CORPORATIONS 945

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
returnable in not less than two nor more than five days, directing such
person to show cause before the judge who made the order, or any other
judge aforesaid, why he should not be committed to jail; upon the return
of such order, the judge before whom the matter shall come on for a hear-
ing shall examine under oath such person, and such person shall be given
an opportunity to be heard; and if the judge shall determine that such
person has refused, without reasonable cause or legal excuse, to be examined
or to answer a legal and pertinent question, or to produce a book or paper
which he was ordered to bring or produce, he may forthwith commit the
offender to jail, there to remain until he submits to do the act which he
was so required to do, or is discharged according to law.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 358. 1912, sec. 422. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 10 (p. 353).

358. All hearings before the commission or commissioner shall be
governed by rules to be adopted and prescribed by the commission. And
in all investigations, inquiries or hearings the commission, or a commis-
sioner, shall not be bound by the technical rules of evidence.No person
shall be excused from testifying or from producing any books or papers in
any investigation or inquiry by or upon any hearing before the commission
or any commissioner, when ordered to do so by the commission, upon the
ground that the testimony or evidence, books or documents required of him
may tend to incriminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture; but
no person shall be prosecuted, punished or subjected to any penalty or for-
feiture for on account of any act, transaction, matter or thing concerning
which he shall, under oath, have, by order of the commission or a com-
missioner, testified or produced documentary evidence; provided, however,
that no person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punish-
ment for any perjury committed by him in his testimony. Nothing herein
contained is intended to give, or shall be construed as in any manner giving
unto any corporation immunity of any kind from the law.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 359. 1912, sec. 423. 1910, ch. 180, sec. 11 (p. 353). 1927, ch. 354.

359. After an order has been made by the Commission, any party inter-
ested therein may apply for a rehearing in respect to any matter deter-