June 1, 1911, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending May 31, 1911, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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For the payment of the salaries of the inspectors of coal mines, as provided by law, two years, the sum of $275,000.

For the payment of the salaries of inspectors of coal mines, appointed temporarily as substitutes in case of disability of any of the regular inspectors, two years, the sum of $5,000.

For the payment of the actual traveling expenses of the inspectors, and for their office rent, stationery, postage, telegrams, express charges, instruments, typewriters, furniture, and all other actual and necessary expenses, two years, the sum of $56,350.

1913.

LAWS 1913, 755, P. 780.

JULY 16, 1913.

AN ACT to provide for the ordinary expenses of the executive, judicial and legislative departments of the Commonwealth.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:
That the following sums

are hereby specifically appropriated to the several objects hereinafter named, for the two fiscal years commencing on June 1, 1913, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending May 31, 1913, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2.

For the payment of the salaries of the inspectors of coal mines, as provided by law, two years, the sum of $306,000, subject to the approval by the governor of senate bill creating additional inspectors. (Approved in the sum of $294,000.)

For the payment of the salaries of inspectors of coal mines, appointed temporarily as substitutes in case of disability of any of the regular inspectors, two years, the sum of $5,000. (Approved in the sum of $3,000.)

For the payment of the actual traveling expenses of the inspectors, and for their office rent, stationery, postage, telegrams, express charges, instruments, typewriters, furniture, and all other actual and necessary expenses, two years, the sum of $65,000.

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For the payment of the deficiency in the mine inspectors' salary fund, for the two fiscal years ending May 31, 1913, the sum of $1,118.74.

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For the payment of the deficiency in the mine inspectors' traveling expense fund, for the two fiscal years ending May 31, 1913, the sum of $6,500.

1915.

APPROPRIATION ACTS 1915, 33, P. 55.

JUNE 16, 1915.

AN ACT to provide for the ordinary expenses of the executive, judicial and legislative departments of the Commonwealth, etc.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That the following sums

are hereby specifically appropriated to the several objects hereinafter named, for the two fiscal years commencing June 1, 1915, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending May 31, 1915, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2.

For the payment of the salaries of the inspectors of coal mines, as provided by law, two years, the sum of $330,000. (Approved in the sum of $323,000.) For the payment of the increase in the salaries of mine inspectors, the sum of $20,000, conditioned upon the passage and approval by the governor of house bill number 1506.

For the payment of salaries of inspectors of coal mines, appointed temporarily as substitutes in case of disability of any of the regular inspectors, two years, the sum of $1,000.

For the payment of the actual traveling expenses of the inspectors, and for their office rent, stationery, postage, telegrams, express charges, instruments, typewriters, furniture, and all other actual and necessary expenses, two years, the sum of $72,000. (Approved in the sum of $68,000.)

For the payment of the salaries and expenses of the twenty-one assistant mine inspectors, as provided for in senate bill number 1080, conditioned upon its passage by the legislature and approval by the governor, two years, the sum of $100,000. (Not approved.)

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For the payment of expert electrical service, in connection with the installation of electrical equipment in mines, two years, the sum of $2,000. (Approved in sum of $1,000.)

1917.

APPROPRIATION ACTS 1917, 41, P. 64.

JULY 16, 1917.

AN ACT to provide for the ordinary expenses of the executive, judicial and legislative departments of the Commonwealth, etc.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:
That the following sums

are hereby, specifically appropriated to the several objects hereinafter named, for the two fiscal years commencing on June 1, 1917, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending May 31, 1917, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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For the payment of the salaries of the inspectors of coal mines, as provided by law, two years, the sum of $350,000.

For the payment of the salaries of inspectors of coal mines, appointed temporarily as substitutes in case of disability of any of the regular inspectors, two years, the sum of $1,000.

For the payment of the actual traveling expenses of the inspectors, and for their office rent, stationery, postage, telegrams, express charges, instruments, typewriters, furniture, and all other actual necessary expenses, two years, the sum of $70,000.

For the payment of expert electrical service in connection with the installation of electrical equipment in the mines, two years, the sum of $1,000.

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For the payment of a deficiency in the amount necessary to pay the expenses of the inspectors of coal mines for the two years ending May 31, 1917, $2,500.

INSTITUTIONS FOR INSTRUCTION IN MINING.

CITIES GIVEN AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH.

LAWS 1903, P. 314.

APRIL 25, 1903.

AN ACT authorizing the councils of any city of this Commonwealth, with the approval of the mayor or recorder thereof, to establish scientific, educational and economic institutions, and to create boards of trustees for the government of each institution. SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That the city councils of any city, with the approval of the mayor or recorder thereof, may establish in such city institutions authorized to collect and hold certain educational and economic collections, the object of each being the scientific, educational and economic instruction of the public concerning commerce, manufacturing, mining and agriculture; said institutions to have power to purchase or accept by gift any real estate, money or personal property necessary for their use and promotion, and power to use, convey or transfer the same, as if they were bodies corporate, to be governed by boards of trustees, nominated, appointed and confirmed in such manner as the city councils may determine.

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INSURANCE SURFACE SUBSIDENCE OVER MINES.

DAMAGES BY CAVING IN OF SURFACE.

LAWS 1913, P. 333.

MAY 23, 1913. A SUPPLEMENT to an act approved June 1, 1911, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of fire and marine insurance companies, and for the regulation of home and foreign fire and marine insurance companies."

NOTE. The original act makes no provision as to mine insurance, and has no relation to mines or mining and is not given.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.:

That any fire, or fire and marine, insurance company, heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, or authorized to transact business therein, in addition to the powers heretofore granted by law, shall have power to insure against loss or damage caused by the caving in of the surface of the earth above coal mines; but nothing in this act shall be deemed as rendering any such company liable for any such loss or damage unless liability therefor shall be expressly assumed in the policy of insurance.

SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are repealed.

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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.: That if any owner or owners of land, mills, quarries, coal mines, lime kilns, or other real estate, in the vicinity of any railroad, canal or slack water navigation, made or to be made by any company, or by the State of Pennsylvania, and not more than three miles distant therefrom, shall desire to make a railroad thereto over any intervening lands, he or they, their engineers, agents, and artists, may enter upon any lands, and survey and mark such route as he or they shall think proper to adopt, doing no damage to the property explored, and thereupon may present a petition to the court of common pleas of the county in which said intervening land is situated, setting forth his or their desire to be allowed to construct and finish a railroad, in and upon the said route, and the beginning, courses, and distances thereof, and place of intersection of the main railroad, canal, or slackwater navigation, which shall be filed and entered of record in the said court, whereupon the said court shall appoint six disinterested and judicious men, resident in the said county, who shall view the said marked and proposed route for a railroad, and examine the same, and if they or any four of them shall deem the same necessary and useful for public or private purposes, they shall report in writing to the subsequent term of said court, what damages will be sustained by the owner or owners of the said intervening land, by the opening, constructing, completing and using the said railroad, and the report of the said viewers and appraisers shall be filed of record in the said court, and if not appealed from, be liable to be confirmed or rejected by the said court, as to right and justice shall appertain; and if either of the parties shall be dissatisfied with said report, he or they may appeal therefrom to the said court of common pleas within twenty days after such report has been filed in the prothonotary's office, and not after; and after such appeal, either party may put the cause at issue, in the form approved of by the court, and the said issue shall be placed first on the trial list of the next regular term of the said court, and be there tried and determined by the court and jury, and the verdict so rendered, and judgment thereon, shall be final and conclusive, without further appeal or writ of error, and it shall be the duty of the said viewers and jury to take into consideration the advantages which may be derived by the owner or owners of land, passed by the said railroad, when making up their report or forming their verdict thereon.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said court shall tax and allow such fees to the viewers and appraisers and officers of the court as are chargeable for such services under the existing fee bills,