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no person shall go into any other part of the mine than where
he works, except by the order of the underviewer or his deputy,
or under the circumstances mentioned in the next rule.

30. The underviewer or his deputy shall, with a safety-lamp,
    once in every twenty-four hours if one shift is employed, and
    once in every twelve hours if two shifts are employed during
    any twenty-four hours, examine every travelling-road and
    working-place before the workmen and boys descend, and shall
    leave a mark or signal at each working-place showing the date
    of his examination; and if he find the roads and works well
    ventilated, and in other respects safe, he shall give the signal to
    the banksman for the men and boys to descend; but if danger
    from gas or any other cause be apprehended in any place, he
    shall immediately fix a danger-signal in all the entrances to
    such place. He must pay particular attention to the edges of
    the goaves and the gate end lips. He shall make a true report
    of the condition thereof, which shall be recorded without delay
    in a book to be kept at the mine for the purpose, and he shall
    sign the same.

31. If at any time it is found by the underviewer, or any
    person for the time being in charge of the mine or any part
    thereof, that by reason of noxious gases prevailing in such
    mine or such part thereof, or of any cause whatever, the mine
    or the said part is dangerous, every workman shall be withdrawn
    from the mine, or such part thereof as is so found dangerous;
    and a competent person, who shall be appointed for the
    purpose, shall inspect the mine or such part thereof as is so
    found dangerous; and, if the danger arises from inflammable
    gas, shall inspect the same with a locked safety-lamp, and in
    every case shall make a true report of the condition of such
    mine or part thereof; and a workman shall not, except in so far
    as is necessary for inquiring into the cause of danger, or for the
    removal thereof, or for exploration, be readmitted into the mine,
    or such part thereof as was so found dangerous, until the same
    is stated by such report not to be dangerous. Every such
    report shall be recorded in a book, which shall be kept at the
    mine for the purpose, and shall be signed by the person making
    the same.

32. The underviewer, under the direction of the manager,
    shall see that locked safety-lamps are used, and naked lights
    excluded wheresoever and whensoever danger from fire-damp is
    apprehended, and shall see that proper caution-boards or signals
    are placed and maintained for the purpose. He shall also
    examine the lamps, and shall immediately withdraw any that
    he may find unsafe.

33. The underviewer or other person appointed shall make a
    daily record of the readings of the barometer and thermometer,
    and use additional care with the ventilating apparatus and
    examination of the works during any unusual indication.

34. The deputy shall not allow workmen to pass a station-
    board until the workings beyond it have been properly examined,
    and he shall see that proper caution-boards are put up when
    necessary.

35. No person shall try for fire-damp with a naked light, or
    brush out or baffle gas. In places where safety-lamps are used
    no person shall use or have a naked light, or have in his posses-
    sion any apparatus either for smoking or striking a light.

36. Where safety-lamps are used they shall be used with the
    greatest care. Every person must examine his lamp to see that
    it is clean and securely locked on taking it from the lamp-
    keeper.

37. No one shall place a safety-lamp on the floor, except
    when holing, and in all cases at least two feet from the swing of
    the pick.

38. No one shall have in the mine any unlocked safety-lamp
    in his possession, or a key or any contrivance for opening the
    same, except properly-authorized persons.

39. No person shall work with his safety-lamp full of fire, or
    unlock or unscrew the same, or blow out the flame, or light
    tobacco or other substance at the gauze, or damage or improperly
    use the lamp.

40. When a person is using a safety-lamp, his putter or
    trammer must not bring a naked light into the place where a
    safety-lamp is used.

41. Whenever a lamp is rendered unsafe by oil being spilt
    on the gauze, or by any other injury, the person having such
    lamp shall put out the flame by drawing down the wick with a
    pricker, and deliver the lamp to the lampkeeper.

Furnacemen, Lampkeepers.

42. The ventilating furnace or apparatus shall not be left
    either day or night without the orders of the manager. In
    changing shifts a furnaceman shall not leave his furnace before
    the arrival of the furnaceman on the next shift. In case of
    sickness or lawful absence, a furnaceman must give early and
    sufficient notice to the manager, so that a substitute may be
    provided.

