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[...sends] greetings to his friend Ulpius Aelianus. (1) [---] is to pay [the] imperial [procurator] forthwith. If anyone does do so and is convicted of having smelted ore before paying the price as prescribed above, the share of the occupant is forfeit and the procurator of the mines is to sell the entire mine. The person who has proved that the tenant has smelted ore before paying for the half share belonging to the imperial Treasury is to receive one quarter. (2) Silver mines must be worked in accordance with the prescription embodied in this law. Prices from them will be maintained on the generous terms of the most sacred Emperor Hadrian Augustus: ownership of the share that belongs to the imperial Treasury is to pass to the person who first pays the fees from the shaft and delivers 4,000 sesterces to the imperial Treasury. (3) Anyone who, out of a total of five mines, strikes ore in one, is to carry out or work in the rest without interruption, as is laid down above, if he fails to do so, another is to have power to take over occupancy. (4) If anyone begins operations immediately after the expiry of the twenty-five days granted for the accumulation of funds but afterwards ceases them over a period of ten successive days, another is to have the right to take over occupancy. (5) When a mine has been sold to the imperial Treasury and has been left unworked over a period of six successive months, another is to have the right to take over occupancy, on the basis that when ore is produced from it one half is to be reserved for the imperial Treasury in the usual way. (6) The occupant of the mine is to be permitted to have the partners he wishes, on the basis that each partner is to contribute expenses in the same proportion as his interest in the partnership. If anyone fails to do so, then the man who has incurred the expenses is to have an account of the expenses incurred by him post up for three days in succession in the most frequented part of the market place and is to give notice by crier to each of his partners that he is to contribute to have a share in that mine, and that share is to belong to the partner or partners who incurred the expenses. (7) That person or those tenants who have incurred expense in connection with a mine in which there were several partners are to have the right of recovering from their partners what has manifestly been spent in good faith. (8) Tenants are to be permitted to sell to one another at the best price they can obtain also those shares of mines for which they have paid the full price. Anyone who wishes to sell his share or to buy one is to make a declaration before the procurator who is in charge of the mines; buying and selling by other methods are not to be permitted. The owner who is in debt to the imperial Treasury is not to be permitted to dispose of his share by this way. (9) Ore which has been produced and is lying at the mines shall be conveyed to the workshops between sunrise and sunset by those to whom it belongs. Anyone who is convicted of having taken ore from the mines after sunset or at night is to pay 1,000 sesterces to the imperial Treasury. (10) Anyone who steals ore, if he is a slave, the procurator is to have him flogged and sold on the understanding that he is to be kept in perpetuity and is not to be kept in any mines or territories belonging to him; the price fetched by the slave is to belong to the master. If the thief is a free man the procurator is to seize his property and banish him from the confines of the mines in perpetuity. (11) All mines are to be carefully propped and made stable, and the tenant of each is to replace rotten wood with props of fresh and adequate material. (12) It is not permissible to touch or interfere with piers or props left behind, neither as supports nor to do anything wilfully to render those props and piers less secure or to make them less easy to pass. (13) As to anyone who is convicted of having damaged a mine, cause it to collapse, interfered with the installation at its head, or of having done anything wilfully to render that mines less stable, if he is a slave he is to be flogged at the discretion of the procurator and sold by his master on the understanding that he is not to be kept at the mines, while the procurator is to confiscate the property of a free man to the imperial Treasury and banish him from the confines of the mines in perpetuity. (14) Anyone who is working copper mines is to keep away from the channel that drains water off from the mines and he is to leave not less than fifteen feet clear on either side of it. (15) It is not permissible to interfere with the channel. The procurator is to give permission to drive an exploratory shaft from the channel with the purpose of opening up new deposits, on the basis that the exploratory shaft is to have a width and height of not more than four feet. (16) It is not permissible to explore or to work veins less than fifteen feet on either side of the channel. (17) Anyone who is convicted of having acted otherwise in connection with exploratory shafts, if he is a slave he shall, after being flogged at the discretion of the procurator, be sold (by) his master on the understanding that he is not to be kept in any mines, while the procurator is to confiscate the property of a free man to the imperial Treasury and to banish him from the confines of the mines in perpetuity. (18) Anyone who [is working] silver mines is to keep away from the channel that drains water off from the mines and is to leave not less than sixty feet clear on either side of it, and he is to keep those mines that he has taken over or received as his allocation in operation as they delimited. He is not to proceed further nor to collect slag in heaps nor to drive exploratory shafts beyond the confines of the mines allocated to him in such a way that [---].▼
▲1: Punishment for not abiding by the regulations, rewarding whistle-blowers
2: Silver mines had their specified regulations: on the sale, lease and operation of shafts
3-4: Regulations to maintain active operations, occupiers/tenants’ rights, obligations and safeguarding of income (and revenues)
