EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 821

the number of persons employed in each mine, the extent to
which the law is obeyed and progress made in the improve-
ments of mines, the number of serious accidents and the na-
ture thereof, the number of deaths resulting from injuries
received in or about the mines, with the cause of such acci-
dent or death; which record completed to the first day of May
of each and every year shall be filed with the State Board of
Labor and Statistics, and one thousand copies of said report
shall be printed for distribution at once by the said Board,
and the cost thereof shall be paid by the Treasurer upon the
warrant of the Comptroller.

Section 199 of Article 1, and Section 153 of Article 12.
In case the Inspector becomes incapacitated to perform the
duties of his office or receives a leave of absence from the said
Board, it shall be the duty of the said Board to appoint, upon
said Mine Inspector's application, or that of five miners or
five operators, some competent person to fill the office of In-
spector until the said Inspector shall be able to resume the
duties of his office, and the person so appointed shall be paid
in the same manner as hereinbefore provided for the Inspector
of Mines.

Section 209Q of Article 1, and Section 164P of Article 12.
In this Act the term "coal mine" includes the shafts, slopes,
adits, drifts or incline planes connected with excavations pene-
trating coal stratum or strata, which excavations are venti-
lated by one general air current or divisions thereof, and con-
nected by one general system of mine railroads over which
coal may be delivered to one or more common points outside
the mine when such is operated by one operator.

Sub-Section A. The term "excavations and workings" in-
cludes all the excavated parts of a mine, those abandoned as
well as the places actually being worked, also all underground
workings and shafts, tunnels and other ways and openings, all
such shafts, slopes, tunnels and other openings in the course of
being sunk or driven, together. with all roads, appliances,
machinery and material connected with the same below the
surface.

Sub-Section B. The term "shaft" means a vertical opening
through the strata, and which is and may be used for the pur-
pose of ventilation or drainage, or for hoisting men or mate-
rial, or both, in connection with the mining of coal.