EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 873

the accounts of such corporations, the commission shall give to
them at least six months' notice before the expiration of any
fiscal year of any such changes or additions, and on or be-
fore December 31st, in each year, shall furnish a blank
form for such report. The contents of such report, and
the form thereof, shall conform as nearly as possible to that
required of common carriers under the provisions of the Act
of Congress entitled "An Act to Regulate Commerce," ap-
proved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,
and the Act amendatory thereof approved June twenty-ninth,
nineteen hundred and six, and other amendments thereto, and
such report shall be made for the period of twelve months end-
ing December thirty-first in each year. The commission may
require such report to contain information in relation to rates
or regulations concerning fares or freights, or agreements or
contracts affecting the same, so far as such rates or regulations
pertain to transportation within the State. When the report
of any person or corporation is defective, or believed to be
erroneous, the commission shall notify it to amend the same
within a time prescribed by the commission. The originals
of the reports, subscribed and sworn to as prescribed by law,
shall be preserved in the office of the commission. The com-
mission may also require common carriers to file periodically
reports of earnings and expenses within a specified time. The
commission may require of all common carriers specific answer
to questions upon which the commission may need informa-
tion. The annual report required to be filed by a common
carrier shall be so filed on or before the thirty-first day of March
in each year. The commission may extend the time for making
and filing such report for a period not exceeding sixty days.
If such common carrier shall fail to make and file the annual
report within the time above specified, or within the time as
extended by the commission, or shall fail to make specific an-
swer to any question, or shall fail to make the periodic reports
when required by the commission as herein provided, within
thirty days from the time when it is required to make and file
any such report or answer, such common carrier shall forfeit
to the State the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every
day it shall continue to be in default with respect to such re-
port or answer. Such forfeiture shall be recovered in an
action brought by the commission in the name of the State of
Maryland. The amount recovered in any such action shall be
paid to the State Treasurer.