Mine Inspectors

Gollmak, Dep. Att’y-Gen.,

Your favor of the 13th ult., addressed to the Attorney-General, is at hand. You ask to be advised whether the Mine Examining Board is justified in refusing to grant a certificate of qualification to an applicant for the office of mine inspector who has reached his fiftieth birthday, even though he possesses all the other qualifications required by the act.

Section 3, article xix, of the Act of June 9, 1911, P., L. 756, relating to the qualifications of bituminous mine inspectors, provides:

*17“The qualifications of candidates for the office of inspector shall be certified…