Reports of the Inspectors of Coal Mines of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania for the Year ... |
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Page 428 - An act relating to bituminous coal mines and providing for the lives, health, safety and welfare of persons employed therein," approved the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred eighty-five (PL, 205).
Page 427 - ... said board of examiners shall meet at the call of the inspector, and they shall grant certificates to all persons whose examination shall disclose their fitness for the duties of mining boss, and...
Page 423 - I have the honor herewith to submit to you my Annual Report as Treasurer, together with such informations and suggestions as seem to me worthy of your consideration.
Page 127 - Legislature, the present name was adopted, the conipan eing authorized at the same time to sell the canal and to purchase its own securities fc^^ inking fund purposes.
Page 265 - To the President of the University: SIR: — I have the honor to present to you the following report for the Department of the English Language and Literature during the year 1871-2: I.
Page 428 - ... person or persons appointed by the superintendent and mine foreman for that purpose. The person or persons making such examination shall have received a fire boss certificate of competency required by this act, and shall use no light other than that inclosed in a safety lamp while making said examination.
Page 133 - The road was opened from Scranton to Great Bend, October 20, 1851, and from Scranton to the Delaware River May 27, 1856. In 1868 it acquired control of the Morris and Essex Railroad, which now, with the Warren Railroad, forms this company's line to the Hudson.
Page 195 - Applicants for certificates of qualification as mine foremen and assistant mine foremen shall be citizens of the United States of good moral character and of known temperate habits, at least twenty-three years of age, and shall have had at least five years...
Page 94 - How men such as these [Sclavs] get their certificates, I do not know, but I do know that the law granting them was one of the worst pieces of legislation that was ever passed for this region, as it has driven competent miners coming to these coal fields away, as they refuse to labor for two years with this class of miners before they can have a place for themselves to work.
Page 429 - We are now in a position to give a more detailed account of the consequences the acknowledgement of corporeality has for the definition of types and their role in interaction. 1. Types are a function of what Merleau-Ponty calls the "corps habituel...