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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