ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 485

ting betting on such races and may fix or regulate the rate
of charge by the license for admission, or for the perform-
ance of any service, or for the sale of any article on the
premises of such licensee, and may regulate the size of the
purse, stake or reward to be offered for the conduct of such
races. All contracts and agreements for the payment of money
and all salaries, fees and compensation paid by any person
or persons, association or corporation licensed as hereinbefore
provided, and all proposed extensions, additions, or im-
provements to the buildings, stables, improvements or
tracks upon property owned or leased by such licensee
shall be subject to the approval of the Commission.
Said Commission shall have power to compel the production
of any and all books, memoranda or documents showing the
receipts and disbursements of any person, corporation or
association, licensed under the provisions of this Act to con-
duct race meetings. The commission may at any time require
the removal of any employee or official employed by any
liceiisee hereunder. The Commission shall also have the power
to require that the books and financial or other statements of
any person, corporation or association licensed under the pro-
visions of this Act shall be kept in any manner which to the
Commission may seem best, and that Commission shall also
be authorized to visit, to investigate and to place expert ac-
countants and such other persons as it may deem necessary,
in the offices, tracks or places of business of any such person,
corporation or association, for the purpose of satisfying itself
that the commission's rules and regulations are strictly com-
plied with, and the salaries and expenses of such expert ac-
countants or other persons shall be paid by the person, cor-
poration or association to whom they are assigned. The said
Commission shall have power to summon witnesses before it
and to administer oaths or affirmations to such witnesses when-
ever, in the judgment of the said Commission, it may be neces-
sary for the effectual discharge of their duties; and any person
failing to appear before said Commission at the time and place
specified in answer to said summons, or refusing to testify,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon indictment
and conviction in a Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be
punishable by a fine of not more than Five Thousand Dollars
or by sentence to jail for not more than six months, or by