274 ENGINEERS' LICENSE LAWS 



other persons may make application to be examined for a 

 license to act as engineer: 



(a) Any person who has been employed as a fireman, as 

 an oiler, or a as general assistant under the instructions of a 

 licensed engineer in any building or buildings in the city of 

 New York, for a period of not less than 5 yr. 



(&) Any person who has served as a fireman, oiler, or gen- 

 eral assistant t.o the engineer on any steamship, steamboat, 

 or on any locomotive engine for the period of 5 yr. and shall 

 have been employed for 2 yr. under a licensed engineer in a 

 building in the city of New York. 



(c) Any person who has learned the trade of machinist, 

 or boilermaker, or steam fitter and worked at such trade for 

 3 yr. exclusive of time served as apprentice, or while learning 

 such trade, and also any person who has graduated as a 

 mechanical engineer from a duly established school of tech- 

 nology, after such person has had an experience of 2 yr. in the 

 engineering department of any building or buildings in charge 

 of a licensed engineer, in the city of New York. 



(d) Any person who holds a certificate as engineer issued 

 to him by any duly qualified board of examining engineers exist- 

 ing pursuant to law in any state or territory of the United 

 States and who shall file with his application a copy of such cer- 

 tificate and an affidavit that he is the identical person to whom 

 said certificate was issued. If the board of examiners of engi- 

 neers shall determine the applicant has complied with the 

 requirements of this section, he shall be examined as to his 

 qualifications to have charge of, and operate steam boilers and 

 steam engines in the city of New York, and if found qualified 

 said board shall issue to him a certificate of the third class. 

 After the applicant has worked for a period of 2 yr. under his 

 certificate of the third class, he may be again examined by 

 said board for a certificate of the second class, and if found 

 worthy the said board may issue to him such certificate of the 

 second class. After he has worked for a period of 1 yr. under 

 said certificate of the second class he may be examined for a 

 certificate of the first class, and when it shall be made to appear 

 to the satisfaction of said board of examiners that the appli- 

 cant for either of said grades lacks mechanical skill, is a person 



