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the board the sum of $3 for each certificate so issued, and tor 

 all renewals of all grades the sum of $1.50. 



The certificates shall be of three grades. A certificate of the 

 first grade will permit the holder to take charge of any plant 

 of machinery; one of the second grade, to take charge of any 

 plant of machinery from 1 to 500 H. P.; and one of the third 

 grade, to take charge of any plant of machinery from 1 to 

 30 H. P. The said certificate shall run for the term of 1 yr. 

 and shall be renewed annually. 



All persons desiring to fill a position as a stationary engineer 

 must make application to the board of examining engineers, 

 with the following exceptions: Persons who are running 

 engines and boilers in sparsely settled country places, where 

 not more than twenty persons are engaged in work about such 

 engines and boilers; engineers running country saw mills and 

 grist mills, threshing machines, and other machinery of a 

 similar character; marine engineers engaged in steamboats or 

 any vessel run by steam; and persons engaged as locomotive 

 engineers of any steam railway company. 



The law also states that the headquarters of the board shall 

 be in Baltimore and that it shall meet at least once in every 

 -week, and at a specified hour and day shall sit until all applicants 

 shall be examined. If there are too many applicants to examine 

 on the regular day for the purpose, the board shall continue 

 its sessions until all applicants have been examined. 



Buffalo, N. Y. -Every person within the city limits of the 

 city of Buffalo in charge of or operating any steam engine or 

 steam boiler (excepting persons operating locomotive steam 

 engines or marine engines, or persons licensed as engineers by 

 the authorities of the United States, or persons in charge of 

 any steam engine or boiler in any of the public-school build- 

 ings, or any engineer while in the employ of the fire depart- 

 ment of the city) shall appear in person before the examiner 

 of stationary engineers for examination as to his qualifications 

 as a stationary engineer, and if found qualified, shall be duly 

 licensed, as the ordinance provides. But such persons who 

 have charge of any steam boiler or steam engine in public- 

 school buildings of the city shall be examined as to their 

 qualifications to have charge of same. 



