196.1184 
 
 2 years 
 and 
 
 —weeks 
 
 141.9051 
 
 142.8239 
 
 143.7421 
 
 144.6599 
 
 145.5771 
 
 146.4938 
 
 147.4100 
 
 148.3257 
 
 149.2408 
 
 1 year 
 and 
 
 —weeks 
 
 93.4011 
 
 94.3474 
 
 95.2933 
 
 96.2385 
 
 97.1833 
 
 98.1275 
 
 99.0711 
 
 100.0143 
 
 100.9569 
 
 0 years 
 
 43.4420 
 
 44.4167 
 
 45.3909 
 
 46.3645 
 
 47.3376 
 
 48.3101 
 
 49.2821 
 
 50.2526 
 
 51.2244 
 
 1 
 
 w 
 
 0) 
 
 (U 
 
 C 
 
 Vx 
 
 (U 
 
 H 
 
 (U 
 
 > 
 
 C +j 
 
 0 'I* 
 
 > tb a 
 
 vt-i tC u; t/5 0 C 
 
 O 
 
 111*11 . T I 
 
 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 u u u u uc^iziz 
 
 O O O O O 0 73^^ 
 pL,pLHplHpL,pL,plH(i,fiHpI< 
 
 o a 
 
 •i-i 
 
 9 «H 
 0) 
 
 02 2 
 
 tH o 
 
 ^ s 
 
 «w ^ 
 
 o 
 
 a 
 
 bi: ® 
 ^ u 
 
 d 
 
 P 
 
 P 
 
 P 
 
 ci 
 
 'P 
 
 o 
 
 'P 
 
 «H 
 
 a 
 
 ?-i 
 
 o 
 
 d 
 
 P ^ 
 P* _r 
 
 9. ^ 
 
 p o 
 
 - a 
 
 -M 
 
 c; ^ 
 a cj 
 
 a 
 
 Pi 
 
 c3 
 
 fO O 
 
 -M 
 
 cS 
 
 <D 
 
 P 
 
 d 
 
 > 
 
 o 
 
 p 
 
 <D 
 
 O 
 
 -i-J 
 
 P 
 o 
 m 
 <u <u 
 
 -i-j 
 
 <D 
 
 d 
 
 0) 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 p 
 
 <D 
 
 iiD 
 
 a> 
 
 P 
 
 a 
 
 d 
 
 o 
 
 G) 
 
 o 
 
 02 
 
 d 
 
 p 
 
 p 
 
 a 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 'W 
 
 o 
 
 02 
 
 u 
 
 d 
 
 o 
 
 a> 
 
 a 
 
 ci *T’, 
 
 
 Ci 
 
 P 
 
 rV 
 
 r^ h- 
 fcJD'^ 
 
 O) 
 
 o 
 
 C/3 , C/3 
 
 U 
 
 -rt O 
 
 O' C 
 
 rt 1 P> 
 
 ro 
 
 C 
 
 \C 
 
 C O 
 
 CN nn 
 
 
 IC 
 
 
 
 6 years 
 
 and — 
 
 months 
 
 132.8254 
 
 133.6611 
 
 tr. . w 
 
 Cvj O 
 r^i xr: 
 
 03 1 x-> 
 
 rsj X 
 
 0Td c 
 
 
 >> G O 
 
 (M* X 
 
 lO ^ S 
 
 
 in , w 
 
 O 
 o o 
 
 c3 1 +J 
 
 
 0TD c 
 
 X 
 
 G c 
 
 ^ rs 
 
 rt ^ c 
 
 O' ■ 
 
 rt 1 xj 
 
 X 
 
 05 lO 
 
 O' o 
 
 
 
 >* G O 
 
 o’ d 
 
 fo s 
 
 vC 
 
 w , t/) 
 
 05 O 
 
 ' 1 
 
 05 MG 
 
 c 
 
 ic rh 
 
 >' G o 
 
 ol x’ 
 
 fs ^ £ 
 
 
 
