f age in,
about or in connection with any mine. Such employment is
governed by the provisions of Section 13002 G.C."

Opinion No. 885 office of the Attorney General, State of
Ohio, December 21, 1917.

Sec. 913. [=Report of district inspector to chief inspector.=] On or
before each Monday, each district inspector of mines shall make and
file in the office of the chief inspector of mines, a record showing
the number of mines in the district examined by him during the
preceding week, the number of persons employed in and about such
mines, the date of each examination, condition of each mine
examined, whether the laws relating to mines and mining are being
observed or violated, and, if violated, the nature and extent of
such violations, progress made in safeguarding the lives and
protecting the health of the employes in and about the mines,
together with such other facts of public interest concerning the
condition of mines and the development and progress in mining, as he
deems proper. (Sec. 909.)

Sec. 914. [=Duties of chief inspector and oil and gas well
inspector.=] The chief deputy inspector of mines and the oil and gas
well inspector shall designate the townships in the various coal
producing counties of Ohio, which shall be considered coal bearing
or coal producing townships, to be included under the regulations as
prescribed in section 973 relating to the mapping, drilling and
abandonment of oil, gas or test wells. The chief deputy inspector of
mines shall allow all matter pertaining to the mapping and drilling
of oil and gas wells to be under the direct supervision of the oil
and gas well inspector, except when wells are to be drilled, or have
been drilled directly adjacent to some mining operation, or in case
any arrangement for the drilling of an oil or gas well must
necessarily be made in mutual understanding and consideration with
some mining operation, or whenever the proper protection of the coal
deposits is in question.

The oil and gas well inspector shall supervise the granting of
permits to drill or abandon a well, the filing and reprinting of
maps of oil, gas or test wells, and see that all the provisions
relating to the mapping, drilling, and abandonment of such wells are
strictly complied with. In any case where the plugging method as
outlined in section 973 cannot be applied, or if applied, would be
found ineffective in carrying out the intended protection, which the
law is m