UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION 3533

(h) (Oaths and Witnesses.) In the discharge of the duties imposed
by this Article, the Board and any duly authorized representative or mem-
ber of the Board of Review shall have power to administer oaths and
affirmations, take depositions, certify to official acts, and issue subpoenas
to be served by the Sheriff of Baltimore City, and in the Counties in the
manner in which Court subpoenas are served, to compel the attendance of
witnesses and the production of books, papers, correspondence, memoranda,
and other records deemed necessary as evidence in connection with a dis-
puted claim or the administration of this Article.

(i) (Subpoenas.) In case of contumacy by or refusal to obey a sub-
poena issued to any person, any court of this State within the jurisdiction
of which the inquiry is carried on or within the jurisdiction of which said
person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey is found or resides or trans-
acts business, upon application by the Board or its duly authorized repre-
sentative, shall have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requir-
ing such person to appear before the Board or its duly authorized repre-
sentative, or the Board of Review, there to produce evidence if so ordered
or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or
in question; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be pun-
ished by said court as a contempt thereof. Any person who shall without
just cause fail or refuse to attend and testify or to answer any lawful
inquiry or to produce books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and
other records, if it is in his power so to do, in obedience to a subpoena of
the Board, its duly authorized agent, or the Board of Review, shall be
punished by a fine of not more than $1,000. or by imprisonment for not
longer than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and each
day such violation continues shall be deemed to be a separate offense.

(j) (Protection Against Self-Incrimination.) No person shall be ex-
cused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, cor-
respondence, memoranda, and other records before the Board or in obedi-
ence to the subpoena of the Board of Review or any member thereof in
any cause or proceeding before the Board of Review, on the ground that
the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may
tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no
individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture
for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which
he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimina-
tion, to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, except that
such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and
punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.

(k) (State-Federal Cooperation.) In the administration of this Article,
the Board shall cooperate to the fullest extent consistent with the provi-
sions of this Article, with the Social Security Board, created by the Social
Security Act, approved August 14, 1935, as amended; shall make such
reports, in such form and containing such information as the Social Secu-
rity Board may from time to time require, and shall comply with such
provisions as the Social Security Board may from time to time find neces-
sary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; and shall
comply with the regulations prescribed by the Social Security Board gov-
erning the expenditures of such sums as may be allotted and paid to this
State under Title III of the Social Security Act for the purpose of assist-
ing in the administration of this Article.