 C VC 
 
 <-< 1 ^ 
 
 05 O 
 
 
 O 
 
 ^ c o 
 
 O to 
 rjJ ic 
 
 ^ G g 
 
 05 05 
 
 W 
 
 X 05 
 
 O- O 
 
 c3 
 
 o o 
 
 0 
 
 o o 
 
 >> 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 -f XI 
 
 
 
 
 1 G 
 
 ■ 
 
 P o 
 
 r* rH 
 
 ’g ■ A 
 
 c; ^ 
 
 
 
 0 0 
 
 G C 
 
 
 CO 
 
175 
 
 VO rl« 
 
 to 
 
 
 to rf 
 
 vO O to CN 
 
 CN X 
 
 CN 
 
 Ov O O Tt 
 
 9 "^ 
 
 
 O 00 
 
 VO tS 
 
 00 fO 
 
 ^ CO to 
 
 VO VO 
 
 X Tt 
 
 t-h X X o 
 
 X -t 
 
 vO t>» 
 
 00 00 
 
 Ov O 
 
 o ^ 
 
 ^ CN CN CN 
 
 CN CN 
 
 CN CN 
 
 ^ ^ ^ 
 
 X — 
 
 CN O 
 
 00 VO 
 
 Tit ro 
 
 
 to CO T-i 
 
 O' 
 
 X X 
 
 T-I O X 
 
 
 rj« lo 
 
 to VO 
 
 00 
 
 O' o^ 
 
 O ^ CN CO 
 
 X Tt 
 
 id vd 
 
 X O' 
 
 ^ lo 
 
 \n to 
 
 to to 
 
 to to 
 
 to to 
 
 vo vo vo vo 
 
 vo vo 
 
 vo 'O 
 
 vO vO vO vO 
 
 t^ o 
 
 
 
 
 
 ^ rH ^ ^ 
 
 
 
 
 ^ X 
 
 
 fO VO 
 
 O vO 
 
 fO fN 
 
 CN CO vO T-t 
 
 Ot 
 
 X X 
 
 X O Tt tH 
 
 C CN 
 
 VO o 
 
 CO to 
 
 
 vO 
 
 Tit ^ CO 
 
 
 Tt VO 
 
 r>» vO 
 
 O X 
 
 O' fo 
 
 VO Ov 
 
 (M to 
 
 00 —t 
 
 Tit O' CN 
 
 Tt 
 
 
 X X o 
 
 c c 
 
 rjt fO 
 
 0 ^ 
 
 00 vo 
 
 Tit fO 
 
 ^ ^ vO 
 
 Tt CN 
 
 O O' 
 
 lo X ^ 
 
 X T^ 
 
 Tf* lO 
 
 VO vd 
 
 00 
 
 O' o 
 
 ■<-1 —1 CN <d 
 
 Tt id 
 
 vo vd 
 
 X o c 
 
 c o' 
 
 fO fO 
 
 fO fo 
 
 fO fO 
 
 fO Tit 
 
 Tt Tt Tit Tit 
 
 Tt Tt 
 
 Tt Tt 
 
 Tt Tt Tt X 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 O' 00 
 
 O' o 
 
 (N to 
 
 00 fO 
 
 X to CN O 
 
 o o 
 
 ^ Tt< 
 
 
 IN -H 
 
 Tt< fO 
 
 1 -H O' 
 
 to O 
 
 Tt 00 
 
 O CN CO <0 
 
 CN O 
 
 X 
 
 X X vO o 
 
 
 Tjt O 
 
 0 » th 
 
 ro 
 
 00 <o 
 
 Ov Tt Ov Tt 
 
 O Tt 
 
 X X 
 
 CN vO o 
 
 ITi ^ 
 
 ^ o 
 
 00 
 
 to Tit 
 
 CN i-H 
 
 O' X vO to 
 
 X CN 
 
 O O' 
 
 VO Tt X 
 
 ^ lo 
 
 tj 3 to 
 
 to VO 
 
 00 
 
 Ch o 
 
 O ’-T CN fd 
 
 Tt to 
 
 vd vd 
 
 X o d 
 
 
 
 
 
 tH cn 
 
 CN CN CN CN 
 
 CN CN 
 
 CN CN 
 
 CN CN CN X 
 
 X X 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 lO ^ 
 
 ro 
 
 Or>. 
 
