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STATE OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 124.

by a sworn measurer, and said owner, lessee or agent shall
cause the capacity of each of said mining cars to be plainly
stamped or branded thereon.

Check-
weighmaster
appointed.

Section 205 of Article 1 and Section 159 of Article 12.
That at any time upon the request of a majority of the
miners then employed in any coal mine in said counties of
Allegany or Garrett, the agent, lessee or operator of such coal
mine shall permit said miners (but at their own expense) to
provide and keep in the said weigh house at said mine, at the
scales kept thereat, for such length of time as such miners
may require, a check-weighmaster, who shall have the right
at all times to be present when the coal mined at each mine
is being weighed by the weighmaster of said mine, and to
examine the scales thereof, and to take and keep a full state-
ment of the weight of each mining car load of coal, as shown
by the said scales when the coal is being weighed thereon by
said weighmaster, and upon the discovery by such check-
weighmaster of any wilful violation of any of the provisions
of this Act by the weighmaster employed at such mine, it
shall be the duty of such check-weighmaster to immediately
lay all such information before the State's Attorney of the
county in which such weigh house is situated, or the Mine
Inspector, for their action upon the same.
Section 206 of Article 1 and Section 160 of Article 12. That

List
to be kept.

it shall be the duty of every person acting as weighmaster in
any of the said mines, to keep in ink or indelible pencil a list
or statement of the number of mining cars, and the weight of
coal in car mined each day, and the person mining the same,
and place and keep said list at the weigh house, where said
coal is weighed, where the parties interested therein may
inspect it, wnich lists shall be kept for reference and inspec-
tion by all persons interested therein for at least thirty days'
time. And it shall be the duty of every operator to provide
correct and accurate scales, upon which all coal mined in said
mine shall be weighed in the State in which it is mined, before
the same shall be dumped or taken from the mine cars, in
in which the miners have loaded the same ; and no operator
shall dock any miner in excess of five hundred pounds (cwts.)
on any one car; and it shall be the duty of the operator to
cause the average weight of each empty car used in any such
mine to be plainly stamped on the outside of each car.

PROPPING AND CARE REQUIRED.

Propping and
care
required.

Section 207 of Article 1 and Section 161 of Article 12. That
the owner, lessee or agent of every mine in operation in the
counties of Allegany and Garrett shall furnish at their own
expense all props and all requisite timber required to be used