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 1210 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. III. Cu. 276. 1931 .' Statutory leave may " SEC . 22. That the Secretary of State is authorized, whenever he be ordered after three years' service abroad . deems it to be in the public interest, to order to the United States on his statutory leave of absence any Foreign Service officer or vice consul of career who has performed three years or more of con- Provisos. Transportation tinuous service abroad : Provided, That the expenses of transportation all owed off icers and and s ubsistence of such officers and their im mediate famil ies, in famines. traveling from their posts to their homes in the United States and return, shall be paid under the same rules and regulations applicable in the case of officers going to and returning from their posts under orders of the Secretary of State when not on leave
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further, That while in the United States the services of such officers shall be available for trade conference work or for such duties in 'the Department of State as the Secretary of State may prescribe, but the time of such work or duties shall not be counted as leave. with " The Secretary of State is authorized, in his discretion and subject to su ch regulation s as may be is sued by the P resident to g rant to any officer or employee of the Foreign Service not to exceed sixty etc ., days annual leave of absence with pay . If such officer or employee returns to the United States, the leave of absence granted under the provisions of this section shall be exclusive of the time actually and necessarily occupied in going to and from the United States, and such time as may be necessarily occupied in awaiting sailing . Any portion of sixty days annual leave not granted or availed of in any one year may be cumulative, n ot to exceed e xclusive of t ime in transit and awaiting sailing, one hundred and twenty days in three years or one hundred and eighty days in four years : Prov ided furthe r, That employees, not American citizens, may be granted not to exceed thirty days leave of absence with pay in any one year. "The Secretary of State is also authorized to grant to any officer or employee of the Foreign Service on account of personal illness or on acccount of exposure to a contagious disease which would render presence at a post of duty hazardous to the health of fellow employees, sick leave of absence with pay at the rate of fifteen days a year, the unused portion of such sick leave to be cumulative not to exceed one hundred and twenty days : Provided, That during the first year of operation of this act not to exceed thirty days of additional sick leave of absence with pay may be granted . " No Foreign Service officer shall be absent from his post with pay for more than forty-eight hours without permission, except as pro- vided herein. " Section 1742 of the Revised Statutes is hereby repealed . "SEC. 23 . That the part of the Act of July 1, 1916 (Public, Num- bered 131), which authorizes the President to designate and assign any secretary of class 1 as counselor of embassy or legation, is hereby amended to read as follows "' Provided, That the President may, whenever he considers it advi sabl e so to do, desi gnat e an d as sign any For eign Ser vice off icer as counselor of embassy or legation .' " SEC. 24 . That within the discretion of the President, any Foreign Service officer may be assigned to act as commissioner, charge d'affaires, minister resident, or diplomatic agent for such period as the public i nterests may require witho ut loss of gra de, class, or salary : Provided, however, That no such officer shall receive more than one salary. " SEC. 25 . That for such times as any Foreign Service officer shall be lawfully authorized to act as charge d'affaires ad interim or to assume charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer at the post to which he shall have been assigned, he shall, if his salary is less than one-half that of such Duties may be pre- sc rib ed . Annual leave pay. Sailing time, excluded . Cumulative leave . Pr ovi so . Leave of employees, not Amer ican citi zens . Sick leave of absence . Cumulat ive sick leav e. Proviso . Restriction . Salary when absent from post. R. S., see. 1742, re- pealed . Counselors of embas- sies and legations . Vol . 39, p. 2 52, amended . Designation of For- eign Service officers as . Temporary appoint- ments for specified du- ties . Proviso. Salary restriction. Pay of officer acting as ch arge d'af faire s ad interim or in charge of a consulate.

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