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Abercarn aforesaid agent or manager agent or operator air-ways apparatus apply appointed approved Author barometer blasting blown-out shot brattice cage carbonic acid cause certificate charge Clanny coal mines coal-dust coal-mines colliery Commission competent comply connection court damp mines danger Davy lamp deemed dust duties electric escapement shaft examination experiments feet fire fire-damp flame furnished gases goaves guilty hereby hoisting hole hundred dollars inflammable injury inquest inspec inspection inspector of mines less lessee light lime-cartridge machinery malfeasance in office map or plan marsh-gas means miners mining engineer Mueseler Mueseler lamp necessary nitro-glycerine notice occurred offence operator or superintendent owner or agent person or persons persons employed practical pressure purpose rape oil roof safe safety safety-lamps seam Secretary secure shaft or slope SIR FREDERICK ABEL special rules strata sufficient thereof timber tion ventilation weighing workmen
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Page 343 - Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the employment of a seamstress by any family for manufacturing articles for such family use. None of...
Page 350 - ... without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal...
Page 308 - ... sureties, conditioned personally to try such appeal, and to abide the judgment of the Court thereon, and to pay such costs as may be awarded by the Court, or...
Page 349 - By the statute in question it is provided that "no employee shall be required, or permitted, to work in a biscuit, bread, or cake bakery, or confectionery establishment, more than sixty hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in any one day...
Page 274 - For any injury to person or property, occasioned by any willful violations of this act or willful failure to comply with any of its provisions, a right of action shall accrue to the party injured for any direct damages sustained thereby...
Page 328 - ... is endangered, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Page 268 - ... two separate outlets, separated by natural strata of not less than one hundred feet in breadth, by which shafts or outlets distinct means of ingress and egress are always available to the persons employed in the mine, but...
Page 381 - ... deemed to have been served at the time when a letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Page 232 - State, and the works and machinery belonging thereto at all reasonable times, by night or day, but so as not to unnecessarily obstruct or impede the working of the mine, and the owner or agent of such mine is hereby required to furnish the means necessary for such entry and inspection; of which inspection the inspector shall make a record...
Page 385 - ... if at any meeting the chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same the directors present shall choose some one. of their number to be chairman of such meeting.