Chapter 95. To provide for the establishment and maintenance of mining experiment and mine safety stations for making investigations and disseminating information among employees in mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 95.— An Act To provide for the establishment and maintenance of mining experiment and mine safety stations for making investigations and disseminating information among employees in mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, and for other purposes. March 3, 1915.[[H. R. 15869](/us/bill/63/hr/15869).][[Public, No. 283](/us/63/pl/283).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theBureau of Mines.Additional experiment and safety stations to be established.
Interior is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain in the several important mining regions of the United States and the Territory of Alaska, as Congress may appropriate for the necessary employees and other expenses, under the Bureau of Mines and in accordance with the provisions of the Act establishing said bureau, ten mining experiment stations and seven mine safety stations, movable or stationary, in addition to those already established, the province and duty of which shall be to make investigations andObject, etc. disseminate information with a view to improving conditions in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, safe-guarding life among employees, preventing unnecessary waste of resources, and otherwise contributing to the advancement of these industries: *Provided*, That not more than three mining experiment*Proviso*.Annual limit. stations and mine safety stations hereinabove authorized shall be established in any one fiscal year under the appropriations made therefor.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized toAcceptance of lands, etc. accept lands, buildings, or other contributions from the several States offering to cooperate in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Approved, March 3, 1915.