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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 437, 438 -OCT. 14 ,1941 Shipment of U. 8. property for repairs. Discretionary eten- sion of postage rate. Mail classification. postage rate of 1- cent for each pound or fraction thereof; under such regulations as the Postmaster General may prescribe. Reproducers for sound-reproduction records for the blind or parts thereof which are the property of the United States Government, when shipped for repair purposes by an organization, institution, public library, or association for the blind not conducted for private profit, or by a blind person to an agency not conducted for private profit, or from such an agency to an organization, institution, public library, or association for the blind not conducted for private profit, or to a blind person, may be transmitted through the mails at the rate of 1 cent per pound or fraction thereof; under such regulations as the Postmaster General may prescribe. The Postmaster General may in his discretion extend this rate of 1 cent per pound or fraction thereof to reproducers for sound-repro- duction records for the blind, or parts thereof, and, when mailed to be repaired or being returned after repair, to Braille writers and other appliances for the blind, or parts thereof, which are the prop- erty of State governments or subdivisions thereof, or of public libraries, or of private agencies for the blind not conducted for private profit, or of blind individuals, under such regulations as he may prescribe. All letters written in point print or raised characters or on sound- reproduction records used by the blind, when unsealed, shall be trans- mitted through the mails as third-class matter. Approved, October 14, 1941. [CHAPTER 438] October 14, 1941 [H. R. 5202] [Public Law 271] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to protect the lives and health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and to establish a Minimum Wage Board, and define its powers and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers, and for other purposes", approved September 19, 1918. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the bistr inimcoolumn-e Uited States of A7mrica in Con/ress assembled, That an Act law, amendmenls' entitled "An Act to protect the lives and health and morals of women D.C.Code 1i36-401 and minor workers in the District of Columbia and to establish a to 3622. Minimum Wage Board, and define its powers and duties, and to pro- vide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers, and for other purposes", approved September 19, 1918, is hereby amended as follows: Name of Board. The name of the "Minimum Wage Board" created by said Act is hereby changed to "Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board". SEC. 2. Sections 1 to 23. inclusive, of said Act are hereby desig- nated "TITLE I-MINIMUM WAGES". SEc. 3. Immediately after Section 23 of said Act the following is added: "TITLE II-INDUSTRIAL SAFETY Purp os a "SEc. 1. The purpose of this title is to foster, promote, and develop the safety of wage earners of the District of Columbia in relation to their working conditions. "SEC. 2. When used in this title, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: Employar, . "(a) 'Employer' includes every person, firm, corporation, partner- ship, stock association, agent, manager, representative, or foreman, or other persons having control or custody of any industrial employ- 738 [55 STAT.

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