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feiture; but no person shall be prosecuted, punished or subjected to
any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any act, transaction,
matter or thing concerning which he shall, under oath; have, by order
of the Commission or a Commissioner or its inspector or examiner, tes-
tified to or produced documentary evidence of; provided, however,
that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or pun-
ishment for any perjury committed by him in his testimony.

1914, ch. 800, sec. 8.

8. Each officer who serves such subpoena shall receive the same fee
as the Sheriff would receive in the county or city where said witness
is subpoenaed, and each witness who appears in obedience to a sub-
poena, before the Commission or an inspector or an examiner, shall
receive for his attendance the fees and mileage provided for witnesses
in civil cases in the Circuit Courts of the Counties or the Common
Law Courts of Baltimore City, as of the place where he gives his testi-
mony, which shall be audited and paid from the State Treasury in the
same manner as other vouchers approved by any member of the Com-
mission and the Secretary. No witness subpoenaed at the instance of
a party other than the Commission, or an inspector or examiner, shall
be entitled to compensation from the State Treasury unless the Com-
mission shall certify that his testimony was material to the matter
investigated. In an investigation, the Commission may cause deposi-
tions of witnesses residing within or without the State to be taken in
the manner prescribed by law for like depositions taken in cases pend-
ing before the Circuit Courts of the Counties or the Common Law
Courts of Baltimore City, as is now or hereafter may be provided by
law.

1914, ch. 800, sec. 9.

9. Subject to the provisions of this article, the State Industrial
Accident Commission shall adopt reasonable and proper rules to gov-
ern its procedure, which procedure shall be as summary and simple as
reasonably may be. It shall regulate and provide for the kind and
character of notices, and the services thereof, and in cases of injury
by accident to employes, the nature and extent of the proofs and evi-
dence and the method of taking and furnishing the same for the estab-
lishment of the right to compensation. It shall determine the nature
and forms of application of those claiming to be entitled to benefits or
compensation, and shall regulate the method of making investigations,
physical examinations and inspections and prescribe the time within
which adjudications and awards shall be made, provided, always, that
all such rules and regulations shall conform to the provisions of this
article.

1914, ch. £00, sec. 10.

10. The Commission shall not be bound by the usual common law"
or statutory rules of evidence or by any technical or formal rules of
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