25. Every working shaft used for the purpose of drawing minerals or for the lowering or raising of persons shall, if exceeding fifty yards in depth, and not exempted in writing by the inspector of the district, be provided with guides, and some proper means of communicating distinct and definite signals from the bottom of the shaft and from every entrance for the time being in use between the surface and the bottom of the shaft to the surface, and from the surface to the bottom of the shaft, and to every entrance for the time being in use between the surface and the bottom of the shaft.
26. If in any mine the winding apparatus is not provided with some auto matic contrivance to prevent overwinding, then the cage, when men are being raised, shall not be wound up at a speed exceeding three miles an hour, after the cage has reached a point in the shaft to be fixed by the special rules.
27. A sufficient cover overhead shall be used for every cage or tub em ployed in lowering or raising persons in any working shaft, except where the cage or tub is worked by a windlass or where persons are employed at work in the shaft, or where a written exemption is given by the inspector of the district.
28. A single linked chain shall not be used for lowering or raising persons in any working shaft or plane except for the short coupling chain attached to the cage or tub.
29. There shall be on the drum of every machine used for lowering or raising persons such flanges or horns, and also if the drum is conical, such other appliances as may be sufficient to prevent the rope from slipping.
30. There shall be attached to every machine worked by steam, water, or mechanical power and used for lowering and raising persons, an adequate break or breaks, and a proper indicator (in addition to any mark on the rope) showing to the person who works the machine the position of cage or tub in the shaft. If the drum is not on the crank shaft, there shall be an adequate break on the drum shaft.
31. Every fly-wheel mid all exposed and dangerous parts of the machinery used in or about the mine shall be securely fenced.
82. Each steam-boiler, whether separate or one of a range, shall have attached to it a proper safety-valve, and also a proper steam-gauge and water gauge, to show respectively the pressure of steam and the height of water in each boiler.
SS. A barometer and thermometer shall be placed above ground in a con spicuous position near the entrance to the mine.
34. Where persons are employed underground, ambulances or stretchers, with splits and bandages, shall be kept at the mine ready for immediate use in case of accident.
25. No person shall wilfully damage, or without proper authority remove or render useless, any fence, fencing, man-hole, place of refuge, casing, lining, guide, means of signalling, signal, cover, chain, flange, horn, break, indicator, steam gauge, water-gauge, safety-valve, or other appliance or thing provided in any mine in compliance with the Act.
86. Every person shall observe such directions with respect to working as may be given to him with a view to comply with the Act or the special rules in force in the mine.
87. The books mentioned in these rules shall be provided by the owner, agent, or manager, and the books, or a correct copy thereof, shall be kept at the office at the mine, and any inspector under the Act, and any person employed in the mine or any other having the written authority of any inspector or person so employed, may at all reasonable times inspect and take copies of and extracts from any such books ; but nothing in these rules shall be construed to impose the obligation of keeping any such book or a copy thereof for more than twelve months after the book has ceased to be used for entries therein under the Act. Any report of the Act required to be recorded in a book may be partly in print (including lithograph) and partly in writing.
88. The persons employed in a mine may from time to time appoint two of their number or any two persons, not being mining engineers, who are practical working miners, to inspect the mine at their own costs, and time persons so appointed shall be allowed once at least in every month, accompanied, if time owner, agent, or manager of the mine think fit, by himself, or one or more officers of the mine, to go to every part of the mine, and to inspect the shafts, levels, planes, working places, return airways, ventilating apparatus, old workings, and machinery. Every facility shall be afforded by the owner, agent, or manager, and all persons in the mine for the purpose of the inspection, and the persons appointed shall forth with make a true report of the result of the inspection, and that report shall be recorded in a book to be kept at the mine for the purpose, and shall be signed by the persons who made the inspection ; and if the report state the existence or apprehended existence of any danger, the owner, agent, or manager shall forth with cause a true copy of the report to be sent to the inspector of the district.