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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