812 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



52. Leave for 5 days or less. — Observers, inspectors, Buperintendente in charge 

 of stations, chiefs of field parties, or other supervising officials may grant to employees 

 of their respective olhces or forces permission to be absent for periods not exceeding 5 

 days, but in every such case the absence must be promptly reported to the chief of 

 the bureau at Washington, who will cause the same to be entered upon and filed witii 

 the employee's record. 



53. I'lELD EMPLOYEKS SERVING PART OF TIME IN WASHINGTON. — Regular employees 

 of the department outside of Washington, who are transferred to the service in Wash- 

 ington, may be granted leaves of absence at the rate of H days per month until date 

 of transfer, and 2^ days per month in Washington. Field employees serving tempo- 

 rarily in Washington will not be granted leave in excess of 15 days annual and 15 days 

 sick in any one year. 



54. Enforcement of regulations. — Chiefs of bureaus and all supervisory officiala 

 will be held strictly responsible and accountable for the enforcement of these regula- 

 tions. 



James Wilson, Secretary. 



APPENDIX. 



provisions of law relating to leaves of absence op clerks and other 



employees. 



In section 7 of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act approved 

 March 15, 1898, it is provided that — 



"* * * The head of any department may grant thirty days' annual leave with 

 pay in any one year to each clerk or employee: And provided further, That where some 

 member of the immediate family of a clerk or employee is afflicted with a contagious 

 disease and requires the care and attendance of such employee, or where his or her 

 presence in the department would jeopardize the health of fellow clerks, and in excep- 

 tional and meritorious cases, where a clerk or employee is personally ill and where to 

 limit the annual leave to thirty days in any one calendar year would work peculiar 

 hardship, it may be extended, in the discretion of the head of the department, with 

 pay, not exceeding thirty days in any one case in any one calendar year. 



"This section shall not be construed to mean that so long as a clerk or employee is 

 borne upon the rolls of the department in excess of the time herein provided for or 

 granted that he or she shall be entitled to pay during the period of such excessive 

 absence, but that the pay shall be stopped upon the expiration of the granted leave." 



The deficiency appropriation act approved July 7, 1898, pro^vddes that — 



***** nothing contained in section seven of the act making appropriations for 

 legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year 

 eighteen hundred and ninety -nine, approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-eight, shall be construed to prevent the head of any executive department 

 from granting thirty days' annual leave with pay in any one year to a clerk or employee, 

 notwithstanding such clerk or employee may have had during such year not exceeding 

 thirty days' leave with pay on account of sickness as provided in said section seven.'' 



The legislative, executive, and judicial act approved February 24, 1899, provides 

 that — 



"* * * the thirty days' annual leave of absence with pay in any one year to 

 clerks and employees in the several executive departments authorized by existing 

 law shall be exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays." 



Department of Agriculture, 



Office of the Secretary, 

 Washington, D. C, January 24, 1911. 

 Special Order. 



Owing to the death of Dr. C. A. Herter, a member of the referee board of consulting 

 scientific experts to the Secretary of Agriculture, special order, dated February 24, 1908, 

 is hereby amended so as to include the name of Dr. Theobald Smith as a member of 

 said board, vice Dr. Herter. 



Said board shall therefore consist of the following persons: Dr. Ira Remsen, chair- 

 man; Dr. Russell H. Chittenden; Dr. John H. Long; Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor; and 

 Dr. Theobald Smith. 



James Wilson, 

 Secretary oj Agriculture. 



