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132 CORPORATIONS. [ART. XXIII
this State and doing business in this State, shall be paid by such com-
pany his traveling and other expenses and such reasonable compensa-
tion as shall be fixed by the Insurance Commissioner, in addition to the
salary paid such official or employee out of the funds of said Depart-
ment. If the per diem and expenses in any case herein provided shall
remain unpaid after ten days from the completion of any such exami-
nation, the Insurance Commissioner may sue therefor. For the pur-
poses of any examination authorized by law, the Insurance Commis-
sioner, or the Insurance Examiner, shall have power and is hereby
authorized to summon any person or persons being within this State,
and to administer to him or them the proper and necessary oath, and to
examine him or them, under oath, in relation to the affairs and condi-
tions of any insurance company. In order that the public may be fully
informed as to the condition of all companies doing business in this
State, the result of the official examination of any such company, in
such condensed form as shall show the true condition of the company
examined, shall be published within thirty days thereafter by the Insur-
ance Commissioner, at the expense of said company, in one daily news-
paper published in the City of Baltimore. Should any insurance com-
pany organized under the laws of this State refuse to permit its affairs
to be examined as herein provided, or refuse free access to its books or
papers, or in any manner whatever prevent a thorough examination, the
said Insurance Commissioner shall proceed against said company in the
manner provided in the seventh sub-section of this section.
Seventh. Whenever the insurance commissioner shall have reason to
believe that any insurance company is insolvent, or fraudulently con-
ducted, or that its assets are not sufficient for carrying on the business
of the same, or during any non-compliance with the provisions of this
article, it shall be his duty to make complaint thereof to the judge of
either of the circuit courts of Baltimore city, or any judge of the circuit
court for the county where the company or agent may be located, as the
case may be; which judge shall, upon the requisition of the commis-
sioner, appoint a commission, consisting of the insurance commissioner
and two disinterested and competent persons, whose duty it shall be to
examine every detail of the business and condition of said company,
and report, in writing, the result of such examination to the judge
appointing them, who shall, if in his judgment the charges of insol-
vency, fraud, neglect or abuse, as charged by the insurance commis-
sioner, are sustained by the said report, at once issue an injunction
suspending the business of said company; and the insurance commis-
sioner shall institute, or cause to be instituted, the necessary proceed-
ings under the laws of this State, to close the affairs of any insurance
company of this State which shall appear to him, upon examination,
to be insolvent or be fraudulently conducted; and the insurance com-
missioner is a necessary party to any proceedings instituted for the
purpose of closing up the affairs of any insurance company, when the
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