eighteen years, 33. 12. Penalty for above offences, 34.
13. Agents may be fined in certain cases in lieu of owners, 34.
14. Penalty on parents, &c., misrepresenting age, 34. 15. Males
under twelve years of age not to be employed in mines, &c.,
except in certain cases, 35. 16. Exception for boys between
ten and twelve who have certificates as to education and school
attendance, 36. 17. Penalty on grant of false certificates, 37.
18. Penalty for any other of the above offences, 37. 19. Agents
may be fined in certain cases, 37. 20. Penalty on parents, &c.,
misrepresenting ages, 38. 21. Steam engines in certain cases
not to be under charge of males less than eighteen years of
age, 38. 22. Who deemed in charge of horse windlass, 39.
23. The foregoing provisions extend to all mines in Great
Britain, 40. 24. Hiring by pit or colliery bond, 40.
25. Colliers or miners working contrary to contract or fraudu-
lently stacking coal, 53. 26. Accidents in mines, 57. 27. Com-
pensation to families of persons killed by accident

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CHAPTER V.

ON THE ABOLITION OF TRUCK, AND LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS AS TO
THE PAYMENT OF MINERS.

1. Abolition of Truck, 65. 2. Proprietors of mines, &c., not to pay
wages at public-houses, &c., 69. 3. Wages so paid recoverable
as if not paid, 70. 4. Penalty for wages paid at public-
houses, 70. 5. Agents may be fined for violating the above
provisions, 70. 6. Wages of persons employed in mines to be
paid in money, 71. 7. When payment of persons employed in
mines is by weight, an account may be taken.

CHAPTER VI.

ON THE ENFORCEMENT AND RECOVERY OF THE STATUTORY PENALTIES.
PENALTIES UNDER STAT. 1 & 2 WILL. 4, c. 37.

1. Penalties under 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 37

71

73

PENALTIES UNDER STAT. 5 & 6 VICT. c. 99.

2. Penalty for offences against 1, 2, 3, & 4 sections, 73. 3. Agents may be fined in certain cases for violating the above provisions, 74. 4. Definition of terms "owner, agent, &c." 74. 5. Summons, &c., need not set forth names of all the proprietors in cases of partnership, 75. 6. Service of summons on agent, &c., good, 75. 7. Recovery and application of penalties, 75. 8. On nonpayment of penalties, imprisonment, 76. 9. Inhabitants of parishes not incompetent as witnesses, 77. 10. Distress not unlawful for want of form, 77. 11. Appeal to quarter sessions, 78. 12. Convictions not removeable by certiorari

PENALTIES UNDER STAT. 23 & 24 VICT. c. 151.

13. Interpretation clause, 80. 14. Penalty for not assisting inspector's entry, examination, &c., 80. 15. Penalty for defacing notices, 81. 16. Penalty for offences under 23 & 24 Vict., c. 151, not otherwise provided for, 81. 17. Penalties how recoverable

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APPENDIX.

OF THE STATUTES RELATING TO MINE LABOUR AND MINE INSPECTION.

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81

AN

EXPOSITION OF THE STATUTES

5 & 6 VICT. CAP. 99, & 23 & 24 VICT. CAP. 151.
&c. &c. &c.

CHAPTER I.

A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE MINE INSPECTION.

IN consequence of the Reports of the Commissioners on the Employment of Children and Young Persons in Mines and Collieries, which were published during the year 1841, the Legislature, in the following session of Parliament (10th August, 1842), passed the statute 5 & 6 Vict. c. 99 (a), whereby the employment of women in mines and collieries was prohibited. The same Act also contained provisions regulating the employment of boys and apprentices therein; and also authorised and empowered any one of Her Majesty's principal secretaries of state to appoint, whenever he should think fit, a proper person to visit and inspect any mine or colliery of what nature or kind soever.

(a) See stat. Appendix, post, p. xxii.

B