NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL - LAWS. 15 



Agricultural appropriation act of May 23, 1908 (35 Stat., 251). 



[267] The employees of the Department of Agriculture, outside of Leave of ab- 

 the city of Washington, may hereafter, in the discretion of the Sec- flav 

 retary of Agriculture, be granted leave of absence not to exceed fifteen ice. 

 days in any one year, which leave may in exceptional and merito- 

 rious cases where such an employee is ill, be extended, in the discre- 

 tion of the Secretary of Agriculture, not to exceed fifteen days addi- 

 tional in any one year. 



Agricultural appropriation act of May 23, 1908 (35 Stat., 251). 



And hereafter officials of the Forest Service designated by the Cooperation 

 Secretary of Agriculture shall, in all ways that are practicable, aid with other de- 

 in the enforcement of the laws of the States and Territories with regard par 

 to stock, for the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and 

 for the protection of fish and game, and, with respect to National For- 

 ests, shall aid the other Federal bureaus and departments, on request 

 from them, in the performance of the duties imposed on them by law. 



Act of March 11,1912 (37 Stat., 74), extending to certain employees of the Forest Service 

 and Bureau of Mines the right to compensation under the act of May 30, 1908, 

 for injuries sustained. 



That the provisions of the act approved May thirtieth, nineteen Compensation 

 hundred and eight, entitled "An act granting to certain employees of t employees in- 

 the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries hazard " 



sustained in the course of their employment, ' ' shall, in addition to the 

 classes of persons therein designated, be held to apply to any artisan, 

 laborer, or other employee engaged in any hazardous work under the 

 Bureau of Mines or the Forestry Service of the United States: Pro- 

 vided, That this act shall not be held to embrace any case arising prior 

 to its passage. 



(The act above made applicable is printed next below.) 



Act of May 30, 1908 (35 Stat., 556), granting to certain employees of the United States the 

 right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their 

 employment. 



That when, on or after August first, nineteen hundred and eight, any Compensation 



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person employed by the United States as an artisan or laborer in any [alnecl 

 of its manufacturing establishments, arsenals, or navy yards, or in ardous work. 

 the construction of river and harbor or fortification work or in hazardous 

 employment on construction work in the reclamation of arid lands or 

 the managemen^ and control of the same, or in hazardous employment 

 under the Isthmian Canal Commission, is injured in the course of such 

 employment such employee shall be entitled to receive for one year 

 thereafter, unless such employee, in the opinion of the Secretary of 

 Commerce and Labor, be sooner able to resume work, the same pay as 

 if he continued to be employed, such payment to be made under such 

 regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe: 

 Provided, That no compensation shall be paid under this act where the Time limit. 

 injury is due to the negligence or misconduct of the employee injured, 

 nor unless said injury shall continue for more than fifteen days. All 

 questions of negligence or misconduct shall be determined by the 

 Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 



SEC. 2. That if any artisan or laborer so employed shall die during Compensation 

 the said year by reason of such injury received in the course of such children^ 8 and 

 employment, leaving a widow, or a child or children under sixteen 

 years of age, or a dependent parent, such widow and child or children 

 and dependent parent shall be entitled to receive, in such portions 

 and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor 

 may prescribe, the same amount, for the remainder of the said year, 

 that said artisan or laborer would be entitled to receive as pay if such 

 employee were alive and continued to be employed: Provided, That 

 if the widow shall die at any time during the said year her portion of 

 said amount shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining 

 beneficiaries under the provisions of this section, if there be any. 



SEC. 3. That whenever an accident occurs to any employee embraced Reports of inju- 

 within the terms of the first section of this act. and which results in ries> 



