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 PUBLIC LAWS OF THE SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS or mn UNITED STATES Passed at the second session which was be n and h ld t th ctt W h` ' the_D·istrict of Columbia, bn Monday, theuigourth ditty gfD;cerr%e%` 19al86,7'/Iiyridrbioqziz adyourned zmthmtt day on Sunday, the fourt day of March, 1917L Woonnow Wmsoir, President; Tnoms R. Mansnam., Vice President; Wrmnnn Samsnrmr, President of the Senate pro tempore; CHAMP CLARK, Speaker of the House`of Representatives. ‘ CEAP.2.—J' Resol' Athnzmg°' ddir thDpartm,. to make an inq1i•i11;E into tligthest Idf living Him the  ofzohtimbia. gid (lg  I?£?b&;“2P°}§16 thereon to Congress as early as practicable. (Pub. nes., No. ao.] Resolved by the Senate and House o Re esentatives of the United m I. States of America in Congress assem{led,2lchat the Department of Appmpi-iiucglnlliiilrblirii Labor be, and hereby 1s, authorized and directed to make an inquiry §,‘§§’,,_"“° °°“‘ °‘ “"‘ into the cost of living of wage earners in the District of Columbia, and to report thereon to  as early as practicable; and that there be appropriated for this purpose the sum of $6,000. Sec. 2. That the special agents and clerks employed under this Se§.j'{,`f,’1_,@,§;‘f‘“°*'“ appropriation shall be selected from among the persons eligible on any civil-service register. Approved, December 20, 1916. c¤a1>.s.-AAAni" thC " fN'ti to ai ¤>¤¤·¤¤·r¤¤¤°¤¤~ suing ve¤¤e1Goffic¤ci:}at»ia1w°l.>1 ei>t(ihe 6% ‘é“ea..°°“°° ° .-l.h¤f..bL..¤..·.;¤..1.*..mJ I . C, 0. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o Re esentatives of the United ,,, ,, States of America in Congress assembledc 'Yliisrt the Commissioner of Ai;§?i·;l¤;°°°°i¤;ii)Sl:i|.r Na ation is hereby authorized and direpted to cause the sailing g‘T',§',’¤g,,§,g°{“‘“ ‘ ves;5 Golden Gate, rebuilt at San Francisco, California, from the wreck of the sailing vessel Golden Gate wrecked near the harbor of Montevideo, Uruguay, and abandoned by her owners as a total wreck to be registered as a vessel of the nited States whenever it shall be shown to the Commissioner of Navigation that the cost of rebuilding said vessel in the United States amounted to three times the actual cost of said wreck and that the vessel is wholly owned by citizens of the United States. Approved, December 21, 1916. CHAP. 4.-An Act Granting to the Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern [H.l2·igiéeiim` Railway Vompany, and to the Anheuser;Busch Brewing Asepcration, and to the _—v’_fPub“c’N°_”,,_] Manufar·turers’ Railway Company permission to transfer certain rights of easement for railway purposes heretofore grunted by the United States to the Saint Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company and to the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, respectively. When- the United States of America heretofore b Act of Con- A,E,‘;',f$_ L°““· "°·· gregsafapproved February fourteenthjeighteen  andnfty- §¤;g{%l>*;;m_ three, granted to the Saint Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company a right of way, sixty feet wide, over and across land owned 857