MISCELLANEOUS BILLS. 385

persons and corporations supplying facilities for the transmis-
sion of intelligence by electricity, and shall have power to or-
der such improvements as will best promote the public interest
and protect those using telephones and those emplpyed in the
business thereof or in the maintenance and operation of the
works, wires, poles, lines and conduits maintained therein.
(3) Shall have power, in its discretion, to prescribe and require
items, methods of keeping accounts, records and books to lie
furnished by the persons and corporations engaged in the fur-
nishing of facilities for the transmission of intelligence by elec-
tricity. (4) Shall examine all persons and corporations under
its supervision as to the methods employed by them in the
transaction of their business, see that their property is main-
tained and operated for the reasonably adequate accommo-
dation of the public and in compliance with the provisions
of law and of their franchise and charters. (5) Shall require
every person or corporation under its supervision to submit to
it an actual report, verified by the oath of the president, treas-
urer or general manager, showing .in detail (a) the amount of
its authorized capital stock and the amount thereof issued and
outstanding; (b) the amount of its authorized bonded indebt-
edness and the amount of its bonds and other forms of evi-
dence of indebtedness issued and outstanding; (c) its receipts
and expenditures during the preceding year; (d) the amount
paid as dividends upon its stock and as interest upon its
bonds; (e) the name of and the amount paid as salary to each
officer, and the amount paid as wages to its employees; (f) the
situation of its plant or plants and system, with a full descrip-
tion of its property and franchises, stating in detail how each
franchise stated to be owned was acquired, and (g) such other
facts pertaining to the operation and maintenance of the plant
and system, and the affairs of such person or corporation, as
may be required by the Commission. Such reports shall be in
the form, cover the period and be submitted at the time pre-
scribed by the Commission. The Commission may, from time
to time, make changes and additions in such forms, giving to
the persons and corporations three months' notice before the
time fixed by the Commission as the expiration of the fiscal
year of any changes or addition which would require any al-
teration in the method or form of keeping their accounts for
ensuing year. When any such report is defective, or believed
to be erroneous, the Commission shall notify the person or cor-
poration making such report to amend the same within thirty
days. Any such person or corporation which shall neglect to
make any such report within the time specified by the Com-
mission, or which shall fail to correct any such report within
fifteen days after notice, shall be liable to a penalty of one