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(b) At the start in each line of supervision, the organization may borrow funds 
to the extent of the anticipated 12 months’ income; and later may borrow to the 
extent of the previous 12 months’ income for each line of supervision. 
Sec. 10, REPORTS.—A series of reports shall be issued by each Federal trade 
organization and by the Federal Trade Commission, to include sheets for tempo- 
rary use, promptly issued, and be sold to the public at cost of paper, press work, 
and binding, plus 25 per cent. 
Sec. 11. INVESTIGATIONS —(a) Each Federal trade organization shall from 
time to time investigate such parts of the industrial and trade activities as it is 
regulating, and the said organizations shall keep informed as to the manner and 
methods whereby the same is being conducted, and is authorized to obtain 
information that will enable it to perform its duties. 
(b) A representative of the organization, properly authorized, shall, by each 
person, firm, or corporation that is being regulated, be given access to the books 
and other sources of information concerning the subject matter being investi- 
gated. The representative may make a copv of such parts as are deemed rele- 
vant. All information received shall be held in strict confidence until released 
by order of the organization, and it shall retain in confidence the trade secrets 
and methods of operation except as publicity is provided by law. 
Sec. 12. WirNEssEs.—(a) Each Federal trade organization may call witnesses, 
either to testify or to produce documentary evidence relating to any matter 
under investigation. The request to attend as a witness may be signed by a 
member of the executive staff or by its examiner, who also may administer oaths 
and affirmations, examine witnesses and receive evidence. 
(b) Such attendance of witnesses may be required from any place in the 
Nation at any designated place of hearing, and testimony may be taken by 
deposition, by order of a member of the executive staff or by an examiner, before 
anyone having power to administer oaths. Any person may be compelled to 
appear and depose and produce documentary evidence in the same manner as in 
other proceedings. 
(c) Witnesses summoned before an organization or before an examiner or for 
the taking of deposition, shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are paid 
to witnesses in the State circuit court. 
(d) No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing 
documentary evidence on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or 
evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to criminate 
him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture: Provided, That no natural person 
shall be prosecuted or subjected to penalty or forfeiture for or on account of 
any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he may testify, or produce 
evidence, documentary or otherwise, before the organization or examiner or in 
making deposition, except for perjury while testifying. (Substance of section 9, 
Federal Trade Commission act.) 
{¢) For compelling witnesses to appear and testify the organization and the 
examiner are herewith clothed with the same power with which the United 
States District Courts are invested. 
Sec. 13. To Conxpuct ResearcHEs.—Each Federal trade organization shall 
investigate and report on such subjects concerning its industry as may be assigned 
to it by Congress or by either House, or by the President, and shall act promptly. 
SEC. 14. INTERVENTION.—Any person, firm, or other organization may make 
application to be heard in connection with a proceeding before a Federal trade 
organization, or ask to be accorded the right to appear to question a witness, 
and upon good cause being shown, to be reduced to writing and filed, may bv the 
presiding officer be allowed to intervene. 
SEC. 15. The eight assistant commissioners to the Federal Trade Commissioner 
shall receive a salary of $—<—— per annum, payable monthly, by the United 
States. The commissioner and the assistant commissioners shall be reimbursed 
for actual traveling expenses, including hotel bill while away from home, incurred 
in the discharge of official duties. 
SEC. 16. AssisTanNTs.—(a) Each year the commission shall appoint a chair- 
man and a secretary, each to serve until his successor qualifies. The salary of 
the secretary shall be $——— a year, payable monthly, by the United States. 
(b) The commission is authorized to employ such ofher assistants as its duties 
require and for which funds have been appropriated by Congress. The com- 
mission shall enact a rule as to the extent which an assistant or member of a 
board and employees of a board may be pecuniarily interested in an industrv 
which he is helping to regulate. 
(c) The merit system shall be applied within the commission and each board 
except (1) as to the secretary of the commission and a clerk to each assictant