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contracts, agreements or documents at the trial or hearing of
any person or company charged with violating any provisions
of this sub-title on the ground that such testimony or evidence
may tend to incriminate himself, but no person shall be prose-
cuted for any act concerning which he shall be compelled so
to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, ex-
cept for perjury committed in so testifying.

195. Liquidation of Insolvent or Illegally Conducted
Companies. Whenever the Commissioner shall have reason to
believe that any company is insolvent, or fraudulently con-
ducted, or that its assets are not sufficient for carrying on the
business of the same, or during any non-compliance with the
provisions of this sub-title, it shall be his duty in addi-
tion to revoking the license of such company, to make com-
plaint thereof to the judge of either of the circuit courts of
Baltimore City, or any judge of the circuit court for the county
where the company or agent may be located, as the case may
be; which judge shall, upon the requisition of the Commis-
sioner, appoint a commission, consisting of the Commissioner
and two disinterested and competent persons, whose duty it
shall be to examine every detail of the business and condition
of said company and report, in writing, the result of such
examination to the judge appointing them, who shall, if in his
judgment the charges of insolvency, fraud, neglect, or abuse,
as charged by the Commissioner, are sustained by the said
report, at once issue an injunction suspending the business of
said company. The Commissioner shall institute, or cause to
be instituted, the necessary proceedings under the laws of this
State, to close the affairs of any company of this State which
shall appear to him, upon examination, to be insolvent or to
be fraudulently conducted.

196. Proceedings to Vacate Charter. Whenever the
Attorney General or the State's Attorney for the City of Bal-
timore or for any county of the State shall be required by the
Commissioner to institute proceedings against any company
incorporated under the laws of this State, or ascertain whether
such corporation has been guilty of such misuse, abuse or non-
user of its corporate powers and franchises, as by law would
authorize and make proper the forfeiture of its charter, cor-
porate powers and franchises, the said Attorney General or
State's Attorney, as the case may be, shall file with the Su-
perior Court of Baltimore City, or the Circuit Court of the