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or controlling the same; and to gas and electric plants, and to persons
or corporations owning, operating, leasing or controlling the same.

6. To all telephone lines, as above defined, and all telegraph lines
as above defined, and to every telephone company, and to every tele-
graph company, so far as said telephone and telegraph lines are and
lie, and so far as said telephone companies and said telegraph com-
panies conduct and operate such line or lines, respectively, within this
State.

7. To all water companies and to the land, property, dams, water
supplies, canals or power stations thereof and the operation of the
same within this State.

8. To all persons, corporations or partnerships engaged in the "trans-
portation of property or freight," as above defined, within this State.

9. To all corporations and persons whatsoever subject to the provi-
sions of this sub-title as herein defined.

And to such other and further extent, and to all such other and addi-
tional matters and things, and in such further respects as may herein
appear, either expressly or impliedly.

1910, ch. 180, sec. 4 (p. 347).

416. The principal office of the commission shall be in the city of
Baltimore, at such place therein as said commission shall select and
determine from time to time. The commission shall hold stated meet-
ings at least once a week during the year at its office. The commission
shall have an official seal, which shall be prepared and furnished by the
secretary of state. The offices of the commission shall be supplied with
all necessary books, maps, charts, stationery, office furniture, telephone
and telegraph connections, and all other necessary appliances and inci-
dentals, to be paid for in the same manner as other expenses authorized
by this sub-title.

The offices of said commission shall be open for business between
the hours of eight o'clock in the morning and nine o'clock at night
every day in the year, and one or more responsible persons, to be desig-
nated by the commission or by the secretary, under the direction of the
commission, shall be on duty 'at all times, in immediate charge thereof.

The commission shall promptly and duly organize. A majority of
the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any
business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise of any
power of the commission, and may hold meetings of the commission
at any time and place within the State. Any investigation, inquiry or
hearing which the commission has power to undertake or hold, may be
undertaken or held by or before any one of said commissioners, upon
condition, however, that such commissioner shall have first been author-
ized by the commission to undertake to hold such investigation, inquiry
or hearing; and all investigations, inquiries or hearings of or by a
commissioner shall be and be deemed to be the investigations, inquiries
and hearings of the commission; provided, however, that each and all