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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, neces-
sary 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 Com-
mission, 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.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 6. 1912, 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 preservation 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 Com-
mission 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, superintend its clerical business and perform
such other duties as the Commission may prescribe.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 7. 1912, 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
testimony.

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, the Commission may apply to any Judge of the Su-
preme Bench.of Baltimore City, or of the Circuit Court of any County,
upon proof by affidavit of the fact, for a rule or order returnable in not less
than two or more than five days, directing such person to show cause before

¹ This section amended by Ch. 732 of the Acts of 1939 but see footnote at beginning
of this Article.