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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 applicants 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 on such examination that the engineer or engineers in charge of
such plant or machinery are not running and managing the same with
proper skill and care, they shall report the same to the State Board of
Boiler Inspectors for their action; and said Board of Examining Engi-
neers are hereby invested with power and authority to enter all such prem-
ises and make the examination herein provided for; and any owner of any
such premises who shall refuse to allow them to enter and make such
examination shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punishable
upon trial and conviction, as provided in the preceding section.

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

430. The said Board of Examining Engineers shall receive an annual
salary of fifteen hundred dollars each, and shall have power to employ
a clerk or secretary at a salary not exceeding the sum of one thousand
dollars per annum, and such expense shall be allowed said board as shall
be incurred in traveling expense, office rent, stationery and printing, and
for which they shall produce to the Comptroller of the State Treasury,
proper vouchers; provided, however, that no appropriation shall be made-
and no moneys paid by the State Treasurer to said board for or on account
of said salaries and expenses, but that the same shall be paid to them
by and from the fees received for the examination and certificates herein-
before provided for; and provided further, that the said board shall keep
a strict account of all fees received for such purposes, and quarterly, under
oath or affirmation, return such statement to the Comptroller of the State
Treasury; and whenever the amount is in excess of the salaries and
expenses hereinbefore provided for they shall forward such excess to said
Comptroller, and they shall keep a certificate book with the certificates
therein duly numbered and of which to each certificate there is a corre-
sponding stub to be filled in to correspond in all respects to the certificate
issued, and subject to the inspection of the Comptroller, when he may
deem the same necessary.

FERRIES.

1868, ch. 187. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 298.

431. The Broadway and Locust Point Steam Ferry Company of
Maryland is created to establish a steam ferry, suitable to transport pas-
sengers, goods, wagons, carriages, live-stock or any other transportable
article, across, over and within the harbor of Baltimore; and the said
corporation is made capable of erecting wharves, buildings, or any other