1360 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 654

said person a license as Master Electrician to practice said
business for a term of one year; and shall register such person
as duly licensed Master Electrician; provided, however, no
person who shall have been engaged as a bona fide contractor
in the electrical contracting business in Cecil County for a
period of three (3) years prior to the passage of this sub-title
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 taken and subscribed an oath that he has
had at least three (3) years actual experience as a Master
Electrician within the meaning of this sub-title, or as journey-
man 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 Arbitration 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 returned; provided, further, that each
resident applicant shall pay to the treasurer of said Board
of Electrical Examiners, the sum of fifteen dollars ($15) and
each non-resident applicant shall pay the sum of thirty-five
($35) dollars for such license, and provided, further, that
every person before receiving a license shall make, execute
and deliver to said Board a good and sufficient bond to be
approved by said Board, in the name of the State of Maryland,
in the penal sum of one thousand dollars ($1, 000. 00), and the
bond to be conditioned upon the faithful performance of any
and all work entered upon or contracted for by said Master
Electrician and to save harmless the owner, or real party in
interest in the property for which any such material is fur-
nished or services performed against loss, damage and injury
which shall arise through want of skill, or through the failure
to use suitable or proper material in the performance of any
work contracted for or undertaken by said Master Electrician,