ISLANDS.

MANILA, November 23, 1902.

EXECUTIVE ORDER

No. 110.

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Pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Congress of July first, nineteen hundred and two, the ratio for the reduction of United States currency and Insular currency is hereby fixed at one dollar United States currency for two dollars and sixty cents Insular currency; this rate to remain in force for at least ten days and until further order.

WM. H. TAFT,

Civil Governor.

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ISLANDS.

MANILA, P. I., November 23, 1902.

EXECUTIVE ORDER

No. 111.

The Chief of the Bureau of Public Lands is designated to act as administrator of the estate of the San Lazaro Hospital and to perform all the duties connected with such position formerly imposed upon the Insular Treasurer, who is relieved from such duty upon the termination of an accounting which the Chief of the Bureau of Public Lands shall proceed immediately to have with the Insular Treasurer.

All authority previously vested in the Insular Treasurer by virtue of the provisions of Executive Order No. 7 shall hereafter be vested in the Chief of the Bureau of Public Lands.

WM. H. TAFT,

Civil Governor.

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The following regulations shall govern the matter of leaves of absence granted under the provisions of Act Numbered Eighty to all officials, including heads of Offices or Bureaus, and to all employees, filling appointive offices and positions of trust and employment under the Government of the Philippine Islands, and are hereby published for the information and guidance of all concerned in order that a uniform practice may obtain throughout the service. All orders heretofore issued from the office of the Military Governor and from this office relating thereto are hereby revoked.

1. Heads of Offices or Bureaus are directed to keep a systematic record, on a form provided for that purpose, of leaves of absence of all officers and employees connected with their Offices or Bureaus respectively, and to enter daily upon this record all absences from duty showing whether with leave, without leave, or on sick leave, and to forward to the Civil Service Board at the beginning of each month, on Form Three furnished by said Board, a statement of the absences of all officers and employees from any cause whatever during the preceding month.

II. In submitting statements of leaves of absence, preliminary to granting leave to officers and employees under the provisions of sections two and three of Act Numbered Eighty, all heads of Offices or Bureaus will forward a prompt and clear report through the Civil Service Board on a form prescribed by said Board showing all absences from duty, including therein the period or periods of leave, if any, previously enjoyed, and whether with leave, without leave, or on sick leave.