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AN ACT to Establish a Board of Inspectors for Steam Vessels and Steam Boilers, and to Provide for Licensing Engineers of Steam Engines.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. BOARD, HOW APPOINTED-TERM OF OFFICE.] There shall be appointed by the Governor a Board of Inspectors, consisting of one from each of the several judicial districts of the State, whose duty it shall be to inspect all steam boilers in use within his district, not subject to inspection under the laws of the United States, and to examine and grant certificates of license to all steam engineers entrusted with the care and management of steam boilers within said district. Said inspectors shall hold their respective offices for two years from the date of appointment, unless removed for cause by the Governor.

§ 2. ELIGIBILITY.] No person shall be eligible to hold office of inspector of boilers who is either directly or indirectly interested in the manufacture or sale of boilers or steam machinery, or any patented article required to be used or of general use in the construction of steam boilers or engines, or who is not of good moral character, a practical engineer, and suitably qualified by experience in the construction of steam boilers, or such experience in their manufacture as to enable him to perform the duties of the office, and no person shall enter upon or perform any of the duties of inspector who has not taken and subscribed an oath, and filed the same with the Secretary of the State, that he will faithfully and impartially perform the duties of his office.

§ 3. DUTIES OF BOARD.] Said inspectors shall, in April next after the passage of this act, and each year thereafter, meet as a board at Bismarck, North Dakota, and establish such rules and regulations for the inspection of the steam boilers herein provided for, as shall be required by the terms of this chapter. They shall also prescribe rules and regulations for the inspection of the hulls, machinery, boilers, steam connections, fire apparatus, life saving appliances and equipments of all steamers, propelled in whole or in part by steam,