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eight lioiirs in any one calendar day, and it shall be unlawful for 

 any officer of the United States Government or of the District of 

 Columbia or any such contractor or subcontractor whose duty it shall 

 be to employ, direct, or control the services of such laborers or me- 

 chanics to require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work 

 more than eight hours in any calendar day except in case of extraor- 

 dinary emergency. 



Act August 1, 1892, c. 352, s. 1. 27 Stat. 340. 



Violation of act by officer or contractor; punishment. 



Sec. 2. That any officer or agent of the Government of the United 

 States or of the District of Columbia, or any contractor or subcon- 

 tractor whose duty it shall be to employ, direct, or control any 

 laborer or mechanic employed upon any of the public works of the 

 United States or of the District of Columbia who shall intentionally 

 violate any provision of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, and for each and every such offense shall upon conviction 

 be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars or by im- 

 prisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and 

 imprisonment, in the discretion of the court having jurisdiction 

 thereof. 



Act August 1, 1892. c. 352, s. 2, 27 Stat. 340. 



Act Jmie 19. 1912. c. 174, set forth below, provides that every contract 

 for or ou behalf of the T'nited States which requires or involves the 

 employment of laborers or mechanics, shnll contain m provision that no 

 such laborer or mechanic in the employ of the contractor or subcon- 

 tractor shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in 

 any one calendar day, and that every such contract shall stipulate a 

 penalty of $5 for each violation of such stipulation for each laborer or 

 mechanic for every day in which he shall be required or permitted to 

 work more than eight hours. 



ACT JUNE 19, 1912, c. 174. An act limiting the hours of daily service of laborers 

 and mechanics employed upon work done for the T'nitetl States, or for any 

 Territory, or the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (37 Stat. 

 137.) 



Contracts for work done for United States to contain provision that no laborer 

 or mechanic be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in one 

 day; stipulation for penalty for violation; inspector to report violations; 

 appeal by contractor for penalty withheld. 



That every contract hereafter made to which the United States, 

 any Territory, or the District of Columbia is a party, and every 

 such contract made for or on behalf of the United States, or any 

 Territor}^ or said District, which may require or involve the employ- 

 ment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no 

 laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by 

 the contract, in the employ of the contractor or any subcontractor 

 contracting for any part of said work contemplated, shall be required 

 or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day 

 upon such work; and every such contract .shall stipulate a penalty 

 for each violation of such provision in such contract of five dollars 

 for each laborer or mechanic for every calendar day in which he shall 

 be required or permitted to labor more than eight hours upon said 

 work; and any officer or person designated as inspector of the work 

 to be performed under any such contract, or to aid in enforcing the 

 fulfillment thereof, shall, ^lpon observation or investigation, forth- 



