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all provisions of law, orders of the Commission and charter
requirements.

The Commission and each Commissioner shall have power to
examine all books, contracts, records, documents and papers of
any person or corporation subject to its supervision,, and by
subpoena duces tecum to compel the production thereof. In
lieu of requiring production of originals by the subpo3na 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.

The Commission shall conduct a hearing and take testimony
as to the advisability of any proposed change of law relating to
any common carrier, railroad, street railroad, railroad cor-
poration or street railroad corporation, or other corporation
subject to the provisions of this Act if requested to do so by the
Legislature, by the Senate, or General Assembly, or the Gov-
ernor, and may conduct such a hearing, when requested to do
so, by any person or corporation, and shall report its conclu-
sions to the officer, body, person or corporation at whose
request the hearing was held. The Commission may also rec-
ommend the enactment of such legislation with respect to any
further matter within its jurisdiction as it deems wise or nec-
essary in the public interest, and may draft or cause to be
drafted such bills or acts as it may deem necessary or proper
to enact into law the legislation recommended by it.

REPORTS OF COMMON CARRIERS, RAILROADS, STREET RAILROADS.

SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That the Commission
shall prescribe the form of the annual reports required under
this Act to be made by common carriers, railroads, street rail-
roads, railroad corporations and street railroad corporations,
and all other corporations subject to the provisions of this Act,
and may from time to time make such changes therein and
additions thereto as it may deem proper; provided, however,
that if any such changes or additions require any alteration
in the method or form of keeping the accounts of such corpora-
tions, 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 before June 30th, 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 provi-
sions of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to Regulate
Commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-seven, and the Act amendatory thereof approved June
twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and other amendments