CORPORATIONS 951

or any commissioner, may require sworn copies of any such books, records,
contracts, documents and papers, or parts thereof, to be filed with it.

Commission has no jurisdiction to authorize sale by municipality of property dedi-
cated to public use; powers conferred upon commission are of a regulatory nature and
do not include either granting or withdrawal of franchises. Worcester v. Hancock,
151 Md. 678.

The words "conformably to the law" do not limit the powers of the P. S. C. to
increase rates. Commission may authorize United Railways to charge a fare in ex-
cess of that prescribed by the act of 1900, ch. 313. Implied repeal. Gregg v. Public
Service Commission, 121 Md. 1, reviewed. Chenoweth v. Public Service Com., 143
Md. 624.

See notes to secs. 344, 346, 376, 381 and 391.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 363. 1912, sec. 426. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 14 (p. 355).

369. A railroad corporation, upon the application of any shipper ten-
dering traffic for transportation, shall construct, maintain and operate upon
reasonable terms a switch connection or connections with a lateral line of
railroad or private side-track owned, operated or controlled by such ship-
per, and shall, upon the application of any shipper, provide upon its own
property a side-track and switch connection with its line of railroad, when-
ever such side-track and switch connection is reasonably practicable, can
be put in with safety and the business therefor is sufficient to justify the
same.

If any railroad corporation shall fail to install or operate any such
switch connection with a lateral line or railroad, or any such side-track
and switch connection as aforesaid, after written application therefor has
been made to it, any corporation or person interested may present the facts
to the commission by written petition, and the commission shall investigate
the matter stated in such petition, and give such hearings herein as it may
deem necessary or proper. If the commission be of the opinion that it is
safe and practicable to have a connection, substantially as prayed for,
established or maintained, and that the business to be done thereon justifies
the construction and maintenance thereof, it shall make an order directing
the construction and establishment thereof, specifying the reasonable com-
pensation to be paid for the construction, establishment and maintenance
thereof, and may in like manner upon the application of the railroad
corporation, order the discontinuance of such switch connection.

See notes to sec. 391.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 364. 1912, sec. 427. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 15 (p. 356).

370. Every common carrier shall file with the commission having juris-
diction, and shall print and keep open to public inspection, schedules show-
ing the rates, fares and charges for the transportation of passengers and
property within the State between each point upon its route and all other
points thereon; and between each point upon its route, and all points upon
every route leased, operated or controlled by it; and between each point
on its route or upon any route leased, operated or controlled by it, and
all points upon the route of any other common carrier, whenever a through
route and joint route shall have been established or ordered between any
two such points. If no joint rate over the through route has been established,
the several carriers in such through route shall. file, print and keep open
to public inspection, as aforesaid, the separately established rates, fares and
charges applied to the through transportation. The schedules printed as
aforesaid shall plainly state the places between which property and passen-
gers will be carried, and shall also contain the classification of passengers,