HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 639

Works. The premiums thereon shall be paid in the same
manner as other expenses of the Commission. Such bonds
shall be filed in the office of the Board of Public Works.
The executive secretary of the Commission shall keep a
record of its proceedings. A duly certified copy of any
such record shall be prima facie evidence of any fact which
might be proved by the production of the original.

The principal office of the Commission shall be in the City
of Baltimore.

Section 3. The Commission, when requested by a substan-
tial proportion of the producers and/or consumers and/or
distributors in any marketing area, shall have power:

(a) To supervise and regulate the entire milk industry
in any marketing area established under sub-section (e) of
this Section. The general power hereby conferred upon
the Commission extends to the supervision and regulation
of the production, processing, distribution and sale of the
entire output of the lacteal secretion of dairy animals in
this State to the extent that the same is available in the
form of milk as defined by this Act. The Commission may
exempt from the provisions of this Act any milk sold for
consumption in territory outside and not adjacent to any
market established in accordance with sub-section (e) of
this section, provided that such exemption does not con-
stitute a menace to the public health nor otherwise inter-
fere with the enforcement of the provisions and the accom-
plishment of the purposes of this Act.

(b) To investigate all matters pertaining to the pro-
duction, transportation, processing, storage, distribution
and sale of milk in this State. For the purpose of such
investigation or any hearing which the Commission is
authorized or required to conduct, the Commission or any
member thereof, and its executive secretary shall have
power to administer oaths, take depositions, issue sub-
poenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the pro-
duction of books, accounts, papers, records, documents
and testimony. In case of failure of any person to comply
with the order of the Commission or a subpoena issued
by the Commission or any of its members, or its executive
secretary, or on the refusal of a witness to testify to any
matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated,
the judge of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, if the
person resides in Baltimore City, or the judge of the Cir-
cuit Court for the County in which the person resides, on
application of any member of the Commission, or its execu-
tive secretary, shall compel obedience by attachment pro-