trip passes through. (Sec. 923, 943, 961; Penalty, Sec. 976.)


Sec. 959. [=Persons must not enter mine until fire-boss reports.=]
No person shall enter a mine generating fire-damp so as to be
detected by a safety lamp, until the fire-boss makes a report
outside the mine on a blackboard provided for that purpose, and
arranged where the men can conveniently inspect it. No person shall
go beyond a danger signal, until all standing gas discovered has
been removed or diluted and rendered harmless by a current of air.
(Sec. 925, 955.)


[=Persons ordered to withdraw must not re-enter without
permission.=] Any person being ordered by the mine-foreman to
withdraw from the mine on account of the interruption of the
ventilation shall not re-enter the mine until given permission to do
so by the mine-foreman. (Sec. 952.)


[=Not more than ten persons on a cage.=] When more than ten persons
get on a cage or elevator to be lowered into a mine, or to be
hoisted out of a mine, the person in charge of the lowering and
hoisting of such persons shall order a sufficient number to get off
to reduce the number to ten persons, and the persons so ordered
shall immediately comply. (Sec. 929.)


[=Employes shall not loiter.=] Each employe of a mine shall go to
and from his place of duty by the traveling ways provided; shall not