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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter one hun-

dred and seventy-three, entitled ' An act regulating

the working and proper ventilation of coal mines in

Additional

Allegany and Garrett counties, and providing for the

section.

appointment of an inspector of said mines,' and to

re-enact the same with amendments, be and the same

is hereby amended by adding an additional section

to said act passed at this present session, to be num-

bered section fifteen and one-half, to read as follows :

SEC. 15 1/2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That it shall be lawful, however, not-

withstanding the provisions of the act to which this

is supplementary and amendatory, for any corpora-

tion or individual engaged in mining coal in Alle-

gany and Garrett counties, in this State, in or by a

May contract

a shaft, to contract with miners to dig the coal there-

with miners.

in or therefrom by measurement, and in all cases

where the wages of the miners are by contract or

agreement ascertained by the cubic yard or other

measurement, it shall not be obligatory upon such

corporations or individuals so contracting to provide

scales, or any weigh-master or weigh-masters at such

shaft, or to weigh any coal therein, or taken there-

from ; but the miners cars used in any mine worked

by a shaft shall be measured by a sworn measurer,

and the capacity of each car shall be stamped or

branded thereon.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1878.