ISLANDS. MANILA, P. T., January 14, 1902. EXECUTIVE ÜRDER ) No. 47. F. A. Meacham, Chief Health Inspector; Paul C. Freer, Superintendent of Government Laboratories, and W. W. Richards, City Veterinarian, are hereby appointed a committee for the purpose of investigating, reporting upon, and fixing the responsibility for the loss, by death. of ten native ponies for which Theodore Gruener, first class inspector, Philippines Constabulary, is accountable. LUKE E. WRIGHT, ISLANDS. MANILA, P. I., January 13, 1902. EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 48. The following rules for the computation and allowance of leave of absence, under the provisions of Act Numbered Eighty, United States Philippine Commission, are published for the information and guidance of all concerned: In submitting statements of leave of absence all heads of departments and bureaus will forward a prompt and clear report to the Civil Service Board of leave of absence granted employees, including therein the period or periods of leave, if any, previously enjoyed by employees, and the calculations in the premises showing the amount of available leave. 1. Accruing leave of absence of an employee in the Insular Civil Service shall be computed pro rata in accordance with the schedule contained in section two of Act Numbered Eighty. The leave of an employee accruing while he was connected with the Army or Navy will be computed from the date of detail to civil duty on the basis of the annual salary first received by him after discharge from the Army or Navy, provided that no time intervened between such discharge and his appointment in the civil service; in which event no leave will be allowed during the time he served as a member of the Army or Navy, 2. An employee who is separated from the civil service without prejudice (namely, without cause) may be given leave with pay and his name shall remain on the pay roll at the rate he is then receiving for a period equaling in money value the period of accrued leave estimated in accordance with the schedule provided in section two of Act Numbered Eighty. 3. An employee who is granted leave for vacation purposes shall be given leave with pay at the rate he is then receiving for a period equaling in money value the period of accrued leave estimated in accordance with the schedule provided in section two of Act Numbered Eighty; and he may be granted, if he so desires, such additional leave, without pay, as will give him the aggregate length of time on leave, with and without pay, as provided in the aforesaid schedule. LUKE E. Wright, ISLANDS. MANILA, P. I., January 15, 1902. EXECUTIVE ORDER Referring to section three, of Aet Numbered Two hundred and sixty-eight, which provides that the construction and repair of public buildings shall be made in accordance with plans and specifications presented by the Chief of the Bureau of Architecture under the superintendence of the Chief of the Bureau of Architeture or of an officer of the Bureau appointed for that purpose, it is hereby ordered that all lumber and other building material belonging to the Insular Government now in the possession of any Bureau, except such lumber and other building material as is purchased and held for sale to the municipal or provincial governments by the Insular Purchasing Agent. shall be transferred to the Chief of the Bureau of Architecture, and the same shall be stored by the Insular Purchasing Agent, subject to the order of the Chief of the Bureau of Architecture, together with all lumber and other building material taken from public buildings in the process of repair or destruction. Such transfer of property shall be consummated on Auditor's Form Seven hundred and seven. Subsequently the property shall be taken up by the receiving officer on his quarterly return (Auditor's Form Seven hundred) and in like manner dropped. by the invoicing officer. Lumber received by the Bureau of Architecture through the destruction of public buildings shall be taken up on Form Seven hundred, under the heading “Otherwise Received, etcetera." LUKE E. Wright, |