43. The lampkeeper must not deliver out a safety-lamp to be
    used that has less than twenty-eight parallel wires in an inch of
    the gauze, or which is not furnished with a proper lock and wire
    pricker. He must see that each safety-lamp, when given out
    for use, is in good working order, clean, well trimmed, securely

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locked, and that each Davy-lamp is protected by a shield; and
must not allow any greasy waste to accumulate in the lamp-
cabin, and must inform the underviewer whenever he finds that
a safety-lamp has been wilfully or negligently damaged, or care-
lessly used.

The following special rules shall be in force at every mine
where men are raised and lowered in any shaft:-

Manager.

44. The manager must see that the signals for moving the
    cages are painted upon a board and placed in a conspicuous
    position.

Underground Workmen and Boys.

45. During the time of the mine-drawing, every person in
    descending the shaft shall be under the direction of the banks-
    man, and in ascending the shaft shall be under the direction of
    the onsetter, and no other person than the banksman and on-
    setter shall give any signal during such time. No person shall
    get on or off the cage after the signal to go on has been given,
    nor until it has settled on the props or reached the bottom.
    No person shall take with him down or up the shaft, tools, rails,
    props, sprags, or other bulky materials, except for repairing the
    shafts. No person shall get on the cage after the number stated
    on the board at the pit-top and bottom are on. Every workman
    and boy shall leave the cage immediately when ordered to do so
    by the banksman or onsetter.

Banksman and Onsetter.

46. The head banksman, subject to the manager's or under-
    viewer's directions, shall have full control over the pit-top and
    all persons employed under him. The onsetter, subject to the
    manager's or underviewer's directions, shall have full control
    over the pit-bottom and all persons employed there. No person
    under the age of eighteen years shall have charge of the pit-top
    or bottom.

47. The head banksman or other appointed person shall be at
    the mine at the appointed time in the morning, and shall pro-
    vide a sufficient number of lights on the bank; and before the
    engine is started, and from time to time during the day, he
    shall see that the pulleys, ropes, cages, chains, and landing
    doors or frames are in safe working condition; and he shall not
    allow any person to descend the shaft until he has put the
    loaded tubs into the cage, and the ropes and loaded cages have
    been run up and down the shaft, and the ropes, chains, cap-
    pings, and cages carefully examined by him. If any weakness
    or defect is found in anything belonging to the pit-top, or in
    the engine or machinery, he must not permit any person to
    descend or ascend until it is made secure. The banksman shall
    also attend to the proper signals. The head banksman shall
    not allow any boy under thirteen to work on the bank excepting
    under the exceptions provided by the Act, and in that case only
    with an order from the manager.

48. The banksman in charge of the pit-top shall not let a
    stranger go down the shaft without the authority of the
    manager. The banksman, when he is informed of danger in
    the shaft, shall not allow any person to go down unless for the
    purpose of repairing the shaft. He shall not allow any intoxi-
    cated person to descend. He shall himself give the signals, and
    let no other than appointed persons land the corves or put them
    into the cages. He shall listen at the pit-top when any person
    is in the shaft, and instantly signal the engineman to stop the
    engine in case of alarm. He shall remain at the pit-top until
    all the men and boys are drawn out.

49. The banksman or onsetter shall not let a boy under sixteen
    years of age go down or up the shaft unless accompanied by a
    man, and shall not permit more than the number of persons
    stated on the board at the pit-top and bottom to descend or
    ascend at one time. The banksman and onsetter shall not allow
    a person to go down or up against a loaded cage in the same
    shaft unless it it is bratticed, and shall not allow any person to
    take with him rails, props, sprags, tools, tubs, or other bulky
    materials, or to get on or off the cage until it has settled upon
    the props or reached the pit-bottom. The banksman shall send
    all tools down the shaft in a tub or tram, and props, rails,
    brattice-boards, and other bulky materials shall be tied securely
    to the cage or rope by the banksman or onsetter when being
    sent down or up the shaft. If a rope is working in the shaft
    for underground planes, no person shall ride in the cage whilst
    this is running unless the rope be cased.

50. The head banksman shall see that the fencing is placed
    securely round the top of every shaft when it is not at work.

51. The onsetter shall be in the mine at the appointed time
    in the morning. He shall be at his station to give signals and
    perform his other duties under these rules, and he shall remain
    there to see the men and boys all safely into the cage and up
    the shaft at the close of the day.

52. The onsetter shall report to the underviewer any person
    that gives a signal or disobeys his directions. He shall remain
    at the bell-handle and give cautionary signals, if necessary,
    when any person ascends or descends the shaft: he shall only
    allow appointed persons to put tubs into or take them out of