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of any of said mines—such additional hours to be computed as overtime,
and to be paid for.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 12, sec. 166. 1886, ch. 170.

391. Any person, body corporate, agent, manager or employer, who
shall violate any of the provisions of the preceding section, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
more than fifty dollars.

1916, ch. 410, sec. 164P, sub-sec. G.

392. It shall be the duty of the Mine Inspector to make as to the clay
or fire-clay mines in Allegany or Garrett Counties the examination and
reports required as to coal mines under Section 197 of Article 1 and Sec-
tion 151 of Article 12 of this Act, and to make recommendations to the
State Board of Labor and Statistics as to the legislation requisite to pro-
tect life and health in such clay mines.*

MINERS' RELIEF FUND.

1910, ch. 153, sec. 2 (p. 485).

393. The word "operator" as herein used shall include every corpora-
tion, person, partnership or association engaged in the business of coal
mining or clay mining in Allegany and Garrett Counties, Maryland. The
word "employee" as herein used shall include miners, helpers, laborers,
drivers, trappers, roadmen, propmen, repairers, foremen, superintendents
and every employee engaged directly in or about the coal and clay mine

of an operator.

1910, ch. 153, sec. 3 (p. 486). 1912, ch. 445.

394. There is hereby created for Allegany and Garrett Counties, re-
spectively, a fund for the relief and sustenance of employees and their

dependents, when such said employees have sustained injuries or disability
in the discharge of their duty, and for the relief and sustenance of the

dependents of such employees when death has resulted from such injuries,
said fund to be made up of the proceeds of the tax hereinafter levied and
the increments from the investments thereof, as well as such donations
and legacies as may be made thereto.

In order to create and maintain said fund a tax is hereby levied and
imposed upon each operator and employee as follows: Upon each em-
ployee in Allegany County a tax of twenty-seven cents and upon each
employee in Garrett County a tax of thirty-eight cents for each month

or fraction of a month that he is employed by any operator, and upon each

operator in Allegany County a tax of twenty-seven cents and in Garrett
County a tax of thirty-eight cents for each month or fraction of a month
in respect of each employee paying the tax aforesaid and employed by
said operator in Allegany and Garrett Counties.

*Secs. 150-164P, sub-sec. F, repealed by ch. 307, 1922, and general law relating
to mining enacted. See Art. 89 of Annotated Code (1924 edition), secs. 17-177.