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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 124.

his office, and the person so appointed shall be paid in the
same manner as hereinbefore provided for the Inspector of
Mines.
Section 200 of Article 1 and Section 154 of Article 12.

Power given
to enter coal
mine, etc.

That the Mine Inspector may be enabled to perform the
duties herein imposed upon him, he shall have the right at all
times to enter any coal mine to make examinations or obtain
information ; and upon the discovery of any violation of this
Act, it shall be the duty of said Mine Inspector to report the
same to the grand jury for the proper county; and the grand
juries for each of the said counties are hereby directed to
summon said Mine Inspector before them at each term of
Court, and the respective Courts of Allegany and Garrett
counties shall call this section to the attention of each grand
jury.
Section 201 of Article 1 and Section 155 of Article 12.
Whenever loss of life or serious personal injury shall occur

Loss of life or
injury to be
reported.

by reason of any accident whatsoever, in or connected with
any coal mine, it shall be the duty of the person having
charge of said mine to report that fact, without delay, to the
inspector, and the said inspector shall, if he deem necessary
from the facts reported, and in all cases of loss of life, imme-
diately go to the scene of said accident and render every
possible assistance to those in need.
Section 202 of Article 1 and Section 156 of Article 12. That

Inspector or
Weights and
measures.

the Mine Inspector shall also be an inspector of weights and
measures at all mines now or hereafter opened in said counties,
and shall weigh several cars of coal mined therein once every
two months on the scales of the different mines, (or when re-
quested to do so, especially by any miner or operator), in order
to test the accuracy of said scales, and the State shall supply
said Mine Inspector with the required weights and apparatus
for testing scales, and to do any other act he may deem neces-
sary to ascertain whether the coal be justly weighed at said
mine ; and it shall be the duty of every person acting as weigh-
master for the owner, lessee or agent of said mines, before

Oath to be
taken.

entering upon the performance of his duty as weighmaster or
check-weighman, or before making any report, to make oath
before some justice of the peace, in the proper county, that he
will perform the duty of weighmaster or check weighman as
prescribed by this Act, at such mine, with honesty and fidelity,
and will keep a true and accurate account of all the coal so
weighed by him, and will credit and allow the full weight, and
no more, of coal in each mining car, to the party or parties
who mined the same at the rate of two thousand two hundred
and forty pounds per ton, and all fractions thereof to be