Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah
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Your committee on Mines and Mining beg to report the following article for insertion in the constitution.
Kearns
Chairman
Mines and Mining
Committee Report No. 19
Section I. There shall be established and maintained the office of inspector of coal mines, the duties and salary of which shall be prescribed by law. Then said office shall be established, the Governor shall, with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint thereto a person proven in the manner provided by law to be competent and practical, whose term of office shall be two years.
Section II. The legislature shall provide by law for enforcing safe development, ventilation, drainage and working of all coal mines operated in this state.
Section III. The necessary use of land for rights of way for tunnels, flumes, pipes, ditches, roads, trainways or dumps for the drainage or working of mines, as a means to the development of the mineral resources of the state, is hereby declared a public use, and subject to the control and regulation of the state.