166 LAWS GOVERNING MARINE INSPECTION 



SUBCHAPTER 6C.— ENGINEERS 

 Licenses of engineers 



46 U.S.C. 229 (R.S. 4441) 



Whenever any person applies for authority to perform the duties 

 of engineer of any steam vessel, the Coast Guard shall examine the 

 applicant as to his knovrledge of steam machinery and his experience 

 as an engineer, and also the proofs which he produces in support of his 

 claim; and if, upon full consideration, it is satisfied that his character, 

 habits of life, knowledge, and experience in the duties of an engineer 

 are all such as to authorize the belief that he is a suitable and safe 

 person to be intrusted with the powers and duties of such a station, it 

 shall grant him a license, authorizing him to be employed in such duties 

 for the term of five years, in which it shall assign him to the appropri- 

 ate class of engineers ; but such license shall be suspended or revoked 

 upon satisfactory proof of negligence, unskill fulness, intemperance, 

 or the willful violation of any provision of title 52 of the Eevised 

 Statutes. "Whenever complaint is made against any engineer holding 

 a license authorizing him to take charge of the boilers and machinery 

 of any steamer, that he has, through negligence or want of skill, 

 permitted the boilers in his charge to bum or otherwise become in bad 

 condition, or that he has not kept his engine and machinery in good 

 working order, it shall be the duty of the Coast Guard, upon satis- 

 factory proof of such negligence or want of skill, to revoke the license 

 of such engineer and assign him to a lower grade or class of engineers, 

 if it finds him fitted therefor. 



