OFFICERS, CLERKS, AND EMPLOYEES. 293 



ijiiiiiial 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 or 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 stop upon the expiration of the granted leave. 



Hereafter it shall be the duty of the head of each Executive De- 

 partment to require monthly reports to be made to him as to the 

 condition of the public business in the several bureaus or offices of 

 his Department at Washington ; and in each case where such reports 

 disclose that the public business is in arrears, the head of the De- 



{)artment in which such arrears exist shall require, as provided 

 ierein, an extension of the hours of service to such clerks or em- 

 ployees as may be necessary to bring up such arrears of public 

 Dusmess. 



Hereafter it shall be the duty of the head of each Executive De- 

 partment, or other Government establishment at the seat of govern- 

 ment, not under an Executive Department, to make at the expiration 

 of each quarter of the fiscal year a written report to the President 

 as to the condition of the public business in his Executive Depart- 

 ment or Government establishment, and whether any branch thereof 

 is in arrears. 



Act March 3, 1893. c. 211, s. 5. 27 Stat. 715, as amended by act March 

 15, 1898. c. 68. s. 7, 30 Stat, 316, 



These are provisions of the legislative, executive, and judicial appro- 

 priation act for the fiscal year 1894, cited above, as amended by the 

 similar appropriation net for the fiscal year 1899 also cited. Provisions 

 relating to the subject of this section, contained in the similar appropria- 

 tion act for the fiscal year 1884, jict March 3, 1883, c. 128, s. 4, 22 Stat. 

 563, were substantially incorporated in said act March 3, 1893. c. 211, as 

 originally enacted. 



ACT JULY 7. 1898, c. 571. (30 Stat. 652.) 



Annual leave of absence, notwithstanding sick leave. 



Nothing contained in section seven of the Act making appropria- 

 tions for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Govern- 

 ment for the fi.scal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, approved 

 March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be con- 

 strued to prevent the head of any Executive Department from grant- 

 ing 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 \'ear not exceeding thirty days' leave with pay on account 

 of sickness as provided in said section seven. 



Act July 7, 1898, c. 571. s. 1, 30 Stat. 653. 



This is a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1898, cited above. 



Section 7 of act ^Larch 15, 1898, c. 68. was an amendment of section 5 

 of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1894, act March 3, 1893, c. 211, which, as amended, is set forth above. 



Purchase of recording clocks forbidden. 



* * * That no recording clocks used for recording time of clerks 

 or other employees shall be purchased for use in any of the Executive 



