to demand, collect or receive a greater compensation for any service than the charge fixed on the lowest schedules of rates for the same service on the first day of April, 1907.

2. Every public utility in this State shall, within thirty days after the passage and publication of this act, file in the office of the commission, copies of all schedules of rates and charges including joint rates, in force on the first day of April, 1907, and all rates in force at any time subsequent to said date.

3. Any public utility desiring to advance or discontinue any such rate or rates may make application to the commission in writing stating the advance in or discontinuation of the rate or rates desired, giving the reasons for such advance or discontinuation.

4. Upon receiving such application the commission shall fix a time and place for hearing and give such notice to interested parties as it shall deem proper and reasonable. If, after such hearing and investigation, the commission shall find that the change or discontinuation applied for is reasonable, fair and just, it shall grant the application either in whole or in part.

5. Any public utility being dissatisfied with any order of the commission made under the provisions of this section may commence an action against it in the circuit court in the manner provided in sections 1797m-64 to 1797m-73, inclusive, of this act, which action shall be tried and determined in the same manner as is provided in said sections.

§ 1797m-106. The employment of agents, experts, engineers, accountants, examiners or assistants by the commission as provided in this act, and the payment of their compensation and travelling and other expenses, shall be under the provisions of section 1, chapter 362, of the laws of 1905, and acts amendatory thereof.

§ 1797m-107. A sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this act is appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, not exceeding fifty-two thousand dollars.

§ 1797m-108. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are repealed in so far as they are inconsistent herewith.

SECTION 2. Section 925-97a, statutes of 1898, chapter 389, laws of 1905, and chapter 459, laws of 1905, are repealed.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved July 9, 1907.

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