Law for the approval of the assignment, transfer or lease of any franchise, or of any right to or under any franchise, or of any corporation's works or system, or for the approval of any contract or agreement with reference to or affecting any of the same, the petition must be made by all of the parties to the proposed transaction, and must show:

1. Unless waived by the Commission, the financial condition of each applicant.

2. In detail, the reasons upon the part of each applicant for making the proposed assignment, transfer, lease, contract or agreement and all the facts warranting the same, and all facts which should be known to the Commission to enable it to pass upon the application.

3. The petition must be accompanied by copies of the articles of incorporation of each applicant, duly certified, of the franchise, of the proposed assignment, transfer, lease, contract or agreement, and of the laws or a reference to the laws which authorize the same. If any of the said instruments are already on file in the office of the Commission the same need not be refiled.

RULE XI.

APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO ACQUIRE Shares of STOCK.

In all applications made to the Commission by corporations for authority to purchase or acquire, take or hold, any part of the capital stock of any other corporation or corporations, the petition must show:

1. In detail, the reasons why the applicant desires to make the proposed acquisition and all the facts warrant

ing the same, including the amount of stock in the same or in any allied corporation already held by the applicant.

2. The market value of the stock proposed to be acquired, with the highest and lowest price thereof during a period of at least one year prior to the making of the petition; the dividends, if any, paid for a period of five years prior to making said petition; the price proposed to be paid or the loan proposed to be made; the name of the present owner; the terms of payment, or, in case of loan, of repayment.

3. In case of an application for authorization to purchase stock of a certain description as opportunity may offer, the reasons therefor in full detail, with a statement of high and low market values and dividends paid each year for at least five years prior to making said petition, and the maximum price which the petitioner should be allowed to pay.

4. There must be submitted a certified copy of the articles of incorporation of each corporation, unless the same is already on file in the office of the Commission, and a statement showing the amount of stock authorized and issued by each corporation, and also, unless waived by the Commission, the financial condition of each of said corporations.

RULE XII.

COMPLAINTS REGARDING THE QUALITY OR PRICE OF Gas OR ELECTRICITY.

The form and contents of complaints regarding the quality or price of gas and electricity, shall be as follows:

I. The complaint shall state the name of the person, firm or company supplying the gas or electricity, as the

case may be, which the complainants may desire to include within the complaint.

It shall state whether the companies named are corporations, and that the persons, firms or corporations named are authorized to sell, manufacture and supply gas or electricity, as the case may be, for heat, light or power within the territory named, and that they are actually engaged in manufacturing, selling and supplying either gas or electricity for the purposes aforesaid.

3. If the complaint is against a gas company, it shall state whether it is directed to the illuminating power or purity, or to the pressure or the price of gas. If against electrical companies, whether directed to the initial efficiency of the electric incandescant lamp supply, or the regulation of the voltage of the supply system used for incandescent lighting, or the price. In every case the complaint shall specify any respects wherein the service is otherwise inadequate or the methods unreasonable, and if it is claimed that the price is excessive and unreasonable, then the price actually charged by such person, firm or corporation shall be set forth, and the respects wherein or the reasons why it is unreasonable specified.

4. Unless the complaint be made by the Mayor or Chief Executive official or officials of a municipality or county, the complaint shall state that each of the complainants, of which there shall be not less than one hundred, is a customer or purchaser of either gas or electricity, as the case may be, from each of the said companies against which the complaint is made. The name and residence, by street and number, of each of such customers or purchasers must be signed.

5. If the complaint is that the price of either gas or electricity is excessive, it shall state that the price is excessive, unfair and unreasonable, and is disproportionate to the proper cost of manufacturing and delivering either gas or electricity as the case may be, in the locality mentioned.

6. The complaint may also contain any other specification of any illegal act on the part of said persons, firms or corporations, or any violation of the charter or franchises thereof, or any of them, in respect to the manufacture, sale or supply of gas or electricity, or as to the methods of conducting business, and in such event shall demand the relief which the complainants desire.

7. The same complaint shall not include both gas and electricity.

8. Upon such complaint being filed, an order for a hearing shall be made, returnable at such time as the Commission may direct. Such order may also include such other matters as the Commission may desire to be included in the investigation or hearing. A certified copy of the order, with a copy of the complaint, shall be served on each person, firm or corporation affected thereby, and the hearing shall proceed at the time and place designated, or at such other time or times, place or places to which the Commission or the Commissioner presiding may adjourn the same.

RULE XIII.

APPLICATION BY MUNICIPALITIES FOR AUTHORITY TO OPERATE GAS OR ELECTRICAL WORKS.

All applications of municipalities, except the Mayor

and City Council of Baltimore, under Section 33 of the Public Service Commission Law, for authority to build, maintain and operate, for other than municipal purposes, any works or systems for the manufacture and supplying of gas or electricity for lighting purposes, shall give:

1. The name and location of the principal office of all gas and electric corporations doing business within such municipality.

2. The names of the executive officers of each such gas or electric corporation.

3. A general statement of the amount and character of services rendered within such municipality by each gas or electric corporation therein.

A statement showing by what authority the municipality will have the right to build the proposed work or system upon receiving a certificate of authority from the Commission.

5. A description of the works or system proposed to be constructed.

6. The manner in which such municipality proposes to pay for or finance the construction of the proposed works or system.

RULE XIV.

OTHER APPLICATIONS.

All applications relating to matters within the jurisdiction of the Commission, and which are not governed by any of the aforegoing Rules, shall in every case be made by petition, setting forth clearly the matter complained of, and giving the name of the person, firm or