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Art. 6468. [6667] [4571] REFUSAL TO ANSWER.  If any officer 
or employé of a railroad shall fail or refuse to fill out and return 
any blanks as above required, or fail or refuse to answer any 
questions therein propounded, or shall give a false answer to any 
such questions where the fact inquired of is within his knowledge, 
or shall evade the answer to any such questions, a penalty of five 
hundred dollars shall be recovered from the company by the State 
when it appears that such persons acted in obedience to its 
direction, permission or request in his failure, evasion or 
refusal.  Said Commission shall have the power to prescribe a system 
of book-keeping to be observed by each railroad subject hereto, 
under the penalties prescribed in this article.

Acts 1891, p. 55; G.L. vol. 10, p. 57.                                        

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