INSPECTIONS. 1791

charge of more than one plant of machinery at the same time unless said
plant be of the same company and at one and the same place; and no
substitute who has not been examined and received a certificate, aforesaid,
shall be placed in charge of machinery by any engineer who has.

1892, ch. 448.

141. All persons of twenty-one years of age or upward who, after the
adoption of this Act, shall desire to fill a position as a stationary engi-
neer, must make application to the " Board of Examining Engineers " for
examination and certificate of proficiency, before he can pursue his avoca-
tion as such engineer, provided that any engineer employed as stationary
engineer at the works of any steam railway, or any engineer employed as
such with any stationary engine, who at the time of the adoption of this
Act shall have been employed at the same place for the term of six
months or more shall not be required to apply for such examination and
certificate; but whenever such engineers shall remove from the place where
so employed they shall be, and are hereby required to make application
for examination and certificate (to said board of examining engineers) as
hereinbefore provided, and provided, further, that the provisions of this
section shall not apply to persons running engines and boilers in sparsely
settled country places, where not more than twenty persons are engaged in
work about such engines and boilers, nor to engineers running country saw
and grist-mills, threshing machines, and other machinery of a similar char-
acter, nor to marine engineers engaged in steamboats, ships and other vessels
run by steam nor to those engaged as locomotive engineers of any steam
railway company. And in the event of any charge, being made to said
board of any engineer, who may hold a certificate from them, of being
intoxicated, while in charge of an engine or boiler, or of the neglect of
duty on the part of such engineer or engineers, it shall be the duty of said
board to immediately hear such charge and if sustained annul such cer-
tificate. The certificate granted to the respective applicants must be framed
and kept in a conspicuous place at such place as such persons may be
respectively at work. Any person violating the provisions of this sub-
division of this Article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon trial and conviction before a. Justice of the Peace, shall be fined not
less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, one-half of which
shall be paid the informer and the balance to the State.

1892, ch. 448.

142. Said Board of Examining Engineers shall meet at their office
in the City of Baltimore for the purpose of examining applicants at least
once in every week, and at a specified hour and day and shall sit until all
applicants shall be examined and in the event of inability to examine all
the applicant's on the regular day of meeting they shall continue their
sessions for each successive day until the same shall be completed, they
shall visit and inspect the running and management of all steam plants
wherein the engineers are required to be examined as hereinbefore pro-
vided not less than once every six months, and in the event of their finding