 Tt ^ 
 
 O' t-T. vo to 
 
 Tt Tt 
 
 X X 
 
 r'- O T~< Tt 
 
 X X 
 
 ^ vO 
 
 O fS 
 
 Tit Tit 
 
 Tit CO 
 
 O X X 
 
 CN X 
 
 X 
 
 X vO X 
 
 O CN 
 
 O' 
 
 to Tit 
 
 CN O 
 
 00 vo 
 
 Tt ^ Ov vo 
 
 
 X X 
 
 CN O vC X 
 
 o o 
 
 tH O 
 
 O 00 
 
 vO 
 
 Tit CO 
 
 CN T-t Ov X 
 
 'O 
 
 Tt X 
 
 CN o O' X 
 
 vO X 
 
 fO TjJ 
 
 Tit to 
 
 so 
 
 00 O' 
 
 O T-i ^ CN 
 
 X Tt 
 
 X VO 
 
 X X o 
 
 C t-h’ 
 
 O' Ov 
 
 o o 
 
 Ov Ov 
 
 Ov Ov 
 
 c o o o 
 
 o o 
 
 c o 
 
 coco 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ▼H tH 
 
 ▼-H wH 
 
 
 
 
 00 00 
 
 00 
 
 vo Tit 
 
 CO T^ 
 
 O' VO Tt 
 
 X vO 
 
 X o 
 
 VC X O 
 
 Tt O 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 to fN 
 
 00 CO 
 
 VC Ov th CN 
 
 O 
 
 X to 
 
 C X O T-^ 
 
 X th 
 
 ^ fS 
 
 fO Tjt 
 
 to vO 
 
 vo 
 
 X X 
 
 X X 
 
 
 vO X X 
 
 Tt X 
 
 vO to 
 
 Tit fO 
 
 CN ^ 
 
 O O' 
 
 X VO X 
 
 Tt X 
 
 CN T-i 
 
 C O X 
 
 vO X 
 
 (N 
 
 rd Tit 
 
 to vd 
 
 
 X Ov O T^ 
 
 CN X 
 
 Tt td 
 
 vo vd X 
 
 
 
 t'. 
 
 r>. 
 
 
 X X 
 
 X X 
 
 X X 
 
 X X X X 
 
 X o 
 
 00 o 
 
 T-I fN 
 
 O 00 
 
 vo CN 
 
 CN X X 
 
 
 X X 
 
 X T-I C 
 
 X vO 
 
 VO to 
 
 eN t>- 
 
 «N to 
 
 00 O 
 
 O O X X 
 
 CN 
 
 
 vO O' 
 
 X X 
 
 O --it 
 
 00 ^ 
 
 to 00 
 
 ^ to 
 
 X *-t CO "O 
 
 
 Tt VO 
 
 X C CN Tt 
 
 vC t-^ 
 
 Tt< fO 
 
 CS CN 
 
 ^ o 
 
 O ov 
 
 X X vO 
 
 lO X 
 
 Tt X 
 
 CN CN T^ O 
 
 O X 
 
 o^ o 
 
 »-l fS 
 
 fd Tit 
 
 to to 
 
 vd X O' 
 
 o ^ 
 
 CN X 
 
 Tt X vd td 
 
 rd 00 
 
 Tft to 
 
 to to 
 
 to to 
 
 to to 
 
 to X X X 
 
 vo vO 
 
 vo vO 
 
 vo vO vO vO 
 
 vo vO 
 
 X O 
 
 O Ov 
 
 vo th 
 
 X r^ 
 
 X O X CN 
 
 l^ tH 
 
 X Tt 
 
 Tt X C vo 
 
 TH 
 
 t^ Tt 
 
 O' CN 
 
 X I'T 
 
 t^ vO 
 
 Tt tH tH. (N 
 
 X X 
 
 O O' 
 
