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In all public works constructed in Puerto Rico, whether by contract or by administration, where the Commonwealth Government, any municipality of Puerto Rico or any commission or board approved by virtue of law, is an interested party, and where it may be necessary to employ laborers, workingmen or mechanics, these shall not be permitted or compelled to work more than eight hours daily in any natural day, excepting in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, inundation or danger to lives or property; and every laborer, workingman or mechanic employed in any Commonwealth or municipal public work shall receive not less than one dollar ($1.00) for each legal day’s work performed. History —June 30, 1923, No. 11, p. 186, § 1; July 23, 1925, No. 54, p. 302, § 1.