HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1617

(1) year actual experience as a Master Electrician within
the meaning of this sub-title, or has had such education equiv-
alent to a 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 Mas-
ter Electrician. Any person, whose application for a license
shall have been rejected by the said Board, shall have the
right to appeal to a Board of Arbitration, which shall con-
sist of one person selected by the person making the appeal,
one person selected by the Board herein created, and a third
person to be selected by these two; and the decision of said
Board of Arbitration, or a majority of its members, shall be
final and binding upon all the parties to said appeal. The
members of said Board of Arbitration 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 re-
versed, the said Board of Arbitration shall be paid out of the
funds in the hands of the Board herein created, and said de-
posit of fifteen dollars ($15. 00) shall be returned; provided,
further, that each applicant shall pay to the Treasurer of said
Board of Electrical Examiners, the sum of fifteen dollars
($15. 00) for such license, and provided, further, that every
person before receiving a license shall make, execute and de-
liver 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), 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 and indemnify the owner, or real party
in interest in the property, for which any such material is
furnished or service performed against loss, damage and in-
jury 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, or his agents or employees. Said Board of Elec-
trical Examiners shall have full power and authority to hear
and determine grievances or claims against said licensees in-
volving losses or breaches of contract, to order said licensees
to pay damages therefor and in default of said payment to
revoke their license and forfeit their bond.

247G. Each and every license issued under the provisions
of this sub-title shall be evidence in any court of Harford
County of the business for which the license is issued for a
period not to exceed one (1) year from the date hereof. All