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 57 STAT.] 78TH CONG., IST SESS.-CHS. 109, 115-JUNE 1, 2, 1943 [CHAPTER 109] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the hours of employment and safeguard the health of females employed in the District of Columbia", approved February 24, 1914. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the hours of employment and safeguard the health of females employed in the District of Colum- bia", approved February 24, 1914, be amended as follows: By chang- ing the period at the end of section 1 to a colon and inserting the following: "Provided, That the Minimum Wage and Industrial Safety Board of the District of Columbia, during the period ending June 30, 1945, or such earlier date as the Congress by concurrent resolution may determine, may issue to employers engaged in businesses or occupations specified in this section of this Act, upon satisfactory showing to the said Board that such action is essential to the war effort, a temporary permit, for such period of time and in such form as it may deem advisable, to employ females for more than eight hours in any one day, or more than forty-eight hours, but not to exceed fifty-four hours, in any one week: Provided further, That in cases where said Board has issued permits under this section the employer shall pay employees working under such permits an addi- tional sum at the rate of time and one-half for the time they are employed in excess of the limitations under existing law. A true and correct copy of all permits issued pursuant to the authority granted herein shall be displayed by the employer in a prominent place, and in such case the employer shall not be required to post the notice required in section 4 of this Act." Approved June 1, 1943. [CHAPTER 115] AN ACT Making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, for civil func- tions administered by the War Department, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America hi Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, for civil functions administered by the War Department, and for other pur- poses, namely: QUARTERMASTER CORPS CEMETEBIAL EXPENSES For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for and pay of superintendents and the superintendent at Mexico City, and other employees; purchase of grave sites; purchase of tools and materials; repair, maintenance, and operation of passenger- carrying motor vehicles; care and maintenance of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, chapel, and grounds in the Arlington National Cemetery, and that portion of Congressional Cemetery to which the United States has title and the graves of those buried therein, including Confederate graves, and including the burial site of Pushmataha, a Choctaw Indian chief; repair to roadways but not to more than a single approach road to any national cemetery con- structed under special Act of Congress; for headstones or markers for June 1, 1943 [H. R. 7771 [Public Law 63] District of Colum- bia. Employment of fe- males. 38 Stat. 291. D. C. Code §36-301. Temporary permit to extend hours. Additional pay. Display of copy of permit. 38 Stat. 291. D.C. Code §36-304. June 2, 1943 [H. R. 2346] [Public Law 64] War DepartImenl Civil Appropriation Act. 1944. I'at, ppi. 544, 631 Maintenance, etc. Headstones. 93

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