1402                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 599

horse-power, and the fourth grade to take charge of any hoisting or
portable plant of machinery; and the said certificate shall run for the
term of one year, and shall be renewed annually, the term of begin-
ning of said certificate to be from the date of the examination of the
respective applicants; provided, that no engineer having such certifi-
cate 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 a certificate, aforesaid, shall be placed in charge of machin-
ery by any engineer who has.

313.

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 Engi-
neers" for examination and certificate of proficiency, before he can
[puruse] 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 stationary engine,
who at the time of the adoption of this Article shall have been em-
ployed at the same place for the term of six years or more, shall not
be required to apply for such examination and certificate; but when-
ever 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,
not to] engineers running country saw and grist mills, threshing
machines and other machinery of a similar character, [nor] or to
marine engineers engaged in steamboats, ships and other vessels run
by steam, [nor] or to those engaged as locomotive engineers of any
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 duty of said board to immediately hear such charge, and if sus-
tained, annul such certificate [.]; and the engineer against whom
the charge is made shall be given due notice thereof and an oppor-
tunity of being heard in person or by counsel. The certificate granted
to the respective applicants; including a photograph of each respec-
tively, must be framed and kept in a conspicuous place at such place
as such person may be respectively at work. Any person violating
the provisions of this [subdivision] subtitle of this Article shall be
deemed guilty of a misd