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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF
(b) All records and papers in connection with the existing regulatory power of
the Federal Department of Agriculture shall be transferred to and become the
records and papers of the Federal agricultural commission.

Sec. 17. Fortaer Derains.—(a) The principal office of the Federal agricul-
tural 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
representative in any part of the. Nation.

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

(¢) Each board shall possess a seal, which shall be judically noted.

(d) All of the expenses of the commission and of each organization in the home
rule section of the Federal agricultural system, said expenses to include all
necessary transportation, shall be evidenced by itemized vouchers approved by
the appropriate organization.

Sec. 18. 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.

(b) The commission is authorized to employ such other assistants as its duties
require and for which funds have been appropriated. The commission shall
enact a rule as to the extent which an assistant, including the assistant com-
missioners, may be pecuniarily interested in an industry which he is helping
to regulate.

{¢) The merit system shall be applied within the commission and the Federal
agricultural organizations except as to the secretary, and a clerk for each assistant
commissioner, and to such of the officers of the Federal agricultural organi-
zations as may be specified by the commissioner of agriculture.

(d) The Federal agricultural commission shall name one of the assistant
commissioners to cooperate with the United States Civil Service Commissioners
in formulating the examinations in the eligible list, including the employees,
for both the agricultural commission and the Federal agricultural organizations.
A graded system of salaries and promotions shall be adopted.

Ske. 22. ADDITIONAL PROCEDURE. —(a) Service of papers—The service of
complaints by the Federal agricultural commission and by the Federal agri-
cultural 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, secre-
tary, or other executive officer or director of the corporation to be served; or
(2) by leaving a copy thereof at the principal office or place of business of such
person, partnership, or corporation; or (3) by registering and mailing a copy
thereof addressed to each person, partnership, or corporation at its 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.

{(¢) Regulations.—The regulations to be issued by the commission, and by
each Federal agricultural organization, shall include those for the gathering and
compiling of information covering such parts of the field as may be deemed help-
ful, and shall include a system of uniform accounting, also uniform revorts. to
be verified under oath.

id) Cooperation by Government departments.— Upon request by the commission
or by a Federal agricultural organization to any department or bureau of the
National Government, it shall supply a copy or other form of documentary
evidence in its possession. Upon request by the Secretary of Agriculture to any
department or bureau of the Government it shall detail such officials and em-
ployees to the commission or Federal agricultural organization as he mav direct.
subject to appeal to the President.

Sec. 23. Law EnrorcEMENT—DAMAGES.—(a) Any person, firm, or other
organization who shall suffer pecuniary loss because of the violation of this act
x of a regulation issued by the commission or by a Federal agricultural organiza-

Lon ow, sue the wrongdoer in any United States court of competent jurisdiction

and shall recover twice the amount of such pecuniary loss. together with costs,
including a reasonable attorney’s fee.

in ®) A certified copy of the findings by the commission or by a Federal agricul

of the rps ion i be admitted as evidence; as also shall be a certified copy

of its examiners or other he agr! cultura parliament or any of its branches or any