Agricola, Georgius, De re metallica, 1912/1950

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              Mining Clerk, and in common they receive the fee rendered by the foremen
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              of the separate mines.</s>
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              <s>I now come to the Jurors, who are men experienced in mining
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              matters and of good repute. </s>
              <s>Their number is greater or less as there
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              are few or more mines; thus if there are ten mines there will be five
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              pairs of Jurors, like a
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              decemviral college
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              16
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              . </s>
              <s>Into however many
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              divisions the total number of mines has been divided, so many divisions
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              has the body of Jurors; each pair of Jurors usually visits some of
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              the mines whose administration is under their supervision on every
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              day that workmen are employed; it is usually so arranged that they
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              visit all the mines in the space of fourteen days. </s>
              <s>They inspect and con­
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              sider all details, and deliberate and consult with the mine foreman on
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              matters relating to the underground workings, machinery, timbering, and
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              everything else. </s>
              <s>They also jointly with the mine foreman from time to
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              time make the price per fathom to the workmen for mining the ore, fixing
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              it at a high or low price, according to whether the rock is hard or soft; if,
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              however, the contractors find that an unforeseen and unexpected hardness
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              occurs, and for that reason have difficulty and delay in carrying out their
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              work, the Jurors allow them something in excess of the price fixed;
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              while if there is a softness by reason of water, and the work is done more
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              easily and quickly, they deduct something from the price. </s>
              <s>Further, if the
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              Jurors discover manifest negligence or fraud on the part of any foreman
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              or workman, they first admonish or reprimand him as to his duties and
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              obligations, and if he does not become more diligent and improve, the matter
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              is reported to the
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              Bergmeister,
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              who by right of his authority deprives such
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              persons of their functions and office, or, if they have committed a crime,
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              throws them into prison. </s>
              <s>Lastly, because the Jurors have been given
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              to the
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              Bergmeister
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              as councillors and advisors, in their absence he does not
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              confirm the right over any mine, nor measure the mines, nor fix their
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              boundaries, nor settle disputes about boundaries, nor pronounce judgment,
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              nor, finally, does he without them listen to any account of profits and
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              expenditure.</s>
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              <s>Now the Mining Clerk enters each mine in his books, the new mines
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              in one book, the old mines which have been re-opened in another. </s>
              <s>This
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              is done in the following way: first is written the name of the man who has
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              applied for the right over the mine, then the day and hour on which he
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              made his application, then the vein and the locality in which it is situated,
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              next the conditions on which the right has been given, and lastly, the day on
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              which the
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              Bergmeister
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              confirmed it. </s>
              <s>A document containing all these
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              particulars is also given to the person whose right over a mine has been
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              confirmed. </s>
              <s>The Mining Clerk also sets down in another book the names
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              of the owners of each mine over which the right has been confirmed;
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              in another any intermission of work permitted to any person for cer­</s>
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