The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-09

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Vlded, and such token or evidence O
Indebtedness shall be presented 70
payment in cash only on such pay
days: Provided, that the employees il
this article provided for Shall be pait
regularly at least once in every thirt,
days,and at no pay day shall any oper
at0r withhold to exceed five days earn
lngs OF the operatives, any contract tC
the contrary Notwithstanding. Claw
1853, p. S3, Sec. !, amended.)
Sec. 645See. The employees of oper
| ators OF mines mentioned in this article
shall be regularly paid, at least once in
every thirty days. and at no payday
shall there be withheld of the earning.
OF any emplOye any sum to exceed the
amount due him for his labor for the
tour days next preceding any such pay,
day. And such operators shall, when.
ever demand therefor shall be made by
any employe, issue TO such employe u
due-blll for the amount due him up tu
the day of the demand, which due-bilI
shall be negotiable, whatever the form
thereof shall be, and shall be redeemed
by such operator in cash or its equiva-
lent at the option of the holder on any
payday II the same shall be presented
TOR redemption by any holder there
OF, and any such operator falling
or refusing to pay his employees,
or to issue to them his due bills
as in this section provided, shall
become Immediately liable to any such
employe III double the sum due such
employe at the time of such failure or
refusal, to be recovered by civil action
III the name of such employe in any
court OF competent jurisdiction OF the
state. And no employe within the
meaning of this article shall be deemed
to have waived any right accrning to
him under this section by any contract
he may make contrary to the provis-
ions hereof. (New section.)
ARTICLE H-sAFETY AND INSPECTION
OF MINES.
Sec. 645Sg. The owner, agent or
operator OF each and every mine in this
state, employing ten or more men, shall
make or cause to be made, at the dis
cretion OF the inspector or other person
acting I'm that capacity, an accurate
map or plan of the workings of such
mine and each and every vein thereof,
showing the general inclination of the
strata, together with any material de-
Elections in the said workings and the
boundary lines of said mine, and de-
post a true copy of said map or plan
with the clerk of the county court of
each county wherein NAV be located
the said mine; which said map or plan
shall be SO filed or deposited within
three months after the time when this
article shall take effect, and copy of
such map or plan shall also be kept for
inspection at the office of said mine;
and during the month of January of
each and every year, after this article
shall have taken effect, the said owner,
agent or operator shall furnish the in
spector and the clerk of the county
court as aforesaid with a statement,
and further map or plan of the pro.
gress OF the workings of such mine
continued from the last report TO the
end of the month of December next
preceding; and the inspector shall
correct his map or plan of said work.
ings in accordance with the statement
and map or plan thus furnished
and when any mine is worked out or
that fact shall be reported
to the inspector, and the map or plan
OF such mine In the office of the clerk
OF the county court shall be carefully
and verified. claws 1887, p.
PIG. Sec 2, amended.)
Sec. 645Sh. Whenever the owner.
agent or operator of any mine shall
neglect, fail or reIuse TO furnish the said
inspector and clerk as aforesaid with
the map or plan or addition
thereto, as provided in the first section
of this article, at the times and in the
manner therein provided, the said
Inspector is hereby authorized to cause
an accurate map or plan of the work
iDgs OF such mine to be made at the ex-
pense of the said owner, agent or opera
tor, aud the cost thereof may be recov-
cred by law from said owner, agent or
operator, in the same manner as other
debts, by suit in the name of the in.
spectOr and for his use. claws 1887,
p. PIG, Sec. 3, amended.)
Sec. 6458i. In all mines that arc
now, or have been in operation prior
to the first day of January, 1881, and
which are worked by or through "A
shaft, slope or drift, and IN which
more than ten miners are emDloued
IN each taUenty -four hours, if there is not
an escapement shaft to each
and every said mine, or communication
between each aud every mine and some
other contiguous mine, then there shall
be an escapement shaft or other com
such as shall be approved
by the mine inspector, making at least
two distinct means of ingress and
egress for all persons employed or per
United TO " Ork in such mine Such es
capement shaft or other communication
with contiguous mine aforesaid shall
be constructed in connection with every
vein or stratum of coal worked i'm sue
mine, and the time to be allowed for
uchcOnstructiOn shall be one year when
such mine is under one hundred (lOOl
eet i'll depth, two years when such
mine is over one hundred (1OO) feet
and under three hundred (3OO) feet.
and three Years when il is over three
(3O0) feet and under four hun
dred (4OO) feet, and tour years when il
IS over four hundred (400) feet in
tepth, and FIVE years for all mines over
live hundred (50O) feet, from the
lime this article goes into effect and IN
all cases where the working force of one
mine has been driven up to or into the
of another mine, the respect
I'VE owners of such mine, while 0per-
lting the same, shall keep open road
way mt least two and one half feet HIGH
aud four feet wide, thereby forming a
as contemplated in this
article, and for failure To do 80 shall
be subject to the penalty provided for
IN section 645Sd of this article, Tor each
and every day such roadway is unnee
essarily closed. Each and every such
IN escapement shaft shall be separated
rom the main shaft by such exicn. ot
natural strata as shall secure safety to
he men employed In such mines snch |
distance TO be left to tile judgment and !
discretion of the mine Inspector nr |
person acting in that capacity; and in |
Ill coal mines that shall 90 into opera
ion Tor the first time after the first day |
,t January, 1882. such nm cscaprm"nt
~ other communication with q Gontigu-
'us mine, a. aforesaid, shall bt con
within one year after such ,
nine shall have been put into opera