ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 365

Section 7. Every commissioner, the general counsel to the
commission, the People's Counsel, the secretary of the commis-
sion and every person employed or appointed to office under, in
the service or in connection with the said commission, is hereby
forbidden and prohibited to solicit, suggest, request or recom-
mend, directly or indirectly, to any common carrier, railroad
corporation, street railroad corporation, gas company, electric
light company, telephone company, telegraph company, water
company and refrigerating company, or any other company or
corporation subject to this Act, or to any of the provisions
thereof, or to any officer, attorney, agent or employee thereof,
the appointment of any person to any office, place, position or
appointment. Arid every common carrier, railroad corpora-
tion, street railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical
corporation, telephone company, telegraph company, water com-
pany, and all other companies or corporations subject to this
Act or any of the provisions thereof, and every officer, attor-
ney, agent and employee thereof is hereby forbidden and pro-
hibited to offer to any commissioner, general counsel to the
commission, or the People's Counsel, to the secretary of
the commission, or to any person employed by the commis-
sion, any office, place, appointment or position, or to offer to
give to any commissioner, to the general counsel to the com-
mission, to the People's Counsel, to the secretary of the
commission or to any officer employed or appointed to office,
or to any person employed in the service of the commission or
in connection with the work of said commission, any free pass
or transportation or any reduction in fares, to which the pub-
lic generally are not entitled, or any free carriage for freight
or property, or any present, gift or gratuity of any kind. If
any commissioner, general counsel to the commission, the
People's Counsel, the secretary of the commission, or any
person employed or appointed to office or in the service
of the commission shall violate any provisions of this Act, the
Governor shall remove him from the office held by him. No-
commissioner and no employee or official engaged in the serv-
ice of or in any manner connected with the said commission
shall hold any office or position, or be engaged in any business
or avocation, the duties of which are incompatible with the
duties of his office or employment as commissioner, or in the
service of or in connection with the work of the said commis-
sion.

Approved April 1, 1927.