Volume 39
Public Law 64–2
Authorizing and directing the Department of Labor to make an inquiry into the cost of living in the District of Columbia and to report thereon to Congress as early as practicable.
Approved December 20, 1916
Statutory text
Joint Resolution
Authorizing and directing the Department of Labor to make an inquiry into the cost of living in the District of Columbia and to report thereon to Congress as early as practicable.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Department of
District of Columbia.
Appropriation for inquiry into cost of living in.
Labor be, and hereby is, 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 Congress 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
Employees from civil service eligibles.
appropriation shall be selected from among the persons eligible on any civil-service register.
Approved, December 20, 1916.