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for another license for such other plant, for which other license 

 if application be made within a year, no charge shall be 

 made. For annual renewals of such licenses, a fee of $1 shall 

 be paid. 



The board may at any time revoke any license for cause, 

 such as incompetency, neglect, or inebriety. In case a license 

 is revoked, application may be made for a new license 6 mo. 

 after, and on examination, provided the applicant is found 

 qualified, the board may grant a license to him. 



New York, N. Y. The engineer's license laws for the city 

 of New York are, in part, as follows: 



No owner, or agent of such owner, or lessee of any steam 

 boiler to generate steam shall employ any person as engineer 

 or to operate such boiler unless such person shall first obtain 

 a certificate as to qualification therefor from a board of prac- 

 tical engineers detailed as such by the police department, such 

 certificate to be countersigned by the officer in command of 

 the sanitary company of the police department of the city of 

 New York. In order to be qualified to be examined for and 

 to receive such certificate of qualification as an engineer, a 

 person must comply, to the satisfaction of said board, with the 

 f ol lowing requirements : 



1. He must be a citizen of the United States and over 21 

 yr. of age. 



2. He must, on his first application for examination, fill 

 out, in his own handwriting, a blank application to be prepared 

 and supplied by the said board of examiners, and which shall 

 contain the name, age, and place of residence of the applicant, 

 the place or places where employed and the nature of his 

 employment for 5 yr. prior to the date of his application, and 

 a statement that he is a citizen of the United States. The appli- 

 cation shall be verified by him, and shall, after the verification, 

 contain a certificate signed by three engineers, employed in 

 New York City and registered on the books of said board of 

 examiners as engineers working at their trade, certifying that 

 the statements contained in such application are true. Such 

 application shall be filed with said board. 



3. The following persons, who have first complied with the 

 provisions of subdivisions one and two of this section, and no 