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13-16: Health and safety at copper mines
17-18: Health and safety outlines at silver mines
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▲[...sends] greetings to his friend Ulpius Aelianus. (1) [---] is to pay [the] imperial [procurator] forthwith. If anyone does do so and is convicted of having smelted ore before paying the price as prescribed above, the share of the occupant is forfeit and the procurator of the mines is to sell the entire mine. The person who has proved that the tenant has smelted ore before paying for the half share belonging to the imperial Treasury is to receive one quarter. (2) Silver mines must be worked in accordance with the prescription embodied in this law. Prices from them will be maintained on the generous terms of the most sacred Emperor Hadrian Augustus: ownership of the share that belongs to the imperial Treasury is to pass to the person who first pays the fees from the shaft and delivers 4,000 sesterces to the imperial Treasury. (3) Anyone who, out of a total of five mines, strikes ore in one, is to carry out or work in the rest without interruption, as is laid down above, if he fails to do so, another is to have power to take over occupancy. (4) If anyone begins operations immediately after the expiry of the twenty-five days granted for the accumulation of funds but afterwards ceases them over a period of ten successive days, another is to have the right to take over occupancy. (5) When a mine has been sold to the imperial Treasury and has been left unworked over a period of six successive months, another is to have the right to take over occupancy, on the basis that when ore is produced from it one half is to be reserved for the imperial Treasury in the usual way. (6) The occupant of the mine is to be permitted to have the partners he wishes, on the basis that each partner is to contribute expenses in the same proportion as his interest in the partnership. If anyone fails to do so, then the man who has incurred the expenses is to have an account of the expenses incurred by him post up for three days in succession in the most frequented part of the market place and is to give notice by crier to each of his partners that he is to contribute to have a share in that mine, and that share is to belong to the partner or partners who incurred the expenses. (7) That person or those tenants who have incurred expense in connection with a mine in which there were several partners are to have the right of recovering from their partners what has manifestly been spent in good faith. (8) Tenants are to be permitted to sell to one another at the best price they can obtain also those shares of mines for which they have paid the full price. Anyone who wishes to sell his share or to buy one is to make a declaration before the procurator who is in charge of the mines; buying and selling by other methods are not to be permitted. The owner who is in debt to the imperial Treasury is not to be permitted to dispose of his share by this way. (9) Ore which has been produced and is lying at the mines shall be conveyed to the workshops between sunrise and sunset by those to whom it belongs. Anyone who is convicted of having taken ore from the mines after sunset or at night is to pay 1,000 sesterces to the imperial Treasury. (10) Anyone who steals ore, if he is a slave, the procurator is to have him flogged and sold on the understanding that he is to be kept in perpetuity and is not to be kept in any mines or territories belonging to him; the price fetched by the slave is to belong to the master. If the thief is a free man the procurator is to seize his property and banish him from the confines of the mines in perpetuity. (11) All mines are to be carefully propped and made stable, and the tenant of each is to replace rotten wood with props of fresh and adequate material. (12) It is not permissible to touch or interfere with piers or props left behind, neither as supports nor to do anything wilfully to render those props and piers less secure or to make them less easy to pass. (13) As to anyone who is convicted of having damaged a mine, cause it to collapse, interfered with the installation at its head, or of having done anything wilfully to render that mines less stable, if he is a slave he is to be flogged at the discretion of the procurator and sold by his master on the understanding that he is not to be kept at the mines, while the procurator is to confiscate the property of a free man to the imperial Treasury and banish him from the confines of the mines in perpetuity. (14) Anyone who is working copper mines is to keep away from the channel that drains water off from the mines and he is to leave not less than fifteen feet clear on either side of it. (15) It is not permissible to interfere with the channel. The procurator is to give permission to drive an exploratory shaft from the channel with the purpose of opening up new deposits, on the basis that the exploratory shaft is to have a width and height of not more than four feet. (16) It is not permissible to explore or to work veins less than fifteen feet on either side of the channel. (17) Anyone who is convicted of having acted otherwise in connection with exploratory shafts, if he is a slave he shall, after being flogged at the discretion of the procurator, be sold (by) his master on the understanding that he is not to be kept in any mines, while the procurator is to confiscate the property of a free man to the imperial Treasury and to banish him from the confines of the mines in perpetuity. (18) Anyone who [is working] silver mines is to keep away from the channel that drains water off from the mines and is to leave not less than sixty feet clear on either side of it, and he is to keep those mines that he has taken over or received as his allocation in operation as they delimited. He is not to proceed further nor to collect slag in heaps nor to drive exploratory shafts beyond the confines of the mines allocated to him in such a way that [---].
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