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and fix their compensation subject to the written approval of the Governor;
such compensation shall be paid out of the appropriation in the State
Treasury provided for in this article. The secretary, actuaries, accountants,
inspectors, examiners, experts, clerks, stenographers and other assistants
that may be employed shall be entitled to receive their actual necessary
expenses while traveling on the business of the Commission. Such expenses
shall be itemized and sworn to by the person who incurred the expense, and
allowed by the Commission. The Commission shall keep and maintain its
main office and such branch offices as it shall deem proper and necessary for
the administration of the article, and shall provide suitable rooms, necessary
office furniture, supplies, books, periodicals and maps for the same. All
necessary expenses shall be audited and paid out of the appropriation in the
State Treasury provided for in this article. It shall provide itself with a
seal for the authentication of its orders, awards and proceedings, upon which
shall be inscribed the words " State Industrial Accident Commission, State
of Maryland—Official Seal."

Each member of the Commission and each person appointed to office or
employment by the Commission shall before entering upon the duties of
his office or employment take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office.

An. Code, sec. 6. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 6.

6. The Secretary of the Commission shall keep and maintain a full and
true record of all proceedings of the Commission, of all documents 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 preserva-
tion 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. He 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, superin-
tend its clerical business and perform such other duties as the Commission
may prescribe.

An. Code, sec. 7. 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, compel the production of
pertinent books, payrolls, accounts, papers, records, documents and testi-
mony.

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