944 WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION [ART. 101

ments or papers ordered filed by the Commission or by its rules, of
decisions or orders made by. any member of the Commission and of all
decisions or orders made by the Commission.or approved and confirmed
by it and ordered filed, and he shall be responsible to the Commission
for the safe custody and preservation of all such documents at its
office. He shall have the power to administer oaths in all parts of the
State, so far as the exercise of such power is properly incident to the
performance of his duty or that of the Commission. Pie may designate,
from time to time with the approval of the Commission, one of the
clerks of the office appointed by the Commission to exercise the powers
and duties of the secretary during his absence. Under the direction
of the Commission, the secretary shall have general charge of its office,
superintend its clerical business and perform such other duties as the
Commission may prescribe.

1914, ch. 800, sec. 7.

7. Each member of the Commission, the Secretary thereof, and any
special examiner or inspector shall for the purpose contemplated by
this article have power to issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of
witnesses, administer oaths, certify to official acts, take depositions
within or without the State of Maryland as now provided by law, com-
pel the production of pertinent books, payrolls, accounts, papers, rec-
ords, documents and testimony.

If a person in attendance before the Commission or a Commissioner
refuse, without reasonable cause, to be examined or to answer a legal
and pertinent question, or to produce a book or paper when ordered
to do so by the Commission, the Commission may apply to any Judge
of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City, or of the Circuit Court of
any County, upon proof by affidavit of the fact, for a rule or order
returnable in not less than two or more than five days, directing such
person to show cause before the Judge who made the order, or any
other Judge aforesaid, why he should not be committed to jail; upon
the return of such order, the Judge before whom the matter and such
person shall come on for a hearing shall examine under oath such per-
son and such person shall be given an opportunity to be heard; and if
the Judge shall determine that such person has refused, without reason-
able cause or legal excuse, to be examined or to answer a legal or perti-
nent question, or to produce a book or paper which he was ordered
to bring or produce, he may forthwith commit the offender to jail, there
to remain until he submits to do the act which he was so required to
do, or is discharged according to law...

No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any
books or papers or documents in any investigation or inquiry by or
upon any hearing before the Commission or any Commissioner, when
ordered to do so by the Commission or its Secretary, upon the ground
that the testimony or evidence, books, papers, or documents required
of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or for-