944 ARTICLE 23

its possession, such facts may be withheld for such period after the acqui-
sition thereof not exceeding ninety days, as the commission may determine.
No facts or information shall be withheld by the commission from the
public for a longer period than ninety days, nor be so withheld for any
reason whatsoever other than in the interest of the public.
. Copies of all official documents and orders filed or deposited according
to law in the office of the commission, certified by the commission or by
the secretary of the commission to be true copies of the originals, under
the official seal of the commission, shall be evidence in like manner as the
originals.

The commission shall charge and collect the following fees: For copies
of papers and records not required to be certified or otherwise authenticated
by the commission, ten cents for each folio; for certified copies of official
documents and orders filed in its office, fifteen cents for each folio, and one
dollar for every certificate under seal affixed thereto; for certifying a copy
of any report made by any corporation to the commission, two dollars; for
each certified :copy of the annual report of the commission, one dollar and
fifty cents; for certified copies of all evidence and proceedings taken before
the commission, twenty cents for each folio. No fee shall be charged or
collected for copies of papers, records or official documents furnished to
public officers for use in their official capacity, or for the annual reports
of the commission in the ordinary course of distribution. All fees charged
and collected by the commission shall belong to the State of Maryland and
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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 356. 1922, ch. 322.

356. The provisions of the preceding section shall have no application
to typewritten copies of the testimony or evidence taken or produced 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, 1924, sec. 357. 1912, 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