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Public Law 75–474

To amend section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the lives and health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and to establish a Minimum Wage Board, and to define its powers and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers, and for other purposes”, approved September 19, 1918 (40 Stat. 960, Sixty-fifth Congress).

Approved June 16, 1938

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the lives and health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and to establish a Minimum Wage Board, and to define its powers and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers, and for other purposes”, approved September 19, 1918 (40 Stat. 960, Sixty-fifth Congress).

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

That section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to protect the lives and health and morals of women and minor workers in the District of Columbia, and to establish a Minimum Wage Board, and to define its powers and duties, and to provide for the fixing of minimum wages for such workers,

40 Stat. 961.

and for other purposes”, approved September 19, 1918 (40 Stat. 960, Sixty-fifth Congress), be amended by striking out the words “and receive such salary, not in excess of $2,500 per annum, as may be fixed by the Board,” and inserting in lieu thereof “The compensation of the Secretary and all other employees of the Board shall be fixed in

5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. III, §§ 673, 673c.

accordance with the provisions of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.”

Approved, June 16, 1938.

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