Date:    12/22/1999  4:35 PM

Subject: File no. S7-24-99

Please keep up your recent efforts to level the palying field that 
now permits market makers and other professional traders to 
artificially manipulate the price of a stock solely for their own 
short-term gain.
     
Specifically:
     
1) the shorting rules that currently cover the NASDAQ, NYSE, and the 
AMEX, particularly on naked or uncovered shorting, should be extended 
to the OTCBB stocks;
     
2) the Uptick Rule should be retained to protect us against "bear 
raids" and "pile on" attacks.
     
Thank you
Francis M. Hugo
3414 North Emerson Street
Arlington, Virginia 22207