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thereto. The Commission may require such report to contain
information in relation to rates or regulations concerning fares
or freights, 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 de-
fective, or believed to be erroneous, the Commission shall notify
it to amend the same within a time prescribed by the Commis-
sion. The originals of the reports, subscribed and sworn to as
prescribed by law, shall be preserved in the office of the Com-
mission. The Commission may also require common carriers to
file periodically reports of earnings and expenses within a spec-
ified time. The Commission may require of all common car-
riers specific answers to questions upon which the Commission
may need information. The annual report required to be filed
by a common carrier shall be so filed on or before the thirtieth
day of September in each year. The Commission may extend
the time for making and filing such report for a period not ex-
ceeding 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 answer to any question, or shall fail to make
the periodic reports when required by the Commission as here-
in provided, within thirty days from the time when it is re-
quired to make and file any such report or answer, such com-
mon 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 report 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, except one-
fourth thereof, which shall be paid to the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore.

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SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That the Commission
shall investigate the cause of all accidents on any railroad or
street railroad which result in loss of life or injury to persons
or property, and which in its judgment shall require investiga-
tion. Every common carrier is hereby required to give notice
to the Commission of every accident happening upon any line
of railroad or street railroad, owned, operated, controlled or
leased by it, within thirty days after the happening of every
such accident, or in such manner as the Commission may
direct. Such notice shall not be admitted as evidence or
used for any. purpose against such common carrier giving
such notice in any suit or action for damages growing out of
any matter mentioned in said notice.