Certified

copy of

to be evi

dence.

contributed to occasion the accident, or to any person or persons not being the offender or offenders, who may have sustained personal injury occasioned by such accident or offence as he may think fit; and, save as aforesaid, all penalties imposed by this Act shall, when recovered, be paid into the receipt of Her Majesty's exchequer in such manner as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may direct, and shall be carried to and form part of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.

XXVI. A copy of the special rules for the time being special rules established in any coal mine, colliery, or ironstone mine, certified under the hands of one of the inspectors to be a copy of the special rules established in such coal mine, colliery, or ironstone mine, shall be evidence of such special rules, and of their being duly established under this Act, without further proof, and such inspector shall certify such copy when required.

Reports of inspectors to

be laid before Parlia

ment.

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mines, or his representative, in

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XXVII. Every inspector shall on or before the 1st day of March in every year make a separate and distinct report in writing of his proceedings during the preceding year, and shall transmit the same to one of Her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, and a copy of such report shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament.

XXVIII. The wages of each and every person employed in any coal mine, colliery, or ironstone mine shall be paid to him or his representative authorised or deputed to that effect by his immediate employer in money at an office to be appointed for that purpose in the special rules for such mine or colliery, and such office shall not be contiguous to any house where spirits, wine, beer, or other spirituous liquors are sold; and every owner, or agent, or such employer, who shall pay or permit any wages to be paid contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding 101.

XXIX. Where the persons employed in any coal mine, colliery, or ironstone mine, are paid by the weight,

mines is by

may be

measure, or gauge of the coal, ironstone, or other mate- ployed in rial gotten by them, such coal, ironstone, or other mate- weight, &c., rial shall be truly weighed, measured, or gauged accord- an account ingly; and it shall be lawful for such persons at their taken. own cost, to station a person (being one of the persons for the time being employed in such coal mine, colliery, or ironstone mine) at the place appointed for such weighing, measuring, or gauging, in order to take an account thereof, and to take an account of the weight, measure, or gauge used therein on behalf of such persons by whom he is so employed; but such person so employed shall not be authorised in any way to impede or interrupt the working of the coal mine, colliery, or ironstone mine, or interfere with the weighing, measuring, or gauging, but shall only be authorised to take such account as aforesaid; and the absence of such person shall not be a reason for delaying or interrupting such weighing, measuring, or gauging.

XXX. This Act shall not extend to Ireland.

XXXI. This Act shall commence from the 31st day of December, 1860.

Extent of
Act.

Commence-
ment of Act.

INDEX.

A.

Accidents, notice to inspector of, 11, 28, 29, 30, xlvi, xlvii; principles
of law affecting, 57-62; compensation to families on death by
accidents, 63, 64; how action brought, 63, 64.

Act, commencement of, 23 & 24 Vict. c. 151: 3,7, n. (e), li.
Age, penalty for misrepresenting, 25, 34, 38, xxv.
Airpits, to be fenced, 15, xxxvii.

Agent. See "Mines,” “Truck.” Definition under 5 & 6 Vict. c. 99, 32,
n (t), xxvii; ditto under 23 & 24 Vict. c. 151: 31, n. (q), xxxvi;
to assist inspectors under stat. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 99-2, 5, xxiv;
general rules for guidance of, 2, 3, 14, xxxvii; penalty for neglect
of, 15, 16, xlviii; cannot be mine inspector, 8, xxxvii; to assist
inspectors under stat. 23 & 24 Vict. c. 151: 9, xliv, xlix ; penalty
for not assisting, 12, xlix; to give notice of death or accident, 2,
11, 25, 27, 29, xlvi; penalty, 30, xlvi; to give notice of opening,
abandoning, or discontinuing, mines, 11, 25, 26, xlvii; to publish
rules, 16, 17, xliii; penalty for working mines without publication,
17, 23, xlviii; penalty for working mines without special rules, 18,
23, xlviii; penalty for neglect of special rules, 23, 24, xlviii; not
to act as justice in certain cases, 24, xlix; to produce maps and
plans, 10, 11, 25, 27, xlv; penalty on nonproduction, 25, 27, 29,
xlix; must mark workings on maps or plans, 27, xlv, xlvi; to
receive notice of danger, 28, xliv; proceedings thereon, 28, 29,
xlv; agent may be summoned, or in lieu of owner, 32, 33, 34, 37,
xiii; agent of mine, owner, not to be adjudicating justice under
stat. 23 & 24 Vict. c. 151: 24, xlix.

Appeal. See "Quarter Sessions."

Apprentices, enactment as to employment in mines, 1; the apprentice-
ship of females void, 31, 32, xxi; penalty for taking such
apprentices, 32, xxiv; agents may be summoned, &c., in lieu of
owners, 32, 33, xxvii; persons under 10 not to be apprenticed,
nor for longer than 8 years, 33, xxiv; boys' apprentice indentures
to the contrary void, 33, xxiv, 34; penalty, 34, xxiv; agents may
be summoned, &c., in lieu of owners, 34, xxvii; penalty on parents
misrepresenting ages, 34, 35, xxv.

Arbitrators. See "Rules." Not to be inspector, 8, xxxvii.
Artificers, definition of, under Truck Act, 64, n. (a), xii, xv.
Ass, colliers after contract not to keep, 49.

B.

Bank Notes; wages may be paid in, under Truck Act, in certain cases,
v, vi.

Barrowman, usually bound by pit bond, 41.

Beer-shop, wages not to be paid at, 69, xxvi; penalty for so doing, 69,
70, xxvii.

Boiler, steam-boiler to have steam gauge, water gauge, and safety valve,
15, xxxviii.

Bore-holes to be made in advance of certain workings, 15, xxxviii.
Boys. See "Apprentice," " Certificate," "Males."

Break, winding engine to have, 15, xxxviii.

Brother of mine owner not to be adjudicating justice under stat. 23 &
24 Vict. c. 151: 24, xlix.

Buildings may be inspected under 5 & 6 Vict. c. 99: 5, xxiii, and under
23 & 24 Vict. c. 151, 9, xliii.

C.

Cages for lowering persons to have a sufficient cover, 15, xxxviii.
Calamine mines may be inspected under under stat. 5 & 6 Vict.
c. 99, 6.

Casing, shaft to have, in certain cases, 15, xxxviii.

Certificate. See "Mines." School and education certificate required for

boys between 10 and 12: 8, 36, 37, xxxiv; owner must file them,
37, xxxiv, penalty on grant of false certificates, 37, xxxiv; agents
may be fined in certain cases, 37, 38, xxvii.

Chain, no single link chain to be used, except in certain cases, 15,
xxxviii.

Clay, the working, &c., of, within the Truck Act, xiii.