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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS. II . CHS .102,105,106 . 1929 .

1139 EMPLOYMENT SERVICE Employment Se rv- ice. To enable the Secretary of Labor to foster, promote, and develop Promoti ng welfare o f the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, including jun- wage earners . iors legally employed, to improve their working conditions, to advance their opportunities for profitable employment by regularly Objects designated. collecting, furnishing, and publishing employment information as to opportunities for employment; maintaining a system for clearing labor between the several States; cooperating with and coordinating the public emplo yment office s thro ughout the co untry, inclu ding p er- sonal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling Traveling expenses . exP ~ enses; supplies and equipment, telegraph and telephone Service, tr Services the n ~' p, and miscellaneous expenses; $217,000, of which amount not to exceed $27,360 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. Approved, January 25, 1929 . CHAP . 10 5 .-An Act To amend Public Law Numbered 254, approved June January 2B, 1929 . 20, 1906, known as the organic school law, so as to relieve individual members of

[is .] the Board of Education of personal liability for acts of the board .

[P ub l ic, No o. ss7 .] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the District of Columbia. United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Law Boar d of Educati on. Numbered 254, approved June 20, 1906, be amended by adding, at the end of section 2 of said Act, the following :

Members not person- " The members of the Board of Education of the District of ally liable for official Columbia shall not be personally liable in damages for any official acts o .34

etc. ame nd- action of the said board performed in good faith in which the said ed. members participate, nor shall any member of said board be liable fo r any costs that m ay be taxed agains t them or the board on ac count of any such official action by them as members of the said board; bu t such costs shall be ch arged to the Distri ct of Columb ia and paid as other costs are paid in suits brought against the municipality; nor shall the said board or any of it members be required to give any supersedeas bond or security for costs or damages on any appeal what ever . " Approved, January 26, 1929 . CHAP. 106.-An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to grant a rig

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4 .] way to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company across the Benicia Arsenal [Public, No. 688.] Milit ary R eserv ation , Cal iforn ia . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the ]3enicia Arsenal, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Calif. of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to an t to the South ern Right o[ way granted ,~

acros s, to Southern Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation, incorporated and con- Pacific Railroad Com- pa ny for under the laws of the States of California, Arizona, and

s . railroad pur- New Mexico, its successors and assigns, under such terms and con- ditions as may be approved by the Secretary of War, a right of way over and across the Benicia Arsenal Military Reservation, Califor- nia, for railroad purposes, with full power to locate, construct, and operate railroad tracks, structures, telegraph, telephone or signal wires and other railroad appurtenances, appendages, and adjuncts, the location and width of such right of way to be determined by the Secretary of War : Provided, That the land shall not be used for R version for no n- other than railroad purposes, and when the property shall cease u ser. to be so used it shall revert to the United States . Approved, January 26, 1929 .