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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 68. 1898. 317 any one year to each clerk or employee: And provided further, That E¤¤¤t¤¤i¤¤ M H1- where some member of the immediate family of a clerk or employee is "°”'° °' afflicted with a contagious disease and requires the care and attendance of such employee, or where his or her presence in the Department would jeopardize the health of fe1low·clerks, and in exceptional and meritorious 08808, where a clerk or employee is personally ill, and where to limit the annual leave to thirty days in any one calendar year would work peculiar hardship, it maybe extended, in the discretion of the head of the Department, with pay, not exceeding thirty days in any Limit with my- one case or in any one calendar year. _ “This section `shall not be construed to mean that so long as a clerk fggumazzv •f*·¤¤‘ or employee is borne upon the rolls of the Department in excess of the gr 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 Depart- b£g::j;*•>¤ 0* r¤l·¤¤ ment to require monthly reports to be made to him as to the condition iupms of bureaus,` of the public business in the several bureaus or offices of his Depart- ;f_°1;;uf_';,_*{_°j*"° °* D° ment at Washington; and in each case where such reports disclose that the public business is in arrears, the head of the Department in which such arrears exist shall require, as provided herein, an extension fE¤¤¤;¤i¤¤t:f 1¤¤¤r¤ of the hours of service to such clerks or employees as may be necessary ° °°°m°°’° ` to bring up such arrears of public business. · "Hereafter it shall be the duty of the head of each Executive Depart- D0*;_?r*;_$fgu•;£ h°t:<*¤th·>§ ment, or other Government establishment at the seat of government, not rmmm. under an Executive Department, to make at the expiration of each quarter of the fiscal year a written report to the President as to the condition of the public business in his Executive Department or Government establishment, and whether any branch thereofis in arrears.” Sec. 8. That the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, p,EfjQkC(j‘,f,,*”§u,§‘d · on the first day of January in each year, or within thirty days there- Stews. ’ after, shall, on a form prescribed by the Attorney—General, make to the f,,Q1,°,§§k§u§',f§K,'§§,‘Qf Attorney-General a return, under oath, of all fees and costs collected M- by him in cases disposed of at the preceding term or terms of the court, and of all emoluments hereafter collected by him, and after deducting from such collections his compensation as provided in paragraph nine of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three (Twenty- "*·l-**·1•-°**'- second Statutes at Large, six hundred and three, six hundred and thirty-one), and the incidental expenses of his office, including clerk hire, such expenses to be certified by the Chief Justice, and audited and allowed by the proper accounting oillcers of the Treasury, shall at the time of making such returns pay any surplus that may remain into _ the Treasury of the United States: And provided further, That all (§;‘QQ§,,M,S,m_ clerks of courts of the United States shall pay over, at the times and courts to return unin the manner provided by law for other fees and emoluments, all fees “"“"‘°°“ f°°°‘ received by them for naturalization, after deducting the amount of compensation they are entitled to receive. _ Sec. 9. Hereafter it shall not be lawful to detail clerks or other em- p01Qf$_L,,v‘{f6_"’°""’· ployees, paid from general appropriations for the postal service, from any branch of said postal service. whether located at the seat of Government or elsewhere, to any of the oillces or bureaus of the Post-Office Department at lVashington. _ _ Sec. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster·Geueral ,,£‘§‘{-’,°,,,g§“‘};';°,f,f§f may cause to be destroyed, in such manner as they may deem best, the mm- _ following-described records now on file in the Office of the Auditor for ,,,£,°°$§,Y’.{{," ZQEZZZ the Post-Office Department: md- Collection orders aud acknowledgments from eighteen hundred and thirty-six to eighteen hundred and eighty. Mail messenger and special mail carrier receipts from eighteen hundred and nfty-eight to eighteen hundred and eighty-two. Receipts for drafts from eighteen hundred and forty-nine to eighteen hundred and uinety-one.