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Title: Labor standards: Statistics concerning staffing and compliance activity by the United States Department of Labor, 1976-1986
Date: 1986
Summary: This report presents a statistical review of the pattern of staffing and enforcement/compliance activity within the United States Department of Labor through fiscal years 1976 to 1986. It notes the work hours required to administer the following statutes: the Fair Labor Standards Act; the several Federal procurement labor standards statutues -- the Davis-Bacon Act, the Walsh-Healy Act, and the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act; and the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act and its successor, after 1983, the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act. It also notes the number of violations of the several acts and the dollar amounts of back wages involved, where applicable. All tables have been developed from data provided by the Wage and Hour Division, United States Department of Labor.

Title: Joint sessions and joint meetings of Congress, April 6, 1789 - January 27, 1987
Date: 1987

Title: Joint and several liability: Recent changes in state tort law
Date: 1987
Summary: About half the states have recently modified or eliminated their laws on joint and several liability. In these states, if two or more defendants contribute to a tort, then, at least in some circumstances, each is liable only in proportion to his share of responsibility, instead of 100 percent liable.

Title: Land Grant
Date: 1560
Summary: Elizabeth Dei Gracia Angli Francia et Hibernia Regina Fidei Defensor Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England. Land grant written in Latin on vellum, with the Great Seal of Elizabeth. Hampton: 1560. Vellum leaf (12 1/8 x 21 3/8"; 308 X 543 mm.) and brown wax seal (3 1/2 inches d; 89 mm. d). Twenty lines in Latin, written with brown ink in a bastard secretary hand. Leaf, seal, and a small engraved portrait of Elizabeth by W.T. Fry matted in red velvet in a large wooden frame (39 1/2 x 32 1/4 inches; 1003 x 819 mm.) with a decorative floral design carved along the edges.

Title: Household accounting document.
Date: 1503
Summary: Alcala de Henares, Spain. Isabel I, Queen of Spain. Document on paper, in Spanish, signed "Yo la Reyna." Alcalá de Henares, 12 July 1503. Folio (29.3 cm). On the first two and a half pages the queen orders Sancho de Paredes, her chamberlain, to turn a large number of things over to Juan de Tabira, her under-chamberlain. The items to be given are listed: woolens and linens, including hangings and bedding linens, all itemized and minutely described. The top half of the last page is a receipt signed by Tabira. The document has the usual slash of cancellation (visible above) indicating that it has been entered into the account books.

Title: English royal deed in the name of Philip (II) and Mary (Tudor), on parchment with their seal appended.
Date: 1558

Title: The homeless: Editorial commentary
Date: 1986
Summary: Homelessness is sometimes the condition of the deinstitutionalized mentally ill, the aged, the voluntarily idle, and the temporarily unemployed; and of runaway youth, destitute families, drug addicts, street beggars and alcoholics--in urban and rural areas. There appears to be no single set of characteristics shared by the homeless except being poor and without housing, and often lacking food and medical care as well. This Editorial Commentary looks at the "problems" of the homeless and those who search for remedies using selected editorials. It also covers actions taken by local and State governments to address the problems. The Editorial Commentary includes an introductory section of newspaper articles on the homeless. It is divided into sections - one focusing on the problem; the other on actions that have been taken to deal with the problem. Both sections are arranged in reverse chronological order. The editorials were selected from the editorial collection maintained by the Library Services Division.

Title: Housing assistance: A brief history and description of current HUD programs
Date: 1987
Summary: Federal assistance to housing for low-income families began with the United States Housing Act of 1937 (P.L. 75-412) which provided funds for construction and administration of low-rent projects by local, State-chartered public housing agencies (PHA). This report is concerned with those subsidy programs administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and whether as presently constituted they best serve the housing needs of the Nation's low-income families.

Title: Legality of receiving satellite signals carrying cable programs
Date: 1984
Summary: The right of satellite dish owners to tune into cable programs being relayed by satellite signals has been the subject of extensive consideration by the 98th Congress. On October 30, 1984, enactment of Public Law No. 98-549, effective on December 29, 1984, provided a statutory right of backyard dish owners to watch cable programming being carried by the unencrypted satellite signals. However, if the owners to the rights of such programming establish a marketing system for the sale of such viewing rights, the dish owners are obligated to purchase such rights at the agreed upon price. The report briefly discusses the provisions and context of this new law. A more in-depth analysis of the subject area is contained in the CRS report entitled Unauthorized Reception of Communications Satellite Signals Carrying Video Programs dated August 6, 1984 (before passage of the new law).