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lation of such Bureau, to conduct frequent inspections of all
scales, measuring instruments, cars, and containers, and to
determine their condition, accuracy, correct branding, weight,
use and operation, to assure the proper use thereof and the
competency of any person authorized to use them.

SEC. 156. The operator of every coal mine where miners
are paid by measurement, shall provide and maintain at such
mine a standard measure, approved by the Bureau, with which
all cars or other containers of coal shall be checked and their
respective capacities be determined and plainly branded there-
on, subject to approval by the Bureau.

SEC. 157. Any person or persons having or using any
scale, measure, car, container or other instrument for the
purpose of determining the amount of product and result-
ing compensation of any workman employed in or about any
such mine, who shall knowingly or of gross negligence so
arrange, construct or operate any such instrument that an
incorrect determination and compensation may be reported,
or shall make or permit to be made an incorrect and fraudu-
lent record and account thereof, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor; and every day any such instrument is so arranged,
constructed, or operated to obtain such incorrect determination,
or such incorrect and fraudulent record and account is made
or permitted to be made, shall be a separate offense...

SEC. 158. It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent
to cheat or defraud, to place upon any car or other container
loaded by any other person a number or check number; or
with such intent to change, exchange, substitute, alter or re-
move any such number or check number; and any such act shall
be a misdemeanor.

SEC. 159. Every operator of any such mine shall make pay-
ment in lawful money of the United States semi-monthly

to his employees, laborers and wageworkers, or to their au-
thorized agents, at their respective places of employment, at
intervals of not more than seventeen days. In case any such
operator shall refuse to pay at the times above set forth to
his employees, laborers or wageworkers the wages due them,
or any of them, said operator shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 160. Whenever an operator of any mine in this
State discharges an employee, all wages due such employee and
unpaid at the time of discharge shall become due and payable
immediately.