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LAWS OF ARIZONA.

and all records and files of the Commission shall be kept therein and shall be open to inspection by the public.

Section Six. The Commission shall have an official seal which shall be judicially noticed. Any member of the Commission may administer oaths and affirmations. They shall hold at least one general session every two months, at their office at the Capital, for the purpose of hearing evidence and argument on such matters as may be brought before them. Such general session shall begin at ten o’clock A. M. on the third Monday of each month; the Commission shall conduct its sessions as will best conduce to the proper dispatch of business and the purposes of this act.

Section Seven. Whenever the convenience of the public or the parties to the proceeding may be promoted, or delay or expense prevented thereby, the Commission may hold special sessions at the Capital or at any place in the Territory.

Section Eight. The rules of practice and procedure adopted by the Interstate Commerce Commission for causes and proceedings under the Act to Regulate Commerce, Act of Congress, approved February eleventh, 1887, amended March second, 1889, February tenth, 1891, February eighth, 1895, and June twenty-ninth, 1906, shall in addition to such rules of practice and proceedure as are included in this Act, be in so far as they are applicable, the practice and procedure followed by the commission in the conduct of the matters brought before it.

Section Nine. The Commissioners shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses and to compel the production of books and papers which relate to the matters being investigated before them, but no person shall be compelled to give testimony or produce evidence which would tend to incriminate him.