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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · May 24, 1928 · Chapter 725

Chapter 725. To provide a differential in pay for night work in the Postal Service

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Chap. 725: To provide a differential in pay for night work in the Postal Service. Chapter 725 45 Stat. 725 1928-05-24 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 725.— An Act To provide a differential in pay for night work in the Postal Service. May 24, 1928.[[H. R. 5681](/us/bill/70/hr/5681).][[Public, No. 496](/us/pl/70/496).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That after July 1, Postal Service.Extra pay to employees for night work.1928, supervisory employees, special clerks, clerks, substitute clerks, watchmen, messengers, laborers, and employees of the motor-vehicle service, in first and second class post offices; carriers and substitute carriers in the City Delivery Service; and railway postal clerks, substitute railway postal clerks, and laborers in the Railway Mail Service, who are required to perform night work, shall be paid extra for such work at the rate of 10 per centum of their hourly pay per *Proviso.*Night work defined.hour: *Provided,* That night work is defined as any work done between the hours of six o’clock postmeridian and six o’clock antemeridian.
Nicholas Longworth *Speaker of the House of Representatives. * Charles G. Dawes *Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.* 726 In the House of Representatives, United States *May 22, 1928* Passage by the House of Representatives. The House having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill (H. R. 5681) entitled “An Act to provide a differential in pay for night work in the Postal Service,” returned to the House by the President of the United States, with his objections thereto, with the message of the President returning the bill; and *Resolved,* That the bill do pass, two-thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same.
Attest: Wm. Tyler Page *Clerk.* In the Senate of the United States *May 3 (calendar day, May 24), 1928* Passage by the Senate. The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill (H. R. 5681) entitled “An Act to provide a differential in pay for night work in the Postal Service,” returned by the President of the United States to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with his objections, and passed by the House of Representatives on a reconsideration of the same, it was *Resolved,* That the bill pass, two-thirds of the Senators present having voted in the affirmative.
Attest: Edwin P. Thayer *Secretary.*
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