Chap. 106.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1835 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to the Department of Mines, so as to change the name
of the said department to the Division of Mines to conform to existing
law, and to provide that the State Mine Inspector shall for certain pur-
poses be the inspector of weights and measures and be vested with the
authority, and charged with the duties, of inspectors of weights and measures;
and to appropriate money to pay the costs and expenses incident to the
discharge of his duties as such. | [H B 257]

Approved March 12, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
eighteen hundred and thirty-five of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1835. Division of Mines continued—The Division of
Mines, heretofore created and known as the Department of Mines, is
continued. It shall be under and subject to the control of the Bureau
of Labor and Industry, and shall have for its purpose the supervision
of the execution and enforcement of all laws enacted for: the safety
of persons employed within or at mines within the limits of the Com-
monwealth, and the protection of mine property and other property used
in connection therewith; and the said division shall be in charge of an
official to be known as the State mine inspector, hereinafter designated
as inspector, who shall be appointed by, be under the control of, and
shall report to the Commissioner of Labor. The State mine inspector
shall be the inspector of weights and measures for the purpose of
inspecting, testing and ascertaining whether the scales or measures,
which are kept at coal mines for the purpose of weighing or measuring
coal produced therefrom, are correct, and for such purpose he shall
have the authority vested in, and be charged with the duties imposed
upon, inspectors of weights and measures by general law; and there
is hereby appropriated out of the general fund in the State treasury,
to the Bureau of Labor and Industry, the sum of one thousand dollars
for the purpose of providing necessary equipment and means of trans-
portation for the said inspector in the performance of his duties here-
under.