In re Petition of Rodgers

Citations

• 192 Pa. 97
• 43 A. 475
• 1899 Pa. LEXIS 884

Syllabus

<p>Mines and mining—Definition of mine—Act of July 5, 1883—Lateral railroads.</p> <p>Where the size of a coal mining plant is in proportion to the area of coal to be mined and “ a plan of the mining operations to be pursued in the mining of the coal ” has been formulated and followed, the plant, the plan of operation and the area of coal with which they are connected may be designated as a coal mine within the meaning of the Act of July 5, 1883,</p> <p>P. L. 176.</p> <p>Constitutional law—Title of statute—Supplementary act—Act of July 5, 1883.</p> <p>When an act is declared to be a supplement to a former act, if the subject of the original act is sufficiently expressed in its own title and the provisions of the supplement are germane to that subject, the subject of the supplement is sufficiently covered by a title containing a specific reference to the original by its title with the date of its approval.</p> <p>The act of July 6, 1883, entitled “ A supplement to an act entitled ‘ an act regulating lateral railroads.’ approved the fifth day of May Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, authorizing the owners or lessees of iron ore, or coal mines, to construct latei’al railroads from said mines to any railroad, public road or navigable stream within the county in which such mines are situated,” is not defective in title.</p>