This act is construed as requiring that— 1. Each calendar month shall consist of thirty days, and the computation of salary shall be by each month separately, one-twelfth of an annual salary constituting the compensation for each month. 2. One-thirtieth of a monthly installment of salary is to be allowed for each day of service from the first to the thirtieth, inclusive. The last day of February counts as three days of service for pay purposes (two days in leap years). 3. The thirty-first day of a month enters into the computation of salary only where there is one day's absence in a nonpay status on that day—that is, absence in a nonpay status did not occur also on the thirtieth. For such absence on the thirty-first one day's pay is forfeited. In the Postal Service the computation is to be made as directed in section 4 of the act of Congress approved March 4, 1911 (36 Stat., 1339), as follows: SEC. 4. That after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, where the salary or compensation of any employee in the Postal Service is at an annual or monthly rate, the following rules shall be followed in computing the amount due: An annual salary or compensation shall be divided into twelve equal installments, one of which shall be the pay for each calendar month; and in making payment for a fractional part of any calendar month there shall be paid such proportion of one of such installments, or of the amount of the monthly salary or compensation, as the number of days in the fractional part of that month bears to the actual number of days in that month. Department circulars No. 46 of 1904, No. 67 of 1906, and No. 35 of 1914 are superseded. Approved: W. W. WARWICK, Comptroller. W. G. MOADOO, Secretary of the Treasury. FORMS OF PAY ROLLS FOR 5 AND 10 PER CENT INCREASE OF COMPENSATION. (1917. Department Circular No. 77.1 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY, Washington, May 1, 1917. To all Accounting, Disbursing, and Auditing Officers: All offices of the Government having to do with the preparation, payment, and auditing of pay rolls are informed that the increase of compensation through percentages of regular compensation au thorized by the several appropriation acts for the fiscal year 1918 should be shown upon the regular pay rolls and in form as follows: 1. Where the regular compensation is now shown upon the pay roll under a single column headed or otherwise indicating the total paid, the total compensation paid should be shown for each employee within the classes affected under three columns headed, respectively, "Regular Compensation," "Increase of Compensation," and "Total Paid." The three columns should be totaled, following the usual practice of making sheet total and a recapitulation or of carrying totals forward. 2. The increase of compensation is chargeable to an indefinite appropriation which will be given the title "Increase of Compensation," followed by the name of the Department or other Government Establishment. This appropriation title, with the total amount with which it is chargeable, should be placed upon the pay roