Act of June 15, 1906, ch. 3333, 34 Stat. 267
An Act To amend section sixty-four of the bankruptcy Act
Fifty-Ninth Congress, Session I · Approved June 15, 1906
Rewrites the fourth priority in section 64b so that it covers wages due to workmen, clerks, traveling or city salesmen, or servants earned within three months before the commencement of proceedings, not exceeding $300 to each claimant. The change adds traveling and city salesmen to the class of wage claimants entitled to priority.
This is an unofficial transcription, prepared by Robert J. Pfister for ease of reading and copying. The authoritative text is the United States Statutes at Large.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That clause four of subdivision B of section sixty-four of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
“Fourth. Wages due to workmen, clerks, traveling or city salesmen, or servants which have been earned within three months before the date of commencement of proceedings, not to exceed three hundred dollars to each claimant.”
Approved, June 15, 1906.