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such service and facilities as shall be safe and adequate and in
all respects just and reasonable. All charges made or de-
manded by any such common carrier for the transportation of
passengers, freight or property, or for any service rendered or
to be rendered in connection therewith, as defined in Section 2
of this Act, shall be just and reasonable and not more than
allowed by law or by order of the Commission, conformably
with the law. Every unjust or unreasonable charge made or
demanded for any such service or transportation of passengers,
freight or property, or in connection therewith, or in excess of
that allowed by law or by order of the Commission, conform-
ably with the law, is unlawful and prohibited.

The Public Service Commission herein created and estab-
lished shall have the general supervision of all common carriers,
railroads, street railroads, railroad corporations and street
railroad corporations, transporting passengers, freight or prop-
erty from one point to another within the State of Maryland,
and shall have power to and shall examine the same or cause
the same to be examined and keep informed as to their gen-
eral condition, their capitalization, their franchises and the
manner in which their lines, owned, leased, controlled or oper-
ated and managed, are conducted or operated within this State
both with respect to the adequacy, security and accommoda-
tion afforded by their service, and also with respect to their
compliance with all provisions of law and orders of the Com-
mission.

The Commissioner shall have power and authority to admin-
ister oaths in all parts of the State to witnesses summoned to
testify in any inquiry, investigation, hearing or proceeding,
and also to administer oaths in all parts of the State whenever
the exercise of such power is incidentally necessary or proper
to enable the Commission or a Commissioner to perform a duty
or to exercise a power committed to it by this Act. The Com-
mission and each Commissioner shall have power to examine
all books, contracts, records, documents and papers of any
corporation, company, association, person or partnership sub-
ject to its supervision, in so far as they relate to the matters
over which said Commission has jurisdiction and control, and
by subpoena duces tecum to compel production thereof. In
lieu of requiring production of originals by subpoena duces
tecum, the Commission, or any Commissioner, may require
sworn copies of any such books, records, contracts, documents
and papers, or parts thereof, to be filed with it.

SWITCH AND SIDE-TRACK CONNECTIONS.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That a railroad corpora-
tion, upon the application of any shipper tendering traffic for