FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 3. The said board shall have general supervision of

all stationary engineers within the State of Maryland,

except as hereinafter provided ; it shall be their duty to

Their duty

examine all engineers of the age of twenty -one years or

to examine
and give

upward, who shall apply to them for examination ; and to

certificates.

give to all parties so examined, a certificate of proficiency,

if found proficient, and to refuse to give such certificate if

not found proficient, and the parties so receiving such cer-

tificate shall pay to said board the sum of three dollars for

each certificate so issued and for all renewals of all grades

the sum of one dollar and fifty cents ; said certificates shall

be of three grades ; a certificate of the first grade will per-

mit the holder thereof to take charge of any plaut of

machinery from one to five hundred horse power, and the

third grade to take charge of any plant of machinery from

one to thirty-horse power, 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 certificate 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 the certificate aforesaid shall be placed in charge

of machinery by an engineer who has.

SEC. 4. All persons of twenty-oue years of age or

upward who, after the adoption of this act, shall desire to

fill a position as a stationary engineer, must make applica-

To examine

tion to the ''Board of Examining Engineers" for examina-

engineers.

tion and certificate of proficiency, before he can pursue his

avocation 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 sta-

tionary 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 exami-

nation 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 machin-

ery of a similar character, nor to marine engineers engaged