PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1433

certify to official acts, take depositions within or without the
State of Maryland as now provided by law, compel the pro-
duction of pertinent books, payrolls, accounts, papers, records,
documents and testimony.

If a person in attendance before the Commission or a Com-
missioner refuse, without reasonable cause, to be examined or
to answer a legal and pertinent question, or to produce a book
or paper when ordered to do so by the Commission, the Com-
mission may apply to any Judge of the Supreme Bench of Bal-
timore City, or of the Circuit Court of any County, upon proof
by affidavit of the fact, for a rule or order returnable in not
less than two or more than five days, directing such person
to show cause before the Judge who made the order, or any
other Judge aforesaid, why he should not be committed to jail;
upon the return of such order, the Judge before whom the mat-
ter and such person shall come on for a hearing shall examine
under oath such person and such person shall be given an op-
portunity to be heard: and if the Judge shall determine that
such person has refused, without reasonable cause or legal ex-
cuse, to be examined or to answer a legal or pertinent question,
or to produce a book or paper which he was ordered to bring
or produce, he may forthwith commit the offender to jail,
there to remain until he submits to do the act which he was
so required to do, or is discharged according to law.

No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing
any books or papers or documents in any investigation or in-
quiry by or upon any hearing before the Commission or any
Commissioner, when ordered to do so by the Commission or
its Secretary, upon the ground that the testimony or evidence,
books, papers, or documents required of him may tend to in-
criminate him or subject him to penalty or forfeiture; but no
person shall be prosecuted, punished or subjected to any pen-
alty or forfeiture for or on account of any act, transaction,
matter or thing concerning which he shall, under oath, have,
by order of the Commission or a Commissioner or its inspector
or examiner, testified to or produced documentary evidence
of; provided, however, that no person so testifying shall be ex-
empt from prosecution or punishment for any perjury com-
mitted by him in his testimony.

SEC. 8. Each officer who serves such subpoena shall receive
the same fee as the Sheriff would receive in the county or city
where said witness is subpoenaed and each witness who ap-