...unlawful for any officer of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia or any such contractor or subcontractor whose duty it shall be to employ, direct, or control the services of such laborers or mechanics to require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work...

...unlawful for any officer of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia, or any such contractor or subcontractor, whose duty it shall be to employ, direct, or control the service of such laborers or mechanics, to require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work...

...unlawful for any officer of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia or any such contractor or subcontractor whose duty it shall be to employ, direct, or control the services of such laborers or mechanics to require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work...

...of extraordinary emergency. SEC. 2. That any officer or agent of the Government of the United States or of the District of Columbia or any contractor 'or subcontractor whose dutyit shall be to employ, direct, or control any laborer or mechanic employed щит any of the public...

...the Eastern Dredging Company: Men engaged in dredging a channel in Boston Harbor cannot be said to be employed upon any of the public works of the United States or of the District of Columbia. As to what are "public works" see Century Dictionary, p. 4830. Ellis v. Common...

...imprisonment, except in case of extraordinary emergency,. against requiring or permitting laborers or mechanics employed upon any of the public works of the United States or of the District of Columbia to work more than eight hours each day, is held, in Ellis v. United States, Advance...

...Government of the United States, of the District of Columbia, or by any contractor or sub-contractor upon any of the public works of the United States, or of the said District of Columbia, is hereby limited and restricted to eight hours of any one calendar day....

...~for~in^ stance, a fine. In the act of Congress now under consideration it is made" an" offense for any contractor or subcontractor, whose duty it shall be to employ, direct, or control any laborer employed upon any of the public works of the United States, to require or permit such laborer to work...

...unlawful for any officer of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia, or any such contractor or subcontractor, whose duty It shall be to employ, direct, or control the service of such laborers or mechanics, to require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work...

...unlawful for any officer of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia, or any such contractor or subcontractor whose duty it shall be to employ, direct, or control the services of such laborers or mechanics, to require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work...