220 THE USE BOOK. 



the city of Washington may, in the discretion of the Secretary 



of Agriculture, without additional expense to 



Annual lea?e. the Government, be granted leaves of absence 



not to exceed fifteen days in any one year, 



which leave may, in exceptional and meritorious cases where 



such an employee is ill, be extended, in the 



Sick leaYe. discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, not 



to exceed fifteen days additional in any one 



year. (See also act of May 23, 1908, p. 222.) 



***** 

 Hereafter on or before the first day of January of each year 

 the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to 

 mates. l " Congress classified and detailed reports of all 



receipts by the Forest Service and classified 

 and detailed estimates of all expenditures intended for this 

 service for the next fiscal year, and detailed reports of all 

 expenditures under any appropriation for such service during 

 the preceding fiscal year. * * * ^11 

 fund P dTsc S oitinSed. nioney received after July first, nineteen hun- 

 dred and seven, by or on account of the For- 

 est Service for timber, or from any other source of forest reser- 

 vation revenue, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United 

 States as a miscellaneous receipt, and there is hereby appro- 

 priated and made available as the Secretary of Agriculture may 

 direct out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated so much as may be necessary to make 

 Refunds. refunds to depositors of money heretofore 



or hereafter deposited by them to secure the 

 purchase price on the sale of any products or for the use of any 

 land or resources of the national forests in excess of amounts 

 found actually due from them to the United States. 



ACT OF MAY 23, 1908 (PUBLIC 136). 



[9] GENERAL EXPENSES, FOREST SERVICE: To enable the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture to experiment and to 

 Experiments and make and continue investigations and report 

 Sy! on forestry, National Forests, forest fires, 



and lumbering, but no part of this appropria- 

 tion shall be used for any experiment or test made outside the 

 jurisdiction of the United States; to investi- 

 Tlmber testing. gate and test American timber and timber 

 trees, and their uses, and methods for the pre- 

 servative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations 

 and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for 

 the treeless regions : to erect necessary buildings : Provided, That 

 the cost of any building erected shall not exceed five hundred 



