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In 1860, this court system was legitimized when an act was approved to establish a miners' court and regulate its jurisdiction, setting regular times and places for holding court. The court's officers included a judge, a clerk, the sheriff of Arapahoe County and his deputies, and the officially admitted attorneys.
(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in the ...
Last month, a citizen committee in Montgomery County, Texas made the decision to re-classify the children's book, "Colonization and the Wampanoag Story" by Linda Coombs from children's non-fiction ...
The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused illegal miners of using children as "human shields" in the Amazon. He ...
The Mines and Collieries Act 1842 also outlawed the employment of women and girls in mines. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1870 it became compulsory for all children aged between five and thirteen to go to school, ending much of the hurrying.
Hill became a member of the Texas State Police in 1870, and spent his career advancing from first lieutenant to colonel. [160] From 1904 to 1907, Hill traveled throughout Texas gathering information to create a history of Texas but he never finished. [160] Hill died on October 9, 1913, and was buried at his son's ranch. [162]
See American coal miners below: Coal was originally used in America in the 1300s by the Hopi Indians as a way to cook their food, warm themselves and fire their clay. Coal did not resurface in the ...
The "Foreign Miners Tax" of 1850 required all California miners who were not American citizens to pay $20 per month. The tax was not so much a revenue raising instrument as a way of allowing citizens to monopolize mining and take over sites being worked by Chinese and Mexican miners. The tax resistance by foreign miners was successful.