sioner, the attorneys, and such special experts and examiners as
the commission may from time to time find necessary for the
conduct of its work, all employees of the commission shall be
apart of the classified civil service, and shall enter the service
under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the
commission and by the Civil Service Commission.
All of the expenses of the commission, including all necessary
expenses for transportation incurred by the commissioners or by
their employees under their orders, in making any investigation,
or upon official business in any other places than in the city of
Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of
itemized vouchers thereof approved by the commission.
Until otherwise provided by law, the commission may rent
suitable offices for its use.
The Auditor for the State and Other Departments shall receive
and examine all accounts of expenditures of the commission.

Sec, 3. Upon the organisation of the commission and election
of its Chairman, the Bureau of Corporations and the offices of
Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Corporations shall
cease to exist: and all pending investigations and proceedings of
the Bureau of Corporations shall be continued by the commission.
Al clerks and employees of the said bureau shall be transferred
to and become clerks and employees of the commission at their
present grades and salaries. All records, papers, and property
of the said bureau shall become records, papers and property Of
the commission, and all unexpended funds and appropriations
for the use and maintenance of the said Bureau, including any
allotment already made to it by the Secretary of Commerce from
the contingent appropriation for the Department of Commerce for
the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, or from the departmental
 printing-fund for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and
ffteen, shall become funds and appropriations available to be
expended by the commission in the exercise of the powers, authority.
and duties conferred on it by this Act.
The principal office of the commission shall be in the city of
Washington, but it may meet and exercise all its powers at any
other place. The commission may, by one or more of its members,
or by such examiners as it may designate, prosecute any inquiry
necessary to its duties in any part of the United States.