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years or upward, who shall apply to them for examination; and
to give to all parties so examined a certificate of proficiency, it
found proficient, and to refuse to give such certificate if not
found proficient; and the parties so receiving such certificate
shall pay to said board the sum of three dollars for each certifi-
cate 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 permit the holder thereof to
take charge of any plant of machinery from one to five hun-
dred 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.

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 engineer, must make application to the "Board
of Examining Engineers" for examination and certificate of
proficiency, before he can pursue his avocation as such engi-
neer; provided, that any engineer employed as stationary engi-
neer at the works of any steam railway, or any engineer em-
ployed 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 appli-
cation for examination and certificate to said Board of Exam-
ining Engineers as hereinbefore provided; and provided fur-
ther, 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