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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF
commissioner; and (2) the secretary of each board and a clerk to each board
member.

(d) The Federal Trade Commission and each Federal trade board shall each
name one of their number to cooperate with the United States Civil Service
Commission in formulating the examinations for the eligible list. A graded
system of salaries and promotions shall be adopted.

Sc. 17. EMpLoYEEs.— The employees of the existing Federal Trade Commis-
sion shall be transferred to and become the employees of the enlarged commission,
at their present grades and salaries. All records, papers, and property of the
existing commission shall become the records, paper, and property of the enlarged
commission; and all of the unexpended funds and appropriations for the use and
maintenance of the existing commission shall become the funds and the appro-
priations available to be by the enlarged commission in the exercise of its powers
conferred by law.

Sec. 18. FurTHER DETAILS.—(a) The principal office of the Federal Trade
Commission shall be at the national capital, but it may meet at any other place
within the Nation and exercise all of its powers, and may act through a representa-
tive in any part of the Nation.

(b) The commission shall possess a seal with the words, Federal Trade Com-
mission, and on it an emblem. This seal shall be judicially noticed.

(¢) Each board shall possess a seal, which shall be judicially noticed."

(d) All of the expenses of the commission and of each board, said expenses to
include all necessary expenses of transportation, shall be evidenced by itemized
vouchers approved by the commission or board.

Sec. 19. AssistanTs.—(a) Each year the commission shall appoint a secretary
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 other assistants as its duties
require and for which funds have been appropriated by Congress. The commis-
sion shall enact a rule as to the extent which an assistant, including the assistant
a may be pecuniarily interested in industry which he is helping to
regulate.

(¢) The merit system shall be applied within the commission and the Federal
trade organizations except as to the secretary, and a clerk for each assistant com-
missioner, and to such of the officers of the Federal trade organizations as may be
specified by the commissioner of the trade organization.

_(d) The Federal Trade Commission shall name one of the assistant commis-
sioners to cooperate with the United States Civil Service Commission in formu-
lating the examinations in the legible list, including the employees, for both the
Federal Trade Commission and the Federal trade organizations. A graded sys-
tem of salaries and promotions shall be adopted.

Sec. 20. AppITIONAL PROCEDURE.—(a) Service of papers.—The service of com=
plaints by the Federal Trade Commission and by the Federal trade organizations,
and other notices by them, may be by whoever they may authorize.

(b) Service may be either (1) by delivering a copy thereof to the person served,
or to a member of a partnership to be served, or to the president, secretary, or
other executive officer or director of the corporation to be served; or ©) by
leaving a copy thereof at the principal office or place of business. The verified
return by the person so serving said complaint, order, or other process setting
forth the manner of said service shall be proof of the same, and the return
post-office receipt for said complaint, order, or other process registered and
mailed as aforesaid shall be proof of the service of the same.

Fe Agus —tng regulations to be issued by the commission, and by each
ye rade organization, shall include those for the gathering and compiling of
fniormation covering such parts of the field as may be deemed helpful, and shall
Ie ol © 2 System of uniform accounting, also uniform revorts. and be verified

(d) Cooperation by Government depa issi

ment departments.—Upon request by the commission

3 by a Federal trade organization to any department or bureau of the National
ent, i shall supply a copy or other form of documentary evidence in its
Te the Foveriast by the Secretary of Commerce to any department or
commission or Federal trade a a ueinls and employees to pie
the President. av direct, subject to appeal to

Sec. 21. LAW ENFORCEMENT—DAMA
organizati - GEs.—(a) Any person, firm, or other
organ ion vo sell suffer pecuniary loss because of the violation of this act

ued by the commission or bv a Federal trade organization