two (2) inches in height are to be allowed for bedding plates where no brick work is over them. To measure cornices, take the length and and height by the greatest projections, which, in no case, shall be less than (4) inches wide, all fractions to be put in the next higher class; caps are to be measured the same as cornices. In measuring partition walls take the dimensions clear of the front and rear walls. For fire walls and gables, add two (2) courses of bricks, or five (5) inches for cutting the brick and waste thereon. Pilasters are measured over face and one side for length, multiplied by height and thickness. No deductions are to be made for circular or semi-circular openings for arches, vaults, sewers, etc.; take outside circumference by the length and thickness. For arches in solid walls, add to measurement the superficial area, multiplied by the thickness of the wail. Projecting arches are to be measured by the length and height from the spring to the top of centre of the arch by the thickness of the projection, which in no case shall be less than four (4) inches, or one-half (1) brick wide. Vault arches are to be measured one and one-half (1) times the outside girth. Ovens, coppers, boilers, etc., are to be measured as solid work, deducting only the ash holes, but the fire bricks, tiles, etc., are not deducted out the brick work. In measuring isolated piers, take the face and one return for the width and multiply by the height and thickness or number of bricks thick. Isolated walls are to be measured by adding to the face two (2) returns or thickness of wall for the length, multiplied by the height and thickness; on corners more or less than a right angle, allow additional the thickness of the wall for each, and corner in the length. In measuring stock or pressed brick fronts take the area of such facing and returns at each corner and deduct openings; all openings where frames occur to be deducted, less the reveals, when the openings are without frames and have the jambs faced through the full thickness of the wall, both jambs to be measured, and four (4) inches on the inside to be allowed. A superficial foot of facing to front will take seven (7) bricks. Brick paving is to be measured by the superficial yard, equal to nine (9) square feet, which will require forty (40) bricks to the yard when laid flat. In brick paving, paving on edge or border, allow double the aforesaid measurement, and in brick on end allow four (4) times the aforesaid measurement. Pointing fronts is to be measured by the superficial foot.

SEC. 4. [Stone cutting work.]-For plain rubbed face to ashlar, platform, posts, watertables, cornices, take the superficial measurement upon all parts of the work where exposed. For moulded work to cor nices, archives, imposts, etc., girth the whole face of the mouldings, beginning with the tape at the extreme edge of the moulding and

emerging it into the hollows and quirks across the whole face. The dimensions, multiplied by the length, will give the superficial feet. Take all flat circular work at one (1) and one-half (1) times the straight, and when of a quick sweep, fifteen (15) inches radius or under, twice the straight. Panel work measures double. Measure the different kinds of work for labor, as follows, only by the lineal foot; Rough brush hammered work, one (1) foot and under; fine hammered work, one (1) foot and under; checks under ten (10) inches, checks over two (2) inches, measure double. Rebates, steps and moulded nosings, window sills with nosings, window caps, moulded window caps, moulded string course, pier caps, plain pilaster caps, mouled pilaster caps, moulded cornice, moulded fence coping. Returns for the whole of the above to be measured double. If over one (1) foot high, measure superficial, ditto tooled. The following different kinds of work for labor only shall be measured by the superficial foot: Brush hammered door sills, brush hammered piers of two (2), three (3) or four (4) sides, lintels, pier blocks, base blocks, plinths, measuring four (4) feet and less, measured double, bevelled ashlar. All returns for above measured one and one-half (14) times. Ring stones, saddle-back coping, fence posts of various kinds, coarse fire wall coping, chimney tops, double measurement. Platforms measured same as steps, one (1) foot from front, the balance per superficial foot; if the bottom bed is worked, to be charged the same as ashlar. Bed over twelve (12) inches wide to be paid for as rough brush hammered work, with the exception of plinth blocks. Rusticated quoins under twelve (12) inches in bed, superficial measurement; over twelve (12) inches thick, cubic measurement. Rusticated ashlar, superficial measurement.

SEC. 5. [Plastering work.]-Plain plastering is to be measured by the superficial yard, that is, three (3) feet multiplied by three (3) feet equal nine superficial feet. 'In measuring plastering take the girth of the walls in a room for the length and multiply by the height from floor to ceiling, and from this product deduct one-half () of the amount of the openings, such as doors, windows, etc. All cornices and mouldings, and all work where running mould is used, are to be measured from the nose of the moulding to the wall, and a moulding is desig nated as being so many inches, according to the girth; the length is taken on the wall line, and one (1) lineal is allowed to each miter. Measure of plain or moulded cornices under twelve (12) inches girth by the running foot, and all above that girth by the superficial foot. The plain parts of ornamented cornices shall be first taken as plain, and the several enrichments therein taken per running foot at their separate values, which, added to the price of the plain moulding, will

give the correct value per foot run of the whole cornice; complete mouldings encircling centers to be measured as mouldings. All circular work double measurement. All inclined or raking ceilings under an angle of twenty-two (22) degrees with the horizon, to be measured as level; over twenty-two (22) degrees, one and one-half (14) measurement. Twenty-two degrees is equal to one-fifth (1-5) of the span. Closets and presses under four (4) feet by eight (8) feet, double measurement. Privies shall be measured double; all external angle beads and quirks, per running foot; furring, regulating or stripping on all lath, per square. Whitening and coloring are to be measured in the same manner as plastering. Niches and arches are valued at so much each. Cast and enriched centers to ceilings, fixed and put on complete, so much each, according to diameter. All circular enrichments to be twice the price of straights of the same description. When enrichments are moulded from original designs, the expense of the moulding to be paid for extra. All work done on stone walls with cement or mastic, measured same as plastering, but no openings deducted.

SEC. 6. [Roofing work.]-Slater's work is to be measured by the square of one hundred (100) superficial feet of covering, to this added six (6) inches run for the trouble of cutting the slates on each side of the hips, eaves, valleys, or whenever cut to irregular lines. No deductions are made for dormer windows, skylights, chimneys, etc., except they are over fifty (50) feet superficial feet contents, then one-half (1) is deducted. Composition and tin roofing is measured in the same manner as the slate roofs, with the exception that nothing is added for hips, eaves, valleys, etc.

SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this are hereby repealed.

Approved March 31, 1885.

MINES AND MINING: WEIGHING OF COAL.

AN ACT to regulate the weighing of coal at mines and to establish a just and uniform system of weights between employers and employes.

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any mine ower, lessee or operator of coal mines in this State, employing miners at bushel or ton rates, or other quantity, to pass the output of coal mined by said. miners over any screen or other device which shall take any part from the value thereof, before the same shall have been weighed and duly credited to the employe sending the same to the surface, and accounted for at the legal rate of weights as fixed by the laws of Missouri.

SEC. 2. The weighman employed at any mine shall subscribe an oath or affirmation before a justice of the peace or other officer authorized to administer oaths, to do justice between employer and employe, and to weigh the output of coal from the mines in accordance with the provisions of section one of this act. Said oath or affirmation shall be kept conspicuously posted in the weigh office, and any weigher of coal, or person so employed, who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, proceedings to be instituted in any court having competent jurisdiction.

SEC. 3. Any person or persons having or using any scale or scales for the purpose of weighing the output of coal at mines, so arranged or constructed that fraudulent weighing may be done thereby, or who shall knowingly resort to or employ any means whatsoever, by reason of which such coal is not correctly weighed and reported in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, for each such offense, be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, proceedings to be instituted in any court of competent jurisdiction.

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SEC. 4. Any provision, contract or agreement between mine owners or operators thereof, and the miners employed therein, whereby the provisions of section one of this act are waived, modified or annulled, shall be void and of no effect, and the coal sent to the surface shall be accepted or rejected; and if accepted, shall be weighed in accordance with the provisions of this act, and right of action shall not be invalidated by reason of any contract or agreement.

SEC. 5. The provisions of this act shall also apply to the class of workers in mines known as loaders, engaged in mines wherein the mining is done by machinery, whenever the workmen are under conL. S.-15

tract to load coal by the bushel, ton or any quantity, the settlement of which is had by weight, the output shall be weighed in accordance with the provisions of this act.

Approved March 18, 1885.

MINES AND MINING: INSPECTION Of.

AN ACT to amend section 11 of the acts of 1881, entitled "an act providing for the health and safety of persons employed in coal mines, and providing for the inspection of the same."

SECTION 1. County court to appoint inspector of mines-bond-failure to perform duty a misdemeanor.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

SECTION 1. That section 11 of the acts of 1881, entitled "an act providing for the health and safety of persons employed in coal mines, and providing for the inspection of the same," be and is hereby amended by striking out the word "thousand," in the thirteenth line of said section, between the words "five" and "dollars," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "hundred." Also by adding to said section the following: "provided, further, that any mine inspector failing or refusing to perform any of the duties imposed upon him by this chapter or to perform said duties in such a careless manner as to be detri mental to the health or safety of any person or persons working in any mines in his county, shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, be declared guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not longer than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and any person or persons injured by reason of the fail. ure of said mine inspector to perform his duties strictly in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall have a right of action upon said bond for all damages thereby sustained, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction," so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: Section 11. The county court in each and every county in this state where coal mines are situated and are now or may hereafter be operated or worked, is hereby authorized and it is hereby made its duty to appoint an inspector of mines at its first meeting after this act shall have taken effect, who shall have been a resident of the