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are required to pass a third-class engineer's examination and 

 procure the same kind of license. Engineers holding licenses 

 of any of the preceding classes, and who are entrusted with 

 the care and management of traction engines, or engines or 

 boilers on wheels, other than locomotives, are required to pass 

 an examination as to their competency to operate such class of 

 machinery, and to procure a license known as a traction license. 

 Such traction license shall not entitle the holder thereof to 

 operate any other class of machinery. 



All certificates of license to engineers of all classes shall be 

 renewed yearly. The fee for renewal is $1 in all cases. The 

 fee for the examination of applicants for engineers' license? 

 is $7.50 for first-class engineers, $5 for second-class engineers, 

 $3 for third-class engineers, and $3 for traction engineers. 

 Fees must be paid at the time of application for license. In 

 case of the failure of any applicant co pass a successful exami- 

 nation, 90 da. must elapse before he can again be examined 

 as an applicant for license in the class for which he was exam- 

 ined. *But the inspector may grant to the applicant a lower 

 grade of license than applied for on such examination. 



Ohio. In the state of Ohio, the license laws are administered 

 by the chief examiner of steam engineers and a number of 

 district examiners. The chief examiner is appointed by the 

 governor of the state, and the district examiners are appointed 

 by the chief examiner, with the approval of the governor. 



The laws state that any person who desires to act as a 

 steam engineer shall make application to the district examiner 

 of steam engineers for a license so to act, on a blank furnished 

 by the examiner, and shall successfully pass an examination 

 on the construction and operation of steam boilers, steam 

 engines, and steam pumps, and also hydraulics, under such 

 rules and regulations as may be adopted by the chief examiner, 

 which rules and regulations and standards of examination, 

 however, shall be uniform throughout the state. If, on such 

 examination, the applicant is found to be proficient in the 

 prescribed subjects, a license shall be granted him to have 

 charge of and operate stationary steam boilers and engines. 

 It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a stationary 

 steam boiler or engine of more than 30 H. P. without having 



