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Public Law 75–653

To extend the provisions of the forty-hour law for postal employees to watchmen and messengers in the Postal Service.

Approved August 16, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

To extend the provisions of the forty-hour law for postal employees to watchmen and messengers in the Postal Service.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the first

Postal Service.

Shorter work week provisions extended to watchmen and messengers.

49 Stat. 650.

39 U. S. C., Supp. II, § 832.

section of the Act entitled “An Act to fix the hours of duty of postal employees, and for other purposes”, approved August 14, 1935, is amended by striking out the words “and laborers” and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “laborers, watchmen, and messengers”.

Approved, August 16, 1937.

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