REPORT 0? THE COMMISSIONER OP INSURANtCM.


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ally employed in the service, but the insurance commissioner
shall receive no extra compensation for service on the board.
The necessary expenses of the board in carrying out the pr6-
visions of this aet shall be borne by the commonwealth.
(Chapter 493, Acts of 1911,)
MISSOURI
RATES TO BE REASONABLE
Sec. 2. All rates upon which premiums are based for insur-
ance within the terms of this act shall be reasonable and just
and all unreasonable or unjust or discriminatory rates are here-
by prohibited and declared unlawful.
POWER OF SUPERINTENDENT
Sec. 3. All insurance companies licensed to do business in
this state regulated by this act, shall upon request of the sup-
erintendent of the insurance department, hereafter called the
superintendent, furnish all information asked for by him in
carrying out the intent and purposes of this act. The super-
intendent shall have full power and authority to examine all
officers, agents, and employers of such insurance companies and
all other persons under oath, or otherwise, in order to procure
all information bearing on the schedules and rates hereinafter
referred to. He shall have power to administer oaths, to issue
subpoenas for persons, books and papers. In case any person
shall wilfully fail or refuse to obey any such subpoena, it shall
be the duty of any circuit court, or any judge, thereof, upon
the application of said superintendent to issue an attachment
for such witness and compel such witness to attend before the
superintendent and testify and produce books and papers relat-
ing to such matters as shall be lawfully required by the super-
intendent, and said court shall have power to punish for con.
tempt as in other cases of refusal to obey the process or order
of the court. Such court or judge shall have power to issue and
enforce obedianee to such subpoenas on application of the sup-
erintendent as may be necessary to compel the attendance and