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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

miners engaged in any of said mines to carefully prop and
timber all rooms, headings and other excavations wherein they
may be working, as close up to their work as may be reason-
ably practicable, so as to guard, as far as practicable, against
all accidents from falls of roof, side or breast, coal or slate,
earth or other surrounding matter, and any miner or other
person employed or working in or about said mines who shall
be guilty of any wilful negligence in respect of any of the
matters specified in this section, whereby the lives, health or
safety of any co-laborers in and about any of said mines, or
any of the property of the owners in or about said mines may
be lost, destroyed or injured, or unnecessarily jeopardized,
shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction, to be fined
as hereinafter provided ; and whenever in any case it shall be
brought to the notice of the Mine Inspector that any person is
violating any of the provisions of this section, he shall at once
order such person to take immediate steps to secure the safety
of the person or property so jeopardized, and in case of the
refusal of any person to comply with such order, it shall be
the duty of said inspector to proceed at once to have such
offender arrested and punished in accordance with the pro-
vision of this Act.

209 of Article one, and 163 of Article 12." That the
grand juries that may be hereafter summoned by the Circuit
Courts for Allegany and Garrett counties are hereby author-

Grand juries
authorized
to summon
Inspector
before
them.

ized and empowered to summon said inspector before them,
then at each term of court in said counties, and to examine
into and take cognizance of the conduct of any Mine Inspec-
tor appointed under this Act, and in case any grand jury of
either Allegany or Garrett counties shall at any time recom-
mend in their report that any Mine Inspector appointed under
the provisions of this Act should be removed from his office
for misbehavior therein, neglect of duty, incompetency or ina-
bility through any cause to act, then, and in such case the
clerk of the Circuit Court in which such report is filed shall
forthwith transmit a copy of the same, certified under the seal
of the court, to the Governor of Maryland, who upon receipt
of the same, shall at once remove such Mine Inspector and
proceed to appoint some other person to the office in his stead,
to serve until the appointment of his successor as hereinbefore
provided.

"209 A of Article 1, and 164 of Article 12." That it shall
be lawful, however, notwithstanding the provisions of this
Act, in relation to weigh-master and the weighing of coal, for