734 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

legislation with respect to any further matter within its jurisdiction
as it deems wise or necessary in the public interest, and may draft
or cause to be drafted such bills or acts as it may deem necessary or
proper to enact into law the legislation recommended by it.

1910, ch. 180, sec. 21 (p. 363).

433. The commission shall prescribe the form of the annual reports
required under this sub-title to be made by common carriers, railroads,
street railroads, railroad corporations and street railroad corporations,
and all other corporations subject to the provisions of this sub-title, and
may from time to time make such changes therein and additions thereto
as it may deem proper; provided, however, that if any such changes
or additions require any alteration in the method or form of keeping
the accounts of such corporation, the commission shall give to them
at least six months' notice before the expiration of any fiscal year of
any such changes or additions, and on or before June 30th, in each
year, shall furnish a blank form for such report. The contents of
such report, and the form, thereof, shall conform as nearly as possible
to that required of common carriers under the provisions of the act of
congress entitled "An Act to Regulate Commerce," approved February
fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the act amendatory
thereof approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and
other amendments thereto. The commission may require such report to
contain information in relation to rates or regulations concerning fares
or freights, agreements or contracts affecting the same, so far as such
rates or regulations pertain to transportation within the State. When
the report of any person or corporation is defective, or believed to be
erroneous, the commission shall notify it to amend the same within a
time prescribed by the commission. The originals of the reports, sub-
scribed and sworn to as prescribed by law, shall be preserved in the
office of the commission. The commission may also require common
carriers to file periodically reports of earnings and expenses within a
specified time. The commission may require of all common carriers speci-
fic answers to questions upon which the commission may need informa-
tion. The annual report required to be filed by a common carrier shall
be so filed on or before the thirtieth day of September in each year.
The commission may extend the time for making and filing such
report for a period not exceeding sixty days. If such common carrier
shall fail to make and file the annual report within the time above
specified, or within the time as extended by the commission, or shall
fail to make -specific answer to any question, or shall fail to make the
periodic reports when required by the commission as herein provided,
within thirty days from the time when it is required to make and file
any such report or answer, such common carrier shall forfeit to the
State the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every day it shall
continue to be in default with respect to such report or answer. Such
forfeiture shall be recovered in an action brought by the commission