1212 ARTICLE 32A.

their own counsel shall continue as now or hereafter prescribed or author-
ized by law; and notwithstanding anything in this Article contained, the
State reformatories and other State institutions may employ local counsel
to represent them in habeas corpus cases.1

Blue Sky Law.

1920, ch. 552, sec. 11.

11. If it shall appear to the Attorney-General of the State of Maryland
that in the issuance, sale, promotion, negotiation, advertisement of, or dis-
tribution of any stocks, bonds, notes or other securities within, the State of
Maryland, any person, partnership or corporation is employing or is about
to employ any device, scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money
or property by means of any false or fraudulent pretense, representation or
promise, or the said Attorney-General believes it to be in the interest of
the public that an investigation be made with a view to the issuance of an
order, such as herein provided, he may require such person, partnership or
corporation to file with him a statement in writing under oath as to all facts
concerning the same, and for that purpose may prescribe forms upon which
said statements shall be made. The Attorney-General may require, in
addition thereto, such further data and information as he may deem rele-
vant and make such special investigation as may be necessary, and for the
purposes of this sub-title the Attorney-General, or an Assistant Attorney-
General duly authorized by him, shall have power to require by subpoena or
summons, the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of
any books, accounts, records, papers and correspondence relating to any
matter which the Attorney-General is authorized by this sub-title to con-
sider or investigate. The Attorney-General, or his duly authorized assistant,
may sign subpoenas, administer oaths and affirmations, examine witnesses
and receive evidence. In case of disobedience to a subpoena or of the con-
tumacy of any witness appearing before the Attorney-General or his duly
authorized Assistant-Attorney-General, the Attorney-General may invoke
the aid of the Circuit Court of any of the Counties of the State of Maryland,
or of the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Such Court may thereupon
issue an order requiring the person subpoenaed to obey the subpoena or to
give evidence or produce books, accounts, records, papers and correspon-
dence touching the matter in question. Any failure to obey such order of the
Court may be punished by such Court as a contempt thereof. In the case of
a failure or refusal of any person, partnership or corporation concerned in
the issuance, sale, offer for sale, promotion, advertisement or distribution of
any stocks, bonds, notes or other securities within the State of Maryland, to
file any statement or to furnish any information, books, papers or records
required by the Attorney-General or his duly authorized Assistant, to be
filed or furnished in connection with such investigation under this sub-title,
the Attorney-General may issue his order under Section 12 of this Article.
See art. 48A, sec. 43.

1 Sec. 11 of the act of 1916, ch. 560, provides for the repeal of all acts and parts of acts
in conflict or inconsistent with said act of 1916, to the extent of such conflict or
inconsistency.