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Office and of the Courts in relation to matters arising therefrom, and whether any, and if so what, changes in those Acts or that practice are desirable. (2) In particular—{a) The initiation, conduct, and determination of legal proceedings arising under or out of the said Acts : (6) The provisions of the said Acts for the prevention of the abuse of monopoly rights : (c) What amendments of those Acts or of procedure thereunder would in your opinion facilitate the expeditious settlement and the reduction of the cost of legal proceedings in cases arising under the said Acts and would encourage the use of inventions and the progress of industry and trade : And, with the like advice and consent, I do further appoint you, the said Herbert Edgar Evans, to be Chairman of the said Commission : And it is hereby declared that the powers hereby conferred shall be exercisable notwithstanding the absence at any time of one of the members hereby appointed so long as the Chairman, or a member deputed by the Chairman to act in his stead, and at least three other members be present and concur in the exercise of such powers : And you are hereby authorized to conduct any inquiry under these presents at such times and places as you deem expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and place to place as you think fit, and to call before you and to examine on oath or otherwise such persons as you think capable of affording you information as to the matters aforesaid, and to call for and examine all such books, papers, writings, and documents as you deem likely to afford you the fullest information on any such matters : And you are hereby given liberty to report your proceedings and findings under this Commission from time to time if you shall judge it expedient so to do : And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to me under your hands and seals not later than the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid, together with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect thereof: And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or otherwise disclose, save to me in pursuance of these presents or by my direction, the contents or purport of any report so made or to be made by you :

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