the type for setting the maximum rent was adopted as the one existing on 31 December 1919. A Rent Commission was established in the capital, consisting of three members appointed by the National Administration Council, the High Court of Justice and the Departmental Council of Montevideo, and in the campaign departments "Commissions made up of officials dependent on those same high authorities." The Rental Commissions would resolve "in an unappealable manner all the issues initiated by both the owners and the tenants." Under a 1919 law, the B.H.U. "authorized loans to build houses in industrial neighborhoods." In addition, a law of 27 May 1920 "authorized the CNA to project a plan of economic constructions destined to 'provide cheap rooms to the most needy classes.'" The Assembly was asked for a supplementary credit of $50,000 to go to the aid of the working population of Cerro, "who lacked work in the refrigerators and who were struggling in misery." The subsidy was raised successively to $100,000 and $150,000 "as a means of providing food for all the inhabitants of the country without means of subsistence." The task was then give to Public Assistance to provide food to the unemployed. A law of the General Assembly authorized the National Administration Council "to gradually apply the agrarian pledge law in force since 1918." In use of it, the National Council created within the National Inspection of Livestock and Agriculture a section of "Economy and Rural Credit" that was intended "for the promotion of agricultural credit and the registration of pledge contracts." An Act of 1921 provided for the protection of factory workers. A Decree of 2 October 1922 acted as a guide "in determining which foods are to be considered fit or unfit for human consumption." A Decree of 18 October 1920 included messengers in the Law of eight hours. A law of 10 December 1923 made 24 hours of rest compulsory "after six days of labour or every six days if the system of rest in rotation were adopted." Domestic servants were also covered, "with a special act of 19 November 1920 providing for this group and chauffeurs." Under a law of 15 February 1923 the benefits of a weekly rest were extended to rural labourers "although it was already common practice in the interior." In 1922, the Mortgage Bank was authorized to grant loans on land intended for agriculture, up to 15%