366 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

motion or upon a complaint made as provided in this Act,
that the rates, tolls, fares or charges demanded, exacted,
charged or collected by any common carrier, railroad or street
railroad, railroad corporation, street railroad corporation, or
other corporation subject to the provisions of this Act, for the
transportation of persons, freight or property within the State,
or that the regulations or practices of such common carrier or
corporation affecting such rates, tolls or services are unjust,
unreasonable, unjustly discriminating or unduly preferential,
or in anywise in violation of any provision of law, the Com-
mission shall determine the just and reasonable rates, tolls,
fares and charges to be thereafter observed and in force as the
maximum to be charged for the service to be performed, and
shall fix the same by order to be served upon all common car-
riers or other corporations by whom such rates, fares and
charges are thereafter to be observed. And whenever the Com-
mission shall be of the opinion, after a hearing, had upon its
own motion or upon complaint, that the regulations, practices,
equipment, appliances or services of any common carrier or
other such corporation in respect to any services, transporta-
tion of persons, freight or property within this State, are un-
just, unreasonable, unsafe, unreasonably improper or inade-
quate, the Commission shall determine the just, reasonable,
safe, reasonably adequate and proper regulations, practices,
equipment, appliances and service to be in force and to be
observed in respect to such transportation of persons, freight
and property, and so fix and prescribe the same by order to be
served upon every common carrier or other corporation to be
bound thereby; and thereafter it shall be the duty of every
such common carrier or other corporation to observe and obey
each and every requirement of every such order so observed
upon it, and to do everything necessary or proper in order to
secure absolute compliance with and observance of every such
order by all its officers, agents or employees. The Commission
shall have power by order to require any two or more common
carriers whose lines, owned, operated, controlled or leased,
form a continuous line of transportation, or which could be
made to do so by the construction and maintenance of switch
connection, to establish through routes and joint rates, fares
and charges for the transportation of passengers, freight and
property within the State as the Commission may by its orders
designate; and in case such through routes and joint rates be
not established by the common carriers named in any such
order within the time specified therein, the Commission shall
establish just and reasonable rates, fares and charges to be
charged for such through transportation and declare the por-
tion thereof to which each common carrier affected thereby