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Labour Bureau, defined in the Labour Bureau (London) Act,1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 13), as 'an office or place used for the purpose of supplying information, either by the keeping of registers or otherwise, respecting employers who desire to engage workpeople and workmen who seek engagement of employment.' The Act empowers the council of any metropolitan borough to establish and maintain such a bureau out of the general rate. [Labour Bureau (London) Act, 1902...
state workforce agency
state workforce agency The agency or bureau in each State that deals with employment and labor issues. For the address of workforce agency in each State go to the U.S. Department of Labor Foreign Labor Certification site. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
consumer price index
An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer calculated and published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics abbreviated CPI and usually referred to by that acronym The Bureau maintains several indices for different groups of consumers but the most commonly referred to is the index for ldquoAll urban consumersrdquo called the CPI U The increase of this value each year is one measure of monetary inflation...
Coast and Geodetic Survey
A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior It now belongs to the Department of Commerce and Labor...
Solicitor
Solicitor, an officer of the Supreme Court of Judicature, who, and who only, is entitled to 'sue out any writ or process, or commence, carry on, solicit, or defend any action, suit or other proceeding' in any Court whatever (see (English) Solicitors Act, 1932, s. 45). 'Solicitor of the Supreme Court' was the title given by the (English) Judicature Act, 1843, s. 87, to all attorneys, solicitors, and proctors, and continued by (English) Solicitors Act 1932, s. 81. Prior to that Act, 'attorneys' conducted business in the Common Law Courts, 'solicitors' business in the Court of Chancery and 'proctors' ecclesiastical and Admiralty business; but it was the general practice, although any person might be admitted to practise as an attorney or solicitor only, to be admitted to practise as an attorney and solicitor also.Solicitors practise as advocates before magistrates at petty sessions and quarter sessions where there is no bar, in County Courts, at Arbitrations, at Judges' Chambers, Coroners...
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