9. The Library. Four persons are engaged in taking care of the library, which consists of economic and legal volumes and of corporation reports, association records, current financial and statistical service publications, newspapers, financial and trade journals, catalogues, trade lists and addresses. Much of this material is confidential.

10. The Mail and Files Section, where the receipt and distribution of the mail takes place and where all the papers and records of the commission except those of the docket section are finally received and cared for. There are ten clerks in

this section.

II. The Hospital, under a graduate nurse.

12. The Board of Review, composed of a special examiner and two attorneys with two clerks.

13. The Patents and Trading-with-the-Enemy Section, consisting of two clerks who continue the war work the commission is still called upon to do under the Trading-withthe-Enemy Act.

14. Research and Foreign Trade Section, composed of four employees who have charge of the commission's work under the Export Trade Act.

Legal Division. Of the three hundred and twenty-five employees of the commission on July 1, 1921, sixty-nine were in the Legal Division. The three branch offices are maintained by this division which is divided into two subdivisions, or branches. They are:

The Investigational Branch. The duty of this branch of the Legal Division is to conduct all the investigations in connection with applications for the issuance of complaints and to gather evidence in preparation of formal cases for trial. It also furnishes the examiners who sit at the trial of formal cases. Including the clerical help there are eighteen employees under the Chief Examiner who is also an attorney.

The Trial Branch. This branch is composed of the lawyers and examiners who represent the commission in all

formal proceedings before the commission and in all cases in the courts. There are twenty-eight persons under the Chief Counsel, who is the chief legal adviser to the commission.

The Branch Offices. The commission maintains three branch offices, each under an attorney examiner. The New York and Chicago offices each have nine employees and the San Francisco office has three.

Economic Division. The Economic Division has no fixed organization. It has to adapt itself to the investigations being conducted, and as these are finished and new ones are begun, the organization varies repeatedly. The division is under the Chief Economist. On July 1, 1921, there were one hundred and twenty-seven employees in this division.

Personnel and Offices. Up to the present eleven men have served as commissioners. They are George Rublee (temporary because his nomination was not confirmed by the Senate), Edward N. Hurley (resigned), Will H. Parry (died), Joseph E. Davies (resigned), John Franklin Fort (resigned), William J. Harris (resigned), William B. Colver (term expired), John Garland Pollard (term expired), and the present commissioners, Victor Murdock, Huston Thompson, Nelson B. Gaskill and John F. Nugent. The number of employees of the commission has varied as follows:

March 16, 1915 (date of organization)
June 30, 1916

144

224

The headquarters of the Federal Trade Commission are located in one of the Temporary office buildings constructed during the war at 2000 D. St. N. W. Washington, D. C. In order to decrease the expense incident to the investigation of applications for complaints and to the preparation of the va

rious proceedings for hearings, the commission in June, 1918, established branch offices in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco, all of which are still maintained.

APPENDIX I

OUTLINE OF ORGANIZATION

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Outlines of Organization have for their purpose to make known in detail the organization and personnel possessed by the several services of the National Government to which they relate. They have been prepared in accordance with the plan followed by the President's Commission on Economy and Efficiency in the preparation of its outlines of the organization of the United States Government.1 They differ from those outlines, however, in that whereas the commission's report showed only organization units, the presentation herein has been carried far enough to show the sersonnel embraced in each organization unit.

These outlines are of value not merely as an effective means of making known the organization of the several services. If kept revised to date by the services, they constitute exceedingly important tools of administration. They permit the directing personnel to see at a glance the organization and personnel at their disposition. They establish definitely the line of administrative authority and enable each employee to know his place in the system. They furnish the essential basis for making plans for determining costs by organization division and subdivision. They afford the data for a consideration of the problem of classifying and standardizing personnel and compensation. Collectively, they make it possible to determine the number and location of organization divisions of any particular kind, as for example, laboratories, 1 House Doc. 458, 62d Congress, 2nd Session, 1912-2 vols.

libraries, blue-print rooms, or any other kind of plant possessed by the National Government, to what services they are attached and where they are located, or to determine what services are maintaining stations at any city or point in the United States. The Institute hopes that The Institute hopes that upon the completion of the present series, it will be able to prepare a complete classified statement of the technical and other facilities at the disposal of the Government. The present monographs will then furnish the details regarding the organization, equipment, and work of the institutions so listed and classified.