UNITED STATES. Control.-The Attorney-General of the United States has control and management of United States prisons, and appoints superintendents and other officials in charge thereof. Systems of employment.-The State-use system is prescribed. Regulations.-Designated employments are the manufacture of articles and the production of supplies for use within the prisons, the manufacture of such Government supplies as can be produced without the use of machinery, the construction and repair of the buildings and inclosures of the prison and the making of the necessary materials therefor, and the cultivation and care of the prison grounds and farm. Goods. The importation of any article, the product in whole or in part of convict labor, is prohibited. Source: Compiled Statutes of 1901, pages 1626, 3726, 3731. SEAMEN. The following is a list of the laws relating to the employment of seamen. These laws are omitted for the reasons given in the introduction: Alabama.-Code of 1907, sections 4951 to 4957. California.-Civil Code, sections 2049 to 2064; Penal Code, sections 644, 645. Georgia.-Penal Code of 1895, sections 649 to 656. Louisiana.-Revised Laws of 1897, sections 945, 3475, 3478. Maine.-Revised Statutes of 1903, chapter 127, section 17. Maryland.-Public General Laws of 1903, article 84, sections 1 to 7. North Carolina.-Revisal of 1905, sections 3555, 3556. North Dakota.-Revised Codes of 1905, sections 5598 to 5616. Washington.-Codes and Statutes of 1897, sections 7319, 7320. CHAPTER II. LABOR LAWS. ALABAMA. CODE OF 1907. Mine regulations. SECTION 999. There shall be appointed by the governor of Alabama three inspectors of coal mines; one of them shall be designated as chief mining inspector, and the other two shall be designated as associate mining inspectors. Each shall hold his office for three years from the date of his employment and until his successor is appointed and qualified. SEC. 1000. The salary of the chief inspector shall be one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and the salary of each of the associate inspectors shall be one thousand two hundred dollars per annum. Inspectors. Salaries. Qualifica SEC. 1001. The chief mining inspector shall be a qualified elector and a practical miner of at least five years' experience, and his tions. two associates shall be qualified electors and practical miners of at least five years' experience. No one shall be appointed mine inspector who, or the wife of whom, owns and operates, in whole or in part, mining property. SEC. 1002. The mine inspectors shall give their whole time and attention to the duties of their offices. It shall be the duty of mine inspectors to examine all the mines in this State at least every three months, to see that all the requirements of this chapter are strictly observed and carried out; inspectors shall particularly examine the works and machinery belonging to any mine, examine into the state of the mines as to ventilation, circulation, and condition of air, drainage and general security; they shall make a record of all examinations of mines, showing the date when made, the condition in which the mines are found, the extent to which the laws relating to mines and mining are observed or violated, the progress made in the improvements and security of life and health sought to be secured by the provisions of this chapter, number of accidents, injuries received, or deaths in and about the mines, the number of persons employed in or by each mine, together with all such other. facts and information of public interest concerning the condition of mines, development, and progress of mining in this State, as they may think useful and proper, and so much thereof as may be of public interest, to be included in his report. SEC. 1003. The governor may discharge a mine inspector at any time, upon the filing of a written complaint substantiated by sufficient proof for unfairness, unfitness, incompetency, or malfeasance, and appoint his successor for the unexpired term. SEC. 1004. The inspectors of mines shall, prior to the assembling of the legislature, make a written report to the governor, stating the condition of the mining interests in this State, with such suggestions and information as may be of interest to the mining industry, and the report may be printed on the order of the governor. 121 Duties. Discharge. Reports. Board. Fee. Examination SEC. 1006. The chief inspector of mines, who shall be chairman of mine bosses. of the board, together with two practical miners, and two operators of mines (a majority of whom may act), shall constitute a board of examiners, to examine and give certificates of fitness to persons as mine bosses, in any coal mine in this State. A fee of five dollars shall be paid to the chief inspector of mines by each person examined, to be used as an examiners' fund, before the examination is begun. Out of the examiners' fund there shalĮ be paid to each member of the board, except the chief inspector of mines, who shall serve without extra pay, four dollars per day. Said board shall meet every six months at the office of the chief inspector, and remain in session not longer than three days. The members of such board, except the chief inspector of mines, shall be appointed by the governor and shall hold office for two years and until their successors are appointed and qualified. Qualifications SEC. 1007. Applicants for first and second class mine foreman's of applicants certificates shall be at least twenty-three years of age, and shall for certificates. have at least five years' practical experience after having attained to the age of fifteen years, as miners, superintendents at or inside of any coal mine, and shall be citizens of this State and men of good moral character, and men of known temperate habits. The said board shall be entitled to grant certificates of competency of two grades, namely: Certificates of the first class to persons who have had experience in mines generating gases, and who shall have the necessary qualifications to fulfill the duties of mine foreman in such mines; and certificates of the second class to persons who give satisfactory evidence of their ability to act as mine foreman in mines not generating explosive gases. Grades. Scales. Full weight SEC. 1008. The owner or operator of each coal mine at which the miners are paid by weight shall provide such mines with suitable scales, of standard make, for the weighing of all coal, when contracted for to be weighed. SEC. 1009. All coal mined in this State contracted for payment to be credited. by the ton or other weight, shall be weighed, and the full weight therof shall be credited to the miner of such coal, and two thousand pounds of coal shall constitute a ton. Ton. Check weigh man. Standard weights, ing, etc. test Who may inspect. Foremen mines generating gases. Foremen small mines. SEC. 1010. In all mines the miners employed and working therein may furnish a check weighman, who shall at proper times have full access and examination of such scales and seeing all measures and weights, and accounts kept of the same: Provided, That not more than one person shall have such right of access, examination, and inspection of scales, measures, and accounts at the same time. SEC. 1011. The chief mine inspector shall procure from the State, at the State's expense, a full and complete set of standards, balances, and other means of adjustment such as are necessary in the comparison and adjustment of scales, beams, and other necessary apparatus to be used for a just weighing of coal and other materials at the mines according to the State standard of weights; and it shall be the duty of said inspector to examine, test, and adjust, as often as occasion demands, all scales and other apparatus used in weighing at mines. SEC. 1012. The mine inspector, miners employed in the mines, and the owner of the land or persons interested in the rental and royalty of such mines, shall at all proper times have full right of access to scales used at said mines, including bank book in which the weight of coal is kept, to examine the amount of coal mined, for the purpose of testing the accuracy thereof. in SEC. 1013. No person shall act as foreman in any coal mine in this State generating explosive gases unless he is in possession of a first-class certificate of competency. The fee for examination and issuing a first-class certificate shall be five dollars, and for a second-class certificate, three dollars. in SEC. 1014. The chief mine inspector shall, upon application by the owner or operator of mines in which not more than twenty men are employed, grant permission for such owner, operator, or some suitable person recommended by the operator, to act as fore |