tem of ventilation, in so far as they pertain to splits and subdivisions. SEC. 8. All doors set on entries for the purpose of conducting ventilation shall be made sufficiently tight to effectually obstruct the air current, and any employe of the coal company who wilfully or maliciously refuses to keep such doors closed shall be subject to a fine not to exceed five dollars, or impris onment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the mine owners to close, or cause to be closed, all entry breakthroughs with air tight bratices, with the exception of the breakthrough nearest the working place of the employe, unless the area of breakthrough is too small to permit of the passage of air, when two breakthroughs may remain open. No obstruction of any kind to be placed in breakthrough nearest working face. SEC. 10. All mines generating explosive gases shall be examined every morning by a duly authorized agent of the proprietor, to determine whether there are dangerous accumulations of gas. No employe shall enter his working place until such examiner shall have reported all such conditions safe for beginning work. SEC. 11. Any shaft in process of sinking, and any opening projected for the purpose of mining coal shall be subject to the inspection of the State Inspector of Mines for the district in which said shaft or opening is located. SEC. 12. At the bottom of every shaft and at every caging place therein, a safe and commodious passage-way must be cut around said landing place to serve as a traveling way by which men and animals may pass from one side of the shaft to the other without passing under or on the cage. SEC. 13. The upper and lower landings at the top of each shaft, and the opening of each intermediate seam from or to the shaft, shall be kept clean and free from loose materials, and shall be securely fenced with automatic or other gates so as to prevent either man or materials. from falling into the shaft. SEC. 14. Every hoisting shaft must be equipped with substantial cages, fitted to guides running from the top to the bottom. Said cages must be safely constructed, they must be furnished with suitable iron covers, not less than threesixteenths inches in thickness to protect persons riding thereon from falling objects; the cages must be equipped with safety catches, which catches must be examined daily by the mine. owners or their representatives. Cages, catches and rope fastenings shall be examined daily, and cages tested by drop quarterly, and a record of these examinations shall be kept by the companies, and said records shall be subject to examination by the mine inspector or any authorized representative employe. SEC. 15. Every cage on which persons are carried must be fitted up with iron bars or rings in proper place, and a suffi cient number to furnish a secure hand-hold for each person permitted to ride thereon. That no more than ten men be Number of perallowed to ride upon a cage at the same time, and no one be sons, limited. allowed on one cage while a loaded car is on the other cage. SEC. 16. A light shall be provided at the top and bottom When light reof the shaft while men are being hoisted and lowered into quired in shaft. the shaft, except in daylight, when no light will be required at the top of the shaft. two means of SEC. 17. For every coal mine in the State, whether worked Mines to be by shaft, slope or drift, there shall be provided and maintained equipped with in addition to the hoisting shaft, a separate or escapement egress, shaft or opening from the surface to the coal vein or veins and communicating with the hoisting shaft through an opening in the mine, so as to constitute two separate means of egress to all persons employed in the mine. SEC. 18. The operators shall commence the sinking of an When air shaft escapement or air shaft not later than three months after the to be provided. main shaft has been sunk, and men shall not be employed in mines for a longer time than three months before the sinking of an air shaft and necessary underground approaches are begun, and when begun, the work in both air shafts and approaches shall be continually prosecuted until completed. The area of shaft to be not less than sixty-four square feet. Area of. SEC. 19. The escapement shaft at every mine shall be equip- Escapement ped with safe and ready means for the prompt removal of shaft, how men from the mines in time of danger, and such means shall be a substantial stairway set at an angle not greater than fortyfive degrees, which shall be provided with hand rails, and with platforms or landings at each turn of the stairway. This sec- Not applicable to tion not to apply to mines already opened, farther than to provide the ready means for the prompt removal of the men in time of danger. equipped. certain mines. shafts, exam SEC. 20. All escapement shafts and passageways leading Escapement thereto, or to the works of a contiguous mine must be carefully ined weekly. examined at least once a week by the mine manager or a man specially delegated by him for that purpose. If obstructions are found they shall be immediately removed. tween mines to SEC. 21. When operators of adjacent mines have by agree- Roadways bement established underground communication between said be unob mines, as an escapement outlet for men employed in both, the structed. roadways to the boundary on either side shall be kept clean of every obstruction so as not to prevent the free passage of the respective operators or employes, and the intervening door shall remain unlocked and ready at all times for immediate use. boiler houses. SEC. 22. Any building erected after the passage of this act, Location of for the purpose of housing boilers, shall not be less than sixty feet from shafts.. SEC. 23. Every hoisting engine used either for the sinking Hoisting engines, of escapement shafts or for the hoisting of coal shall be pro equipment of. Hoisting cables, how attached. Code of signals, how displayed, etc. State Inspector to test scales. Duty of mine foreman. Safety hooks. Powder, precautions used in handling. Penalty for violation. Illuminating oil. vided with 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. When cylinder drum is used, flanges with sufficient height shall be attached thereto to prevent the rope from slipping off the drum. SEC. 24. The ends of the hoisting cables shall be well secured on the drum and at least one and one-half laps of the same shall remain on the drum when the cage is at rest on the lowest cage rest in the shaft. SEC. 25. The following code of signals shall be used in the hoisting of coal, and in the hoisting and lowering of men into and from the mines; said code of signals shall be displayed in a conspicuous place, so that they may be easily seen by the engineer and cager when standing at their posts: One bell-hoist cage. Stop cage when in motion. Four bells-men at cage ready to be hoisted. Cage must always be stopped at landing on four bells. Five bells-hoist slowly, danger. Notice to men at bottom coming up-ring four bells. After engineer gives one blast with whistle, get on cage and ring one bell to be hoisted. Engineer wanting cage while on bottom will give four blasts with whistle before moving cage. SEC. 26. The State Inspector of Mines is hereby empowered to test all scales used in connection with the weighing of coal in or about the coal mines. He shall have full access to everything used in the weighing of coal. SEC. 27. It shall be the duty of the mine foreman or his assistant to visit each working place in the mine at least twice each week. SEC. 28. None but safety hooks shall be used on buckets in sinking shafts. SEC. 29. Every employe working in or about the coal mines of this State, and engaged in the handling of powder shall use every precaution to prevent premature explosion. In the preparing of blasts the following rules must be strictly observed in all cases: No lighted lamp, pipe or other article by which powder can be ignited shall be kept within four feet of the powder, and said lamp, pipe or other article must be on the windward side of powder. In blasts where fuse are used no miner or other person shall return to place of blast, when cartridge has failed to explode, before four hours have elapsed from the time of lighting the fuse. Any employe or other person violating these rules shall be subject to a fine not to exceed five dollars or to imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or both, upon conviction, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 30. That only a pure animal or vegetable oil, or other oil as free from smoke as a pure animal or vegetable oil and not the product or by-product of resin, shall be used for illuminating purposes in the mines of this State. to make quar SEC. 31. An inspector of oil shall visit the mines at least Inspector of oil four times a year to test all oils used for illuminating purposes terly tests. in the mines of this State, and any person or persons, firm or Misdemeanor. corporation having in charge the operation or running of any mine which, in a mine under his or its charge, uses or permits the use of any oil other than that prescribed by the provisions of this act, and any miner or mine employe who uses any oil other than prescribed in this act, in any mine in this State, shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five Penalty. dollars. of abandoned SEC. 32. It shall be the duty of the mine owners, previous Duty of owners to the abandonment of a mine to make or cause to be made a mines. map of all the underground workings of the said mine, and to file the said map with the State Inspector of Mines. SEC. 33. When the operations of a coal mine are becoming When inspector dangerously near an abandoned mine, the mine inspector shall notified. be notified by the mine management and he shall order such precautions taken as in his judgment will insure safety of life and property. SEC. 34. For the purpose of observing the best sanitary con- Sanitary ditions possible in the mines of this State, no employe therein conditions. shall use any portion of the mine excavations as a water closet, that is not at least twenty-five feet from any air cur rent. SEC. 35. For the greater protection of mine workers and the Dynamite, how better preservation of coal mines, the use of dynamite or other used, etc. similar explosives used in blasting coal loose, except the ordinary black powder commonly used in mines, is prohibited unless the mine management and miners agree it is a necessity. But nothing in this act shall be construed as preventing miners from using dynamite or similar explosives in coal as an assistance to shearing in narrow work where mine management and miners agree it is a necessity. Any violation of this section shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 36. Any owner, part owner, operator, manager, or su- Misdemeanor, perintendent of any such coal mine, or director or officer of what deemed. any stock company owning or operating any such mine, who shall wilfully violate any of the provisions of this law by omitting to comply with any of its said provisions, after a reasonable length of time after notice of such omission, by the State Mine Inspector shall, if not otherwise provided for, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be Penalty. punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. How road may be maintained. accept terms, etc., in writing. [No. 101.] AN ACT to amend section thirteen of act number thirty-five of the public acts of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred sixty-seven, as amended by act number twelve of the public acts of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-three, and act number two hundred thirty-four of the public acts of Michigan for the year nineteen hundred one, being section six thousand four hundred forty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section thirteen of act number thirty-five of the public acts of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred sixty-seven, as amended by act number twelve of the public acts of Michigan for the year eighteen hundred ninety-three, and act number two hundred thirty-four of the public acts of Michigan for the year nineteen hundred one, being section six thousand four hundred forty-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 13. Any street railway corporation organized under the provisions of this act may, with the consent of the corporate authorities of any city or village, given under and by an ordinance or ordinances, duly enacted for that purpose, under such rules, regulations and conditions as in and by said ordinance and ordinances shall be prescribed, construct, use, maintain and own a street railway for the transportation of passengers, in, upon, above or under the lines. of such streets and ways in said city or village as shall be designated and granted from time to time for that purpose in the ordinance or ordinances granting such consent; but Company to first no such railway company shall construct any railway in, upon, above or under the streets of any city or village until the company shall have accepted in writing the terms and conditions upon which they are permitted such use of such Terms of agree streets; and any such corporation may extend, construct, use and maintain its road in, along, above or under the streets or highways of any township adjacent to said city or village, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the company and the township board of the township, which agreement, and the acceptance of the company of the terms thereof, shall be recorded by the township clerk in the records of his township. Any company organized under the which company provisions of this act, may construct, use, maintain and own a street railway for the transportation of passengers in, along, above or under the streets and highways of any township, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the company and the township board, which agreement, ment between company and township. Acceptance, where recorded. Terms under may operate. |