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one to thirty horse-power, and the fourth grade to take charge of any
hoisting or portable plant of machinery; and the said certificate shall
run for the term of one year, and shall be renewed annually, the term of
beginning of said certificate to be from the date of the examination of
the respective applicant; provided, that no engineer having such certifi-
cate shall have 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 cer-
tificate, aforesaid, shall be placed in charge of machinery by any engi-
neer who has.

1892, ch. 448. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 297C.

428. All persons of twenty-one years of age or upward who, after the
adoption of this Article, 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 avo-
cation as such engineer; provided, that any engineer employed as sta-
tionary engineer at the works of any stream railway, or any engineer
employed as such with any stationary engine, who at the time of the
adoption of this Article 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 Ex-
amining 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 engi-
neers running country saw and grist mills, threshing machines and other
machinery of a similar character, 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 certificate. 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. P. L. L, (188S). Art. 4, sec. 297D.

429. Said Board of Examining Engineers shall meet at their office in
the City of Baltimore for the purpose of examining applicants at least