CORPORATIONS 943

An. Code, 1924, sec. 354. 1912, sec. 419. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 7 (p. 349). 1924, ch. 534,
sec. 419. 1927, ch. 201, sec. 7.

354. Every commissioner, the general counsel to the commission, the
People's Counsel, the secretary of the commission and every person em-
ployed or appointed to office under, in the service or in connection with the
said commission, is hereby forbidden and prohibited to solicit, suggest,
request or recommend, directly or indirectly, to any common carrier, rail-
road corporation, street railroad corporation, gas company, electric light
company, telephone company, telegraph company, water company and
refrigerating company, or any other company or corporation subject to this
sub-title, or to any of the provisions thereof, or to any officer, attorney,
agent or employee thereof, the appointment of any person to any office,
place, position or appointment. And every common carrier, railroad cor-
porationj street railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation,
telephone company, telegraph company, water company, and all other com-
panies or corporations subject to this sub-title or any of the provisions
thereof, and every officer, attorney, agent and employee thereof is hereby
forbidden and prohibited to offer to any commissioner, general counsel to
the commission, or the People's Counsel, to the secretary of the commis-
sion, or to any person employed by the commission, any office, place, ap-
pointment or position, or to offer to give to any commissioner, to the
general counsel to the commission, to the People's Counsel, to the secretary
of the commission or to any officer employed or appointed to office, or to
any person employed in the service of the commission or in connection with
the work of said commission, any free pass or transportation or any reduc-
tion in fares, to which the public generally are not entitled, or any free
carriage for freight or property, or any present, gift or gratuity of any
kind. If any commissioner, general counsel to the commission, the People's
Counsel, the secretary of the commission, or any person employed or ap-
pointed to office or in the service of the commission shall violate any pro-
visions of this sub-title, the Governor shall remove him from the office held
by him. No commissioner and no employee or official engaged in the serv-
ice of or in any manner connected with the said commission shall hold any
office or position, or be engaged in any business or avocation, the duties of
which are incompatible with the duties of his office or employment as com-
missioner, or in the service of or in connection with the work of the said
commission.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 355. 1912, sec. 420. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 8 (p. 350). 1916, ch. 638.

355. All proceedings of the commission, and all documents and records
in its possession, shall be public records, and the commission shall make
an annual report to the governor and to the general assembly, on or before
the second Monday of January of each year, which shall contain copies of
all orders passed and issued by it, and any information in the. possession
of the commission which it shall deem of value to the legislature and the
people of the State.

All facts and information in the possession of the commission shall be
public, and all reports, records, files, books, accounts, papers and memo-
randa of every nature whatsoever in their possession, shall be open to in-
spection by the public at all reasonable times; provided, however, that
whenever the commission shall determine it shall be necessary in the inter-
ests of the public to withhold from the public any facts or information in