Agricola, Georgius, De re metallica, 1912/1950

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              1,100 Rhenish guldens, were distributed to each one hundred and twenty-eighth
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              share. </s>
              <s>From the Annaberg mine which is known as the Himmelich Höz,
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              they had a dole of eight hundred thaler; from a mine in Joachimsthal
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              which is named the Sternen, three hundred thaler; from the head mine at
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              Abertham, which is called St. </s>
              <s>Lorentz, two hundred and twenty-five thaler
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              12
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              .
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              <s>The more shares of which any individual is owner the more profits he takes.</s>
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              <s>I will now explain how the owners may lose or obtain the right over a
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              mine, or a tunnel, or a share. </s>
              <s>Formerly, if anyone was able to prove by
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              witnesses that the owners had failed to send miners for three continuous
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              shifts
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              , the
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              Bergmeíster
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              deprived them of their right over the mine, and
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              gave the right over it to the informer, if he desired it. </s>
              <s>But although miners
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              preserve this custom to-day, still mining share owners who have paid
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              their contributions do not lose their right over their mines against their will.
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              <s>Formerly, if water which had not been drawn off from the higher shaft of
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              some mine percolated through a vein or stringer into the shaft of another
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              mine and impeded their work, then the owners of the mine which suffered
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              the damage went to the
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              Bergmeíster
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              and complained of the loss, and he sent
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              to the shafts two Jurors. </s>
              <s>If they found that matters were as claimed,
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              the right over the mine which caused the injury was given to the owners
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              who suffered the injury. </s>
              <s>But this custom in certain places has been changed,
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              for the
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              Bergmeíster,
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              if he finds this condition of things proved in the case
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              of two shafts, orders the owners of the shaft which causes the injury to
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              contribute part of the expense to the owners of the shaft which receives the
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              injury; if they fail to do so, he then deprives them of their right over their
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              mine; on the other hand, if the owners send men to the workings to dig
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              and draw off the water from the shafts, they keep their right over their
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              mine. </s>
              <s>Formerly owners used to obtain a right over any tunnel, firstly, if
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              in its bottom they made drains and cleansed them of mud and sand so that
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              the water might flow out without any hindrance, and restored those drains
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              which had been damaged; secondly, if they provided shafts or openings to
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              supply the miners with air, and restored those which had fallen in; and
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              finally, if three miners were employed continuously in driving the tunnel.
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              <s>But the principal reason for losing the title to a tunnel was that for a period
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              of eight days no miner was employed upon it; therefore, when anyone
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              was able to prove by witnesses that the owners of a tunnel had not done
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              these things, he brought his accusation before the
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              Bergmeíster,
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              who, after
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              going out from the town to the tunnel and inspecting the drains and the
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              ventilating machines and everything else, and finding the charge to be true,
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              placed the witness under oath, and asked him: “Whose tunnel is this at the
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              present time?” The witness would reply: “The King's” or “The
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