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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 453, 454, 457-OCT. 21, 23 , 1941 [55 STAT. by this section shall extend to persons committed to the National Training School for Boys, by the juvenile court of the District of Columbia, as well as to those committed by any court of the United States." Approved, October 21, 1941. [CHAPTER 454] AN ACT October 23, 1941 [H. R . 5667] To authorize the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to issue notes, bonds, [Public Law 278] and debentures in the sum of $1,500,000,000 in excess of existing authority. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the naneororXtrtionF- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the amount of Increase of lending notes, bonds, debentures, and other such obligations which the Recon- auntep.it250. struction Finance Corporation is authorized to issue and have out- standing at any one time under existing law is hereby increased by $1,500,000,000. Approved, October 23, 1941. [CHAPTER 457] AN ACT October 23, 1941 [H. R. 2985] To prescribe the time basis for computing pay for overtime work performed by [Public Law 279] laborers in the Railway Mail Service. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Railway Mal Serv- United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7, as ice. 43 Stat 1061. amended, of the Act entitled "An Act reclassifying the salaries of 39U. .C.,ch. . postmasters and employees of the Postal Service, readjusting their salaries and compensation on an equitable basis, increasing postal rates to provide for such readjustment, and for other purposes", approved February 28, 1925 (43 Stat. 1053, as amended), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: Hours of work for "After June 30, 1941, laborers in the Railway Mail Service shall laborers. Proidos. be required to work not more than eight hours a day: Provided, That Restriction. the eight hours of service shall not extend over a longer period than tell consecutive hours, anld the schedules of duty of such employees Overtime pay. shall )e regullted accordingly: Provided further, That in cases of elnergency, or if the needs of the Service require, and it is not prac- ticable to employ substitutes, such employees can be required to work in excess of eight hours per day, and for such overtime service they shall be paid on the basis of the annual pay received by such Computation. employees: And provided further, That in computing the compensa- tion for such overtime the annual salary or compensation for such employees shall be divided by three hundred and five, the number of working days in the year less all Sundays and legal holidays; the quotient thus obtained will be the daily compensation which divided 48 tat 958 by eight will give the hourly compensation for such overtime service." 39 U. S.C. 607. SEC. 2 . The fifth paragraph of such section 7, as amended, of Substitute laborers. such Act of February 28, 1925, is amended to read as follows: Pay and service "Substitute laborers in the Railway Mail Service shall be paid credit, for services actually performed at the rate of 55 cents per hour, and when appointed to the position of regular laborer the substitute service performed shall be included in eligibility for promotion to grade 2 on the basis of three hundred and five days of eight hours constituting a year's service." Approved, October 23, 1941. 744

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