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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

in steamboats, ships and other vessels run by steam nor to

those engaged as locomotive engineers of auy 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 it 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

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meanor.

work. Any person violating the provisions of this act

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.

SEC. 5. Said board of examining engineers shall meet

at their office in the city of Baltimore for the purpose of

When
board shall

examining applicants at least once in every week, and at a

meet

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 tliey 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 run-

ning 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

engineers are hereby invested with power and authority to

enter all such premises 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 exami-

nation shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be

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punishable upon trial and conviction as provided in the

meanor.

preceding section.

SEC. 6. The said board of examining engineers shall

Salary of

receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars each,

said board.

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 travelling expense, office rent, station-

ery and printing, and for which they shall produce to the