BALTIMORE CITY. 1157

1906, ch. 244, sec. 6.

663F. Before any person, firm or corporation shall hereafter engage
in the business of a Master Electrician in Baltimore City, as defined in
this Act, and before any person, firm or corporation now engaged in said
business or any class thereof, shall continue in said business of Master
Electrician, such person, firm or corporation shall apply to said Board
for a license, as herein required, whereupon the applicant shall present
himself before the said Board at a time and place fixed by said Board.
If the Board shall find upon due examination that the applicant present-
ing himself has a reasonable knowledge of electricity and the natural
laws and functions of electric wires, appliances and devices for electric
light, heat and power purposes, and is possessed of skill and of knowledge
in all matters appertaining to the business of Master Electrician, as de-
nned in Section 5 of this Act, then the said Board, upon payment of the
fee and upon executing the bond herein provided for, shall issue to the
said person, firm or corporation a license as Master Electrician to practice
said business for a term of one year; and shall register such person, firm
or corporation as duly licensed Master Electrician; provided, however,
no person, firm or corporation who shall have been engaged in the elec-
trical contracting business in the City of Baltimore for a, period of three
(3) years prior to the passage of this Act, shall be required to take the
examination as provided in this section, before the issuance of such license,
and provided that no license shall be granted to any person under the age
of twenty-one (21) years, nor shall any license be granted to any person
who has not taiken and subscribed an oath that he, or, in case of a corpo-
ration, the one managing the electrical work thereof, and in case of a
firm, the one managing the electrical work, has had at least three (3)
years actual experience as a Master Electrician within the meaning of
Section 5 of this Act, or as journeyman electrician in. such class or classes
of electrical business or work, as in the opinion of the Board, shall have
properly fitted the applicant for a license as a Master Electrician. Any
person whose application for a license shall have been rejected by said
Board, shall have the right to appeal to a Board of Arbitration, which
shall consist of one person selected by the person making the appeal, one
person selected by the Board herein created, and these two to select a third
person, and the decision of said Board of Arbitration or a majority of
them shall be final and binding upon all the parties to said appeal; the
members of said Board shall be paid the sum of five dollars ($5.00) each,
which sum shall be deposited with the Board herein created by the person
taking said appeal and if the said Board of Aribtration shall affirm the
decision of the Board herein created, the money so deposited shall be used
to pay said Board; if, however, such decision be reversed, the said Board
of Arbitration shall be paid out of the funds in the hands of the Board
herein created, and said deposit of fifteen dollars ($15.00) shall be re-
turned ; provided, further, that each applicant shall pay to the Treasurer
of said Board of Electrical Examiners, the sum of twenty-five dollars
($25.00) for such license, and provided, further, that every person, firm