 X vo X X 
 
 X X 
 
 X c 
 
 vo X 
 
 O X 
 
 tH Ct* 
 
 X o Tt c 
 
 X C 
 
 X C 
 
 X C X o 
 
 Tt X 
 
 X X 
 
 Tt Tt 
 
 X X 
 
 X (N 
 
 CN tH tH tH 
 
 c c 
 
 O Ov 
 
 X X i^ vO 
 
 vo X 
 
 vd id 
 
 X d 
 
 C th’ 
 
 CN X 
 
 Tt id vd id 
 
 x’d 
 
 o’ d 
 
 TH rN rd Tt 
 
 id vd 
 
 CN CN 
 
 CN CN 
 
 X X 
 
 X X 
 
 X X X X 
 
 X X 
 
 X Tt 
 
 Tt Tt Tt Tt 
 
 Tt Tt 
 
 X X 
 
 CN X 
 
 TH rN 
 
 
 CN Tt Tt CN 
 
 r*T» ^ 
 
 X X 
 
 TH tH 
 
 Tt X 
 
 CN I'T 
 
 TH X 
 
 X X 
 
 
 X X c 
 
 
 ^H O' 
 
 vO th vO O 
 
 TH rN 
 
 O X 
 
 X l^ 
 
 vo X 
 
 
 TH o X 
 
 lO ro 
 
 tH OO 
 
 VC Tt TH 00 
 
 vo X 
 
 Ov Ov 
 
 Ov O 
 
 Ov O' 
 
 O' o 
 
 Ov O^ X X 
 
 00 00 
 
 X i^ 
 
 t^ vC 
 
 sC so 
 
 CN X* 
 
 Tt X* 
 
 vd id 
 
 00 Ov 
 
 O tH CN cd 
 
 rh lO 
 
 vd id 
 
 x’ o’ d th’ 
 
 CN x’ 
 
 
 
 
 
 ^ ^ ^ 
 
 
 tH tH 
 
 th TH rN CN 
 
 CN <N 
 
 I 
 
 nJ 
 
 Xi 
 
 I 
 
 a; 
 
 U 
 
 o 
 
 C 
 
 a 
 
 (U 
 
 c 
 
 I 
 
 - Qi 
 
 ■ C 
 
 • o 
 
 ■•d 
 
 • c 
 
 • d < 
 
 0) 
 
 G 
 
 O 
 
 'd 
 
 G 
 
 oJ 
 
 OJ <u. 
 
 (U 
 
 G 
 
 o 
 
 •d 
 
 G 
 
 ctJ 
 
 G 
 
 O 
 
 G 
 
 ctJ 
 
 ct 3 
 
 j::: 
 
 t 
 
 0 ) 
 
 G 
 
 O 
 
 TJ 
 
 G 
 
 
 pLift, pHfe 
 
 OJ 
 
 G 
 
 O 
 
 TJ 
 
 G 
 
 c3 
 
 G G' 
 
 <U 
 
 G 
 
 O 
 
 'd 
 
 G 
 
 03 
 
 -u -u. 
 
 <U 
 
 G 
 
 O 
 
 -d 
 
 G 
 
 03 
 
 ^ D d) o3 JI3 ^ o3 *1^ o3 
 
 > >X bC cx: 
 
 mmmtn WW 
 
 I 
 
 <U 
 G 
 O 
 
 'd 
 G G 
 o 3 <L) 
 
 G G 
 
 d) (U^ 
 
 d> 
 
 G 
 
 O 
 
 ■d 
 
 G 
 
 o 3 
 
 d) 
 
 > TO (u 
 
 H 
 
 W 
 
s 
 
INDEX 
 
 General Mining Law — 
 
 Section. 
 
 1 . 
 
 o 
 
 O* 
 
 
 (a) 
 
 (b) 
 
 (c) 
 
 (d) 
 
 (e) 
 
 (f) 
 
 (g) 
 
 4. 
 
 5. 
 
 State Mining Board . 
 
 Powers and duties of board . ! 
 
 Date and term of appointment . 
 
 Supplies furnished by Secretary of State.. 
 
 Frequency of meetings . 
 
 Kule of procedure. . 
 
 Compensation of members — salary of chief 
 
 clerk . 
 
 Credentials .‘. 
 
 Examination for Inspectors . 
 
 Names certified to the Governor 
 Examinations for mine managers 
 Examination for mine managers. . 
 Examinations for mine examiners 
 pjxaminations for hoisting engineers 
 
 Examination papers preserved. 
 
 Certificates issued by the Board . 
 
 Record to be preserved. 
 
 Effect of certificates. 
 
 Unlawful to employ other than certificated 
 
 mine manager. 
 
 Unlawful to employ ot>^' man certificated 
 
 mine examiner. 
 
 Unlawful .to employ other than certificated 
 
 hoisting engineer. 
 
 Temporary employment of uncertificated 
 
 persons not extended. 
 
 Removal of inspectors. 
 
 Cancellation of certificates. 
 
 Inspection districts. 
 
 (a) Inspectors appointed. 
 
 County inspectors. * . 
 
 Bond. 
 
 Instruments . 
 
 Examination of mines. 
 
 Scope of examination. 
 
 Authority to enter. 
 
 Procedure in case of objection. 
 
 Notices to be posted. . . 
 
 (a) 
 
 (b) 
 
 (c) 
 
 (d) 
 
 (d) 
 
 (e) 
 
 (f) 
 
 (g) 
 
 (a) 
 
 (b) 
 
 (c) 
 
 (d) 
 
 (e) 
 
 (f) 
 
 (g) 
 
 (h) 
 
 (i) 
 
 (b) 
 
 (c) 
 
 (d) 
 
 (e) 
 
 (f) 
 
 (g) 
 
 (b) 
 
 (i) 
 
 2VJ 
 
178 
 
 INDEX—Continued. 
 
 General Minins Law —Continued. 
 
 Section. 
 
 (j) 
 
 (k) 
 
 ( l ) 
 
 (m) 
 
 (n) 
 
 Sealer of weights. 
 
 Test weights. 
 
 Inspector’s annual reports 
 Reports to be published. .. 
 Reports by operator. 
 
 Page. 
 
 0 
 
 . 34 
 . 34 
 . 34 
 . 35 
 
 6 . 
 i . 
 
 / 
 
 8 . 
 
 9. 
 
 I- 
 
 i 
 
 Pay of inspectors. 
 
 (a) Maps required. 
 
 (b) Surface survey. 
 
 (c) Underground survey. 
 
 (d) Maps for every seam. 
 
 (e) Separate map for the surface. 
 
 (f) The dip. 
 
 (g) Copies for inspectors and recorders. 
 
 (h) Annual surveys. 
 
 (i) Abandoned mines. 
 
 (j) Special survey. 
 
 (k) Penalties for failure... 
 
 Sinking subject to inspection. 
 
 (a) ® Two places of egress. 
 
 (b) Distance from main shaft. 
 
 (c) Unlawful to employ more than ten men. . . 
 
 (d) Stairways or cages. 
 
 (e) Passageways to escapement. 
 
 (f) Communication with adjacent mines. 
 
 (a) Gates at landings. 
 
 (b) Lights on landings. 
 
 (c) Hoisting equipment. 
 
 (d) Brake on drum—flanges—rope fastenings 
 
 —indicator. 
 
 fe) Signals. 
 
 (f) Gauges . 
 
 (g) Safety valves. 
 
 (h) Inspector of boilers. 
 
 (i) Run-around at bottom. 
 
 (j) Refuge place on shaft bottom. 
 
 (k) Obstructions in shaft. 
 
 (l) Inspection . 
 
 (a) Buildings on the surface. 
 
 (b) Oil and other explosives. 
 
 (c) Engine and Boiler house. 
 
 (a) Top man and bottom man. 
 
 (b) Speed of cages and other regulations.... 
 
 (c) Rights of men to come out. 
 
 Safety Lamps. 
 
 35 
 
 36 
 36 
 36 
 
 36 
 
 37 
 37 
 
 37 
 
 38 
 
 38 
 
 39 
 
 39 
 
 40 
 
 41 
 41 
 
 41 
 
 42 
 
 42 
 
 43 
 
 43 
 
 44 
 
 44 
 
 45 
 
 46 
 46 
 46 
 
 46 
 
 47 
 47 
 
 47 
 
 48 
 48 
 
 48 
 
 49 
 49 
 
 49 
 
 50 
 
 t 
 
 v' 
 
 \ 
 
 J 
 
INDEX — Continued. 
 General Mining Law —Concluded. 
 Section. 
 
 Paee. 
 
 14. Ventilation . 
 
 (b) Refuge places, mule roads__ . . . . . V. . .So 
 
 (b) Refuge places, mule roads. )55 
 
 (c) Room necks as refuge places. 55 
 
 (d) • Keeping refuge places clear. 55 
 
 (e) Gob on haulage roads... 55 
 
 Cars . io 
 
 (a) Voltage ..i(; 
 
 (b) Wires crossing haulage roads. 66 
 
 (a) Oil standards . 50 
 
 (b) Brands of oil .. . . 57 
 
 (c) Penalty . 67 
 
 (d) Sampling and testing./57 
 
 (a) Amount of powder in mine. 58 
 
 (b) Place and manner of keeping in the mine. . . ^ 58 
 
 (c) Manner of handling . 158 
 
 (d) Quantity of powder in one charge. '59 
 
 (e) Standard charger. 59 
 
 (f) Dead holes. 59 
 
 (g) Mixed shots . '60 
 
 (h) Copper tools . 60 
 
 (i) Tamping . 60 
 
 (j) Use of squibs . 60 
 
 Warning before firing . ^60 
 
 one shot at a time. ' 
 
 16. 
 
 17. 
 
 18. 
 
 19. 
 
 20 . 
 
 21 . 
 
 22 . 
 
 23. 
 
 24. 
 
 25. 
 
 26. 
 
 27. 
 
 28. 
 
 29. 
 
 30. 
 
 31. 
 
 (k) 
 
 (l) Not more than 
 
 (m) Missed shots 
 
 Duty of mine 
 Certified mine 
 
 managers 
 
 examiners 
 
 )0 
 
 )1 
 
 f)l 
 
 64 
 
 Duty of hoisting engineer. 67 
 
 Special rules. 68 
 
 (a) Ten foot limit..'.^O 
 
 (b) Approaching abandoned workings. 7f0 
 
 (a) Duty of inspector. '^0 
 
 (b) Coroner’s inquest. J1 
 
 (c) Investigation by inspection. Til 
 
 Stretchers and blankets. 712 
 
 (a) Scales .712 
 
 (b) Weighman . 7 
 
 (c) Check weighman. 7 
 
 Boys and women.;. 7 
 
 Penalties . 7 
 
 Definition of terms.. 7i 
 
 Repeal. 
 
180 
 
 INDEX—Continued. 
 
 Right of Eminent Domain— 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 1. Road or railroad. 77 
 
 2. Trespass, surveyor. '(S 
 
 3. Surveyor, powers, penalty. 78 
 
 4. Examination, expenses. 78 
 
 5. Trespass, penalty. 79 
 
 0. Mining rights, conveyance. 79 
 
 ^ 7. Mining rights, taxation. 79 
 
 8 . Lead mineral, record. 79 
 
 9. Lead mineral, record, inspection. 79 
 
 10. Lead mineral, purchaser, statement. 80 
 
 11. Lead mineral, purchase. 80 
 
 12. Lead mineral, purchase, penalty. 80 
 
 WaAes^ Lien on Property— 
 
 , l.i Laborer or minerss wages, lien on all property. ... 81 
 
 Mi>;:ers Paid for All Coal Mined— 
 
 )1. Wages, payment.81 
 
 12. Investigation and prosecution. 81 
 
 ;3. Violation, penalty.82 
 
 SHjOT Firers in Coal AIines— 
 
 11. Shot firers furnished. 82 
 
 1 2 . When . 83 
 
 3. Shot firers, notice, record. 83 
 
 4. Blasting . 83 
 
 5. Drill holes, alteration. 84 
 
 0. Unlawful shots. 84 
 
 7. Unlawful shot, ordering. 84 
 
 8 . ATolation, penalty. 84 
 
 Fiire Fighting Equipment— 
 
 1. Requirements . 85 
 
 /' 2. Water supply, hose and pipe connections, auto¬ 
 
 matic sprinkler, water barrels, chemical fire 
 extinguishers . 86 
 
 3. Drainage, water pressure. S9 
 
 4. Underground stables, hay, bedding and feed; 
 
 light . 90 
 
181 
 
 INDEX —ContiDued. 
 
 Fire Fighting Equipment — Concluded. 
 
 Section. Pa 
 
 5. Telephone lines, notice of danger, ‘ rules and in¬ 
 structions, fire drill . 
 
 0 . Fireproof construction . 
 
 7. Violation, complaints, penalties. 
 
 Rescue Stations — 
 
 1. Rescue stations, number. 
 
 2. Commission, appointment, compensation. 
 
 3. Station sites, cooperation. 
 
 4. Plans, State architect. 
 
 5. Superintendents and assistants, number, appoint¬ 
 
 ment, instructions . 
 
 0 . Salaries . 
 
 7. Commission, duty. 
 
 8 . Superintendents, duty. 
 
 9. Biennial report . 
 
 10. Appropriation . 
 
 j 
 
 ( 
 
 0 
 
 Miners' Examining Board — 
 
 Certificates of competency, duplicates. 
 
 2. (Repealed, See Civil Administrative Code) 
 3 and 4. (Repealed as above). 
 
 5. Organization, secretary, duties. 
 
 6 . Examinations, time and place, notice. . . . 
 
 7. Fees . 
 
 8 . Examinations, certificates, record. 
 
 9. Annual report . 
 
 10. Violations, penalties .. 
 
 11. Complaints and prosecutions . 
 
 12. Oath, perjury . 
 
 13. Removal of Commissioners . 
 
 14. Invalidity . 
 
 15. Repeal . 
 
 Oil and Gas Wells— 
 
 1. Wells, distance . 
 
 2. Statement, map, record . 
 
 3. Abandoned well, plugging . 
 
182 
 
 INDEX—Continued. 
 
 |l and Gas Wells —Concluded. 
 
 fction. Page. 
 
 4. AflBdavit of plugging.105 
 
 5. Fresh water, casing of.106 
 
 6 . Violations, penalties.106 
 
 7. Emergency .107 
 
 ,0AL AND Other Mineral Leases to be Released of 
 Record When Forfeited— 
 
 1. Release, recording. 107 
 
 2. Mandamus, attorney’s fees.107 
 
 [iL AND Gas Leases to be Released of Record When 
 Forfeited— 
 
 1. Release, recording.108 
 
 2. Mandamus, attorney’s fees...109 
 
 Igulating the Character of Permissible Explosives— 
 
 1. Permissible explosives, specifications.109 
 
 2. Samples .110 
 
 3. Place of testing.110 
 
 4. Testing samples.110 
 
 5. Violations, prosecutions.Ill 
 
 6 . Storing explosives. Ill 
 
 7. Magazines, construction.Ill 
 
 8 . Misstamping, etc.Ill 
 
 9. Penalties .Ill 
 
 [egulating the Character of Black Powder Used 
 in Mines— 
 
 1. Black powder, specifications.112 
 
 2. Stamping .113 
 
 3. Unlawful sale, penalty.114 
 
 4. Samples and tests.114 
 
 Vash Rooms for Employes— 
 
 1. Wash rooms, establishment 
 
 2. Requirements . 
 
 3. Inspection . 
 
 4. Violation, penalty. 
 
 5. Second offense, etc., penalty 
 
 115 
 
 116 
 116 
 116 
 116 
 
INDEX — Continued. 
 
 Capital Stock Ownership— 
 
 Section. 
 
 1. Capital stock, authority to own. 
 
 Mining Engineering— ■ 
 
 1. Department of Mining Engineering.llB 
 
 2 . Courses of instruction.■ 
 
 3. Dissemination of scientific facts. Hm 
 
 4. Appropriation .ID- 
 
 5. Warrants .11^ 
 
 Trespass and Intimidation— 
 
 160. Intimidation, penalty.1 
 
 268. Trespass, penalty.1 
 
 Information— 
 
 1. Information, duty or inspectors.1 
 
 . 2. Expenses, payment.11 
 
 Mining Investigation— 
 
 1. Commission, appointment, powers and duties.... 12 ; 
 
 2. Witnesses, subpoenas, contempt, seal.12 
 
 3. Organization, meeting, quorum, record.12 
 
 4. Report, recommendations, termination of com¬ 
 
 mission .12 
 
 5. Expenses and compensation, stenographer.12- 
 
 6 . Appropriation, warrants, printing.12 
 
 Rules and Regulations Governing Examinations .... 12 ^ 
 
 Workmen’s Compensation— 
 
 1. Effective as to certain employers, notice duration 
 
 and termination of election, liability.127| 
 
 2. (Repealed by Act of June 25, 1917).12tl 
 
 3. Compulsory upon extra hazardous employment... 1291 
 3^. Non-election notice, presumption, certificates.... 130l 
 
 4. Employer defined.131 
 
 5. Employee defined.132, 
 
 6 . Common law remedies.133 
 
 7. Compesation for fatal injuries.13^ 
 
 8 . Compensation for non-fatal injuries.Ijfl 
 
 » 
 
184 
 
 INDEX—Concluded. 
 
 "0RKMEX\S Compensation—C oncluded, 
 lection. 
 
 9. Lump-sum settlement, petition, limitation.142 
 
 10 . Compensation, computation basis....,'. 14,3 
 
 11. Liability, limitation. I 45 
 
 12 . Physical examination.I 45 
 
 13. Industrial Commission (Board).146 
 
 14. Salaries .. 
 
 15. Industrial Commission (Board), jurisdiction.147 
 
 16. Rules and regulations, procedure, fees.148 
 
 17. Blanks, records.I 49 
 
 |18. Disputed questions, jurisdiction.1.50 
 
 119. Disputed questions, procedure, judgment, re- 
 
 I ' view . 150 
 
 [20. Annual report. 159 
 
 I 21 . Assignment of claim, insolvency, decease of 
 
 claimant ..\ ..159 
 
 ' 22 . Fraudulent contracts.160 
 
 23. Waiver . ' .160 
 
 24. Notice of accident or injury, claim for injury, 
 
 limitation .*. ...160 
 
 25. Release from liability.161 
 
 26. Financial responsibility, security.162 
 
 27. Insurance, relief benefit.164 
 
 28. Subrogation, insurance companies.165 
 
 29. Subrogation, third parties.165 
 
 30. Accident reports.167 
 
 31. Contractors and subcontractors, liability.168 
 
 32. Deduction, disputed claims, jurisdiction.168 
 
 33. Offenses, penalty.169 
 
 331 / 2 . Short title . 169 
 
 34. • Invalidity .169 
 
 35. Repeal .169 
 
 Tables of Compensation— 
 
 Present values.Ill 
 
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA 
 
 3 0112116639292