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amounts are paid, and upon completion of the hearing and
decision, may, by further order, require the said proponent
or proponents to refund with interest, to the persons in whose
behalf such amounts were paid, such portion of such increased
rates or charges as by its decision shall be found not justified.
At any healing involving any new schedule as hereinbefore in
this section provided after the passage of this Act, the burden
of proof to show that each proposed new schedule or any part
thereof is just and reasonable shall be upon the said proponent
or proponents by whom or on whose behalf such new schedule
has been filed, and the Commission shall give to the hearing
and decision of such questions preference over all other ques-
tions pending before it and decide the same as speedily as
possible.

364-B. If upon the hearing of any petition filed with the
Public Service Commission at any time by a public service
corporation, company or individual, it shall be made to appear
to the satisfaction of the Commission that the public interest
requires a change in a rate, fare, charge, classification, regula-
tion or practice, or that such change is necessary for the pur-
pose of providing adequate and efficient service, or for the
preservation of property, the Commission, upon such terms,
conditions or safeguards as it deems proper, may authorize an
immediate reasonable, temporary increase in a rate, fare or
charge, or a change in a classification, regulation or practice.

Approved April 5, 1927.

CHAPTER 336.

AN ACT to revive the charter of The Sandier Bros. Baking
Company and to enable it to continue business as a corpora-
tion under the laws of the State of Maryland upon payment
by it of all taxes due by it to the State of Maryland, and
of all penalties heretofore imposed upon it for its default
in that respect.

WHEREAS, The Sandier Bros. Baking Company, a corpora-
tion organized and doing business under the laws of the State
of Maryland, did through inadvertence, neglect to make pay-
ment of the franchise tax due by it to the State of Maryland,
and certain penalties imposed upon it for said neglect; and