Volume 15
Public Law 40–LXXII
constituting eight Homs a Day’s Work for all Laborers, Workmen, and Mechanics employed by or on Behalf of the Government of the United States.
Approved June 25, 1868
Statutory text
An Act
constituting eight Homs a Day’s Work for all Laborers, Workmen, and Mechanics employed by or on Behalf of the Government of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That eight hours shall constitute
Eight hours to constitute a day’s work for mechanics, laborers, &c. employed by the United States.
a day’s work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics now employed, or who may be hereafter employed, by or on behalf of the government of the United States; and that all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved, .