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of Garrett and Allegany, at least once in every month, and
oftener if necessary, to see that every precaution is taken to
insure safety to all workmen that may be engaged in said mines,
and to see that the provisions of sections 155 to 166, inclusive,
are strictly observed; and it shall further be the duty of the said
inspector, after being notified by a justice of the peace or coroner
of either of said counties of Garrett or Allegany, to attend at
every inquest that may be held on the body of every person that
may lose his life while engaged at work in or about any of the
coal mines of said counties, and he shall examine closely into the
cause by which said person lost hie life; and if it shall be fully
proven that the said person lost his life by any wilful violation of
any of said sections or any wilful failure to comply with any of
their provisions, the widow or lineal heirs of the person whose
life shall be so lost, may institute a suit against the owner, lessee
or operator of said mine wherein the accident took place, and
may recover such damages as the courts may determine, for the
loss they have sustained by the death of the person whose life has
been lost while engaged at work at said mines.

1878, ch. 157.

154. The said mine inspector, while in office, shall not act as
land agent, or as agent or superintendent and manager of any
mine, and shall in no manner whatever be under the employ of
any of the mining companies operating mines in said counties;
and it shall be the duty of said mine inspector, on or before
the first day of January in every year, to make a report to the
governor, of his proceedings as such mine inspector and the
condition of each and every mine in said counties, stating therein
all accidents that may have happened in or about the said mines,
and to set forth in said reports all such information that may be
proper and beneficial, and also to make such suggestions as he
may deem important as to any further legislation on the subject
of mining.

Ibid.

155. The owner or lessee of every coal mine that may be in
operation in the said counties of Garrett and Allegany shall make
or cause to be made an accurate map or plan of the workings of
such mine, which shall be kept at the office of the company,