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us constitute a .vital change in the
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AMENDMENTS TO MINES INSPEC
TION ACT.
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(S. B. 23.)
AN ACT to repeal Section Eight of
Chapter Seventy-two of the Session
Iiftws of Alaska for 1913, entitled,
‘‘An Act to divide the Territory into
mine inspection districts; to estab
lish the office of mine inspector; to
prescribe the duties, powers, quali
fications and compensation thereof;
to regulate the operation of mines in
the Territory of Alaska; to provide
for the health and safety of mine
workers in the Territory; to declare
the violation of any of the provisions
hereof a misdemeanor and prescrib
ing punishment therefor,” approved
April 3(1, 1913, to amend Sections One
and Two thereof; to add Sections
Eight to Thirty, inclusive, prescrib
ing further duties and powers for
Territorial and Federal Mine In
spectors; and to repeal all acts and
parts of acts inconsistent or in con
flict herewith.
He it enacted by the l-egislnturo of the
Territory of Alaska:
Section 1. That Section Eight (8) of
Chapter Seventy-two of the Session
Daws of Alaska for 1913, entitled, “An
Act to divide the Territory into mine
inspection districts: to establish the of
fice of mine inspector; to prescribe the
duties, powers, qualifications and com
pensation thereof; to regulate the op
eration of mines in the Territory of
Alaska; to provide for the health and
safety of mine workers in the Terri
tory; to declare the violation of. any
of the provisions hereof a misdemeanor
and prescribing punishment therefor,”
approved April 30, 1913, be, and the
same hereby is, repealed.
Section 2. That Section One (1) of
Raid Chapter Seventy-two of the Ses
sion laws of Alaska for 1913, be
amended by striking out in lines 9, 6.
7 and 8 thereof the words "and he shall
be under the supervision and subject
to the instructions of the federal mine
inspectors now appointed as provided
by law."
Section 3. That Section Two 121 of
said Chapter Seventy-two of the Ses
sion Daws of Alaska for 1913, he
amended by striking out in line three
(3) of said section the words “federal
mine inspector or the”. Provided, how
ever, that the exercise of the jurisdic
tion of the Territorial Mine Inspector
or Inspectors, shall be subject to the
revision and review of the Governor of
the Territory of Alaska, and that
through him an appeal may be taken
subject to the review and revision by
the U. S. Bureau of Mines.
Section 4. That the following sec
tions be, and they are hereby, added to
said Chapter Seventy-two of the Ses
sion haws of Alaska for 1913:
“Section 8. DEFINITIONS: That
the term ‘mine,’ when used in this Act
shall Include any and all parts of any
mine within the Territory, and any
mining plant or equipment connected
therewith underground or on the sur
face, which contributes, or may con
tribute, to the mining of ore, coal or
other metalliferous or non-metallifer
ous mineral product.
That the term "operator," when used
in this Act, shall mean the person, firm,
association, company or corporation in
immediate possession of any thine or
mining claim, or accessories thereof, as
owner or lessee thereof, and as such,
responsible for the management and
condition thereof.
That the words “evacuation” and
“workings." when used in this Act,
signify any or all parts of a mine ex
cavated, including shafts, tunnels, en
tries, winzes, raises, stopes, open-cuts,
and all working places, whether aban
doned or in use.
"Section 9. JURISDICTION OF IN
SPECTORS: That the jurisdiction of
the mine inspectors shall cover all
branches of mining shaft-sinking, tun
neling, quarrying, and dredging, and
the machinery Incident to the reduc
tion of ores or the treatment of the
material: provided, however, that such
jurisdiction shall apply only to the
safety of the workers employed in such
mining, shaft-sinking, tunneling
quarrying and dredging and around
machinery incident to the reduction ol
• ores nnd treatment of the material.
Provided, however, that the Territorial
Mine inspector shall have no jurisdic
tion tinder this Act over coal mines tr
be worked under lease front the Unltec'
States government.
"Section 9%. The Federal Minim
Inspector or Inspectors shall have au
thority in the absence of the Territoria
Mining Inspector, to enforce the pro
visions of this Act. In all such cases
the Federal Mining Inspetcor shall re
port in detail to tho Governor of the
Territory of Alaska all cases wherein
he has invoked the nid of the Terri
torial Mine Inspection Act.
‘•Section 10. STATISTICAL RE
CORDS: That the mine inspector
shall distribute blank forms, requiring
statistics of accidents, labor and pro
duction or such other infoAnatlon as
the Governor may require, which shall
be illled In and returned to tho main
inspector's office, to "be made and used
under the same conditions and re
strictions as now required by the IT. S.
Geological Survey and the T'. S. llureau
of Mines, by the persons in charge of
mines or mine workings, on or before
the 31st day of December each year.
‘‘Section 11. SANITATION: That In
any working mine, the inspector may
require a sufficient number of portable,
water-tight privies to be provided for
the underground employees, such pri
vies to he taken to the surface and
cleaned every twenty-fo\ir hours.
“Section 12. GUARDS FOR DAN
GEROUS MACHINERY: That any
owner, lessee, agent, operator, manager
nr superintendent of any mine, mill,
tunnel, shaft, quarry or metallurgical
works, wherein laborers are employed,
,or machinery used, shall provide and
maintain reasonable safe-guards for all
cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, coup
lings, set-screws, conveyors, vats, rolls,
and machinery of other or similiar de
scription w'hich it is practicable to
guard, and which can be effectively
guarded with due regard to the ordi
nary use of such machinery and ap
pliances and to tile employees there
from, and with which the employees of
any such mine, mill, tunnel, shaft,
quarry, dredge, or metailuriglcal works
are to come In contact while in the per
formance of their duties: and if any
machinery or any part thereof, is Ir.
a defective condition and its operation
would lie extra hazardous because of
such defect, or if any machinery Is not
safeguarded as provided for in this
Act, the use thereof is prohibited and
a notice to that effect shall be attached
thereto by the employer immediately
upon receiving notice of such defect nr
lack of safe-guard, and such notice
shall not lie removed until such defect
has been remedied or machine safe
guarded as herein provided.
“Section 13. SAFETY OF SHAFTS:
la) That when any shaft is sunk on
any vein or ore chute, or body of ore,
or any shaft sunk for the purpose of
mining ore, a pillar of ground sh ill lie
left standing on each side of the shaft
of sufficient dimensions to protect and
secure the same, and in no case shall
stoping be permitted up to or within
such proximity to the shaft as to ren
der the same insecure, until such time
as the shaft is to lie abandoned, when
said pillar may be withdrawn.
lb) All abandoned mine-shafts, pits,
or other excavations, endangering the
life of man or beast, shall he securely
covered or fenced.
“Section 11. LADDER WAYS: That
every shaft, winze, raise or incline of
steeper slope than forty degrees from
the horizontal, and deeper than forty
feet, through which men are obliged to
travel, shall be provided with a ladder
way. Suitable ladd ers, or footways,
shall be provided to connect floors or
sets in stopes and other places re
quiring communication in mines. Every
mine shall have in addition to any me
chanical means of ingress or egress, at
least one proper ladder or footway
communicating from the lowest work
ings of the mine to the surface.
That permanent ladilerways. used
for ascent nr descent of persons in the
mine, shall be sufficiently strong for
the purpose demanded, and shall be
firmly fastened and kept in good epalr.
In a vertical shaft, the mine inspector
may, at his discretion, by an order in
writing, direct that the ladder shall be
inclined at the most convenient angle
which the space in which the ladder is
fixed allows, and every such ladder
shall have a platform at Intervals of
not more than fifty (50) nor less than
twenty (20) feet. The said platforms
shall be closely covered, with the ex
ception of an opening large enough to
permit the passage of a man, and shall
be so arranged that by no means could
a. person fall from one ladder, through
the opening to the next ladder. This,
shall not apply to placer mines.
"Setcion 10. PASSAGEWAYS
AROUND SHAFTS. GUARD RAILS
FOR SHAFT STATIONS, ETC.: That
all stations or levels shall have a pas
sageway around the working shaft so
(hat crossing over the hoisting core
partments may be avoided. All sumps
shall be securely planked over. At all
shaft stations a gate or guard rail must
lie provided and kept in place across
the shaft, except when cage, skip or
bucket is being loaded: but this pro
hibition shall not forbid the temporary
removal of the gate or ail for the pur
pose of repairs or other operation0. If
the proper precautions to prevent dan
I ger to persons, are taken. This drill
not apply to underground placer min
ing.
(To be continued.)
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