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the part of the miners in not carrying on their coal
faces or walls in accordance with the plan pursued in
working the mine, or in not propping up and securing
the roof of the superincumbent strata, in those parts
of the workings under their care.

17. As removing falls from the roofs of drawing
    roadways and air-courses, repairing defects, and sup-
    porting loose strata, are within the roadsmen's duties,
    and as they are charged with the maintenance of all
    drawing roads and passages in the mine, they are
    enjoined to proceed with the greatest caution, both
    for their own safety and the successful execution of
    their duties. In their operations they must exercise
    the greatest care, and are required to prevent all other
    workmen coming near any defective places, or inter-
    fering with them when at work. They are required to
    undertake no repairs of unusual magnitude or danger
    without sufficient assistance, and until provided with
    every necessary material, which will be supplied to
    them by the Company on application to the mine
    manager. The progress of their work must be reported
    at the termination of every shift to the mine manager.

MINERS AND WORKMEN.

18. Every workman now or hereafter employed in
    any of the Company's works or workings, whether on
    surface or underground, shall be subject to these rules,
    a copy of which he will be required to sign on enter-
    ing the Company's employ; and shall obey the com-
    mands or instructions of the manager, or of the
    overman, if any, in charge of the mine or part of the
    mine in which he is working.

19. Miners and other workmen are expressly for-
    bidden to proceed towards or into their working-places
    at the commencement of any shift until it shall have
    been intimated to them by the foreman that the
    travelling roads and working-places have been ex-
    amined, and are apparently safe to enter.

20. Till such intimation of apparent safety shall
    have been made, miners and workmen shall either
    remain at the pit-head or mouth of the mine, or at
    some other place assigned to them for the purpose;
    if no such place shall have been assigned at which to
    remain, they shall always understand that the pit-head
    or mine-mouth, whichever it may in their case be, is
    the proper place at which they are required to wait
    the requisite intimation.

21. On beginning work at every shift, miners and

others shall be bound to satisfy themselves concern-
ing the safety of their working-places independently
of such intimation as aforesaid, and they shall there-
upon work at their appointed coal-faces or other work
continuously, industriously, and without unnecessary
intermission while the shift continues, and shall obey
the orders applicable to the safe and proper prosecu-
tion of the colliery works given them by the mine
manager, oversman, or other person for the time
being placed over them.

22. If, while at work or any other time, miners shall
    discover or be informed of the existence of any
    obstruction in the ventilation, or stagnation, or im-
    purity of the air of the mine, or of the existence of
    any defects in the walls, roof, or any other part of
    the mine, they shall be bound to give instant informa-
    tion to the mine manager, overman, or the person in
    charge of the mine for the time being, so that these
    defects may be remedied and danger therefrom
    averted.

23. Miners are expressly forbidden to go into or
    improperly near any place throughout the whole
    mine where danger is known or supposed to exist,
    except for the purpose of effecting repairs or other
    necessary work directed by the manager or his over-
    man. They are forbidden to continue working in
    any part of the coal-face where a sudden outburst of
    fire-damp shall happen, or where danger from any
    cause shall apparently threaten, until the same shall
    have been examined by the manager or overman in
    charge, and reported safe, or the impurity obviated.

24. The common but highly dangerous practice among
    miners of testing fire-damp escaping from a blower by
    igniting it with their lamps is peremptorily forbidden.

25. The Company will supply all timber required
    for the proper working of their mines, and deliver it
    in suitable quantities near the working-faces. Miners
    shall be bound to secure the roof, and also the working
    coal-faces, subject to the approval of the manager or
    overman, who, where the roof appears excessively
    dangerous, shall aid in securing the same.

26. If, from any accident or other cause, miners are
    at any time unable to find a sufficient supply of props
    when it is unsafe to continue their work without
    them, they are forbidden to remain at their working-
    faces; and no workman shall commence or continue
    to work in any place where he may consider the
    timber insufficient to support the roof of the mine,
    or discover any other cause that may render the
    place unsafe, until such defects have been put right
    by the person in charge.

DRAWERS, PUTTERS, AND DRIVERS.

27. Drawers, putters, and drivers shall not be per-
    mitted to approach or to enter the working-places
    until the miners shall have proceeded to work.
    Drawers shall carefully convey their loaded hutches
    to the pit-bottom or mine-mouth, and shall deliver
    the same at the place of delivery pointed out to them
    for the reception thereof, and shall place them
    securely, under the supervision of those appointed to
    take charge.

MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS.

28. As a matter of common safety, miners, drawers
    and all other workmen in the mine who shall observe
    or come to know of any defect in any road, roof, or
    air-course, or in any stopping or permanent or
    temporary brattice, or other appliances or work
    devised for making, maintaining, and promoting
    effective ventilation of the mine, are enjoined to give
    notice thereof to the manager or overman, or other
    person in charge, so that the same may be forthwith
    repaired or rectified.

29. In like manner every miner, drawer, and other
    workman engaged in the mine, who shall observe or
    come to know of any defect or flaw in the working
    machinery and gearing used in and about the mine,
    whereby the efficiency thereof may be impaired, shall
    be bound to communicate the same as above.

30. No workman shall, on any pretence whatever,
    be allowed to introduce into the mine any stranger,
    without the sanction of the mine manager.

31. Miners, drawers, and all others in the mine
    who shall have occasion to pass through any trap-
    door shall thereupon closely shut the same, and
    shall on no account leave it open. On discontinuing
    work at the end of a shift, and especially when no
    work is to be done in the mine on the following day,
    care must be taken by every workman closely to shut
    all trap-doors, and thereby allow of the proper
    current of air necessary for ventilation being con-
    stantly circulated.

32. All workmen are especially forbidden to throw
    into, deposit, or leave coal, wood, stone, rubbish, or
    materials of any kind in any air-course or road, so as
    to interfere with or hinder the air passing into and
    through the mine.

33. All workmen are prohibited from entering or
    remaining in any place throughout the whole mine
    where not absolutely required by duty at the time.

34. Miners and all others are prohibited from
    defacing or removing marks which may be made in