ABSTRACT. In this paper it is shown that if M is a compact PL-manifold and Hp,(M) is the group of PL-homeomorphisms of M onto itself, then Hp¡JM)is an ¿i-manifold. Here l2 is the Hilbert space of all real-valued square-summable sequences and lL = l(x.) £|,:j.=0 for almost all i\.