sentatives of legal and accounting firms, corporations and labor unions; they are interested largely in gathering information to be used as specimens, as precedent material, or for other specialized purposes. The inquiries received through the mails and over the telephone follow the same pattern.

Copies of any public information filed with the Commission may be examined at the principal office in Washington, D.C. Such information includes registration statements, applications and declarations filed under the various statutes administered by the Commission, together with the records of agency action. In Washington, as in the regional offices, space considerations have necessitated the transfer of some of this material to warehouse-type space in nearby federal records centers. Files from these centers are usually available within 24 hours.

The New York Regional Office has copies of recent filings made by companies having securities listed on exchanges other than the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange, and copies of current filings of many companies which have effective registration statements under the Securities Act of 1933. The Chicago Regional Office has copies of recent reports of companies which have securities listed on the New York and American stock exchanges. Reports of listed companies on the New York, American and Midwest stock exchanges may be seen at the exchange offices.

All regional offices have copies of prospectuses used in recent public offerings of securities registered under the Securities Act, of active broker-dealer and investment adviser registration applications originating in their respective regions and of regulation A letters of notifi cation filed in their respective regions.

The public reference room in Washington had 4,800 visitors during the fiscal year. Requests were filled for an additional 30,513 persons who were sent 630,869 copies of Commission publications. During the fiscal year 128,149 photocopy pages were sold pursuant to 2,021 orders. Additional thousands of persons made use of the facilities provided by the New York and Chicago public reference rooms.

PUBLICATIONS

Publications currently being issued include:

Monthly:

Statistical Bulletin.

Official Summary of Security Transactions and Holdings of
Officers, Directors, and Principal Stockholders.

Quarterly:

Financial Reports, U.S. Manufacturing Corporations (jointly with the Federal Trade Commission).

Plant and Equipment Expenditures of U.S. Corporations (jointly with the Department of Commerce).

New Securities Offered for Cash.

Volume and Composition of Individual's Saving.
Working Capital of U.S. Corporations.

Annually:

Annual Report of the Commission.

Securities Traded on Exchanges under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Companies Registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Corporate Pension Funds.

Other publications:

Decisions and Reports of the Commission.

The Work of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

ORGANIZATION

The Commission's staff consists of attorneys, security analysts and examiners, accountants, engineers and administrative and clerical employees. An organization chart of the Commission is set forth on the following page.

Under the Commission's program of continuing review of its functions and organization, several changes were made in the Division of Corporate Regulation. In March 1959, the position of Chief Financial Analyst was established, and a Branch of Reorganization was created in the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Division.