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582 Dissolution on com- pleting obligations . Di visi on of mon eys in hand . Limitation on creat- ing obligations, etc . Penal provisions. Amen dment. April 13, 1934. (S . 2689. ] [Public, No . 157.] Depa rtment of La- bor . Special statistical studies, etc ., upon re- quest, authorized . scope . Payment of cost . Credit of receipts . 73d CONGRESS . SESS. II. CHS. 117, 118. APRIL 13, 1934 . shall be paid solely from the funds provided under the authority of this Act . After all bonds and interest thereon shall have been paid and a ll other obli gations of the Commission p aid or discha rged or provi sion for all such payment s hall have bee n made as her ein0ore provided, and after the bridge shall have been conveyed to the Illinois interests and the Kentucky interests as herein provided, and any ferry or ferries shall have been sold, the Commission shall be dissolved and shall cease to have further existence by an order of the C hief of the B ureau of Publi c Roads made upon his own initia- tive or upon application of the Commission or any member or mem- bers thereof, but only after a public hearing in the city of Cairo, notice of the time and place of which hearing and the purpose thereof shall have been published once, at least thirty days before the date thereof, in a newspaper published in the city of Cairo, and a news- paper published in Ballard County, Kentucky . At the time of such dissolution all moneys in the hands of or to the credit of the Com- mission shall be divided into two equal parts, one of which shall be paid to said Illinois interests and the other to said Kentucky interests . SEC . 10 . Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or permit the Commission or any member thereof to create any obli- gation or incur any liability other than such obligations and lia- bilities as are dischargeable solely from funds provided by this Act . No obligation created or liability incurred pursuant to this Act shall be an obligation or liability of any member or members of the Com- mission but shall be chargeable solely to the funds herein provided, nor shall any indebtedness created pursuant to this Act be an indebtedness of the United States . SEC . 11 . All provisions of this Act may be enforced, or the viola- tion thereof prevented, by mandamus, injunction, or other appro- priate remedy brought by the attorney general for the State of Illinois, the attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or the United States district attorney for any district in which the bridge may be located in part, in any court having competent juris- diction of the subject matter and of the parties . SEC . 12 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved . Approved, April 13, 1934 . [CHAPTER 118.] AN ACT To a uthorize the Departm ent of Labor to make special statistical studies upon payment of the cost thereof, and for other purposes . Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Depart- ment of Labor be, and hereby is, authorized, within the discretion of the Secretary of Labor, upon the written request of any person, to make special statistical studies relating to employment, hours of work, wages, and other conditions of employment ; to prepare from its records special statistical compilations ; and to furnish transcripts of its studies, tables, and other records, upon the payment of the actual cost of such work by the person requesting it . SEC . 2 . All moneys hereinafter received by the Department of Labor in payment of the cost of such work shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation of that bureau, service, office, divi- sio n, or other a gency of the Department of Labor which s upervised suc h work, and m ay be used, i n the discreti on of the Sec retary of Labor, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the ordinary expenses of such agency and/or to secure the special serv-