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shall be paid monthly accompanied by a detailed statement thereof into
the treasury of the State, and become part of the general funds of the State.

1922, ch. 322.

356. The provisions of the preceding section shall have no application
to typewritten copies of the testimony or evidence taken or prodiiced before
the Commission at hearings, and furnished in connection with such hear-
ings, to persons or corporations, subject to the jurisdiction of the Com-
mission and parties to the proceedings involved in such hearings, by any
one of the official stenographers of the Commission at such hearings, at the
request of such individuals or corporations but it shall be the duty of the
Commission from time to time to regulate by its order or orders the
amounts which shall be charged by its official stenographers for such copies.

An. Code, sec. 421. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 9 (p. 351).

357. All subpoenas shall be signed and issued by the commissioners or
by the secretary of the commission, and may be served by any person of
full age. The fees of witnesses required to attend before the commission
or a commissioner shall, where the hearing is in Baltimore city, be the
same as allowed by the courts of Baltimore city for the attendance of wit-
nesses in cases before them, and where the hearing is in any of the counties,
shall be the same as allowed by the circuit court of the county in which the
hearing takes place, for attendance of witnesses before it, and the dis-
bursements made in the payment of such fees shall be duly audited in
accordance with a due and satisfactory method of auditing and bookkeep-
ing, and shall be included in and paid in the same manner as is provided
for the payment of other expenses of the commission. It shall be the duty
of every public officer, without exacting or receiving charge or fee of any
kind, to furnish to the commission, upon its application, a certified copy
of any document, or part thereof, on file in his office, and no public officer
shall be entitled to receive from the commission any fee for entering, filing,
docketing or recording any document required or authorized by law to be
filed in his office.

If a person subpoenaed to attend before the commission or a commis-
sioner fail to obey the command of such subpoena, without reasonable cause,
or if a person in attendance before the commission or a commissioner shall,
without a reasonable cause, refuse to be sworn or to be examined, or answer
a question, or to produce a book or paper when ordered to do so by the
commission or a commissioner, or to subscribe or swear to his deposition
after it has been correctly produced in writing, he shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and may be prosecuted therefor in any court of competent
criminal jurisdiction.

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 or commissioner, the commission or commissioner may
apply to any judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore city or of the circuit
court for any county, upon proof by affidavit of the fact, for a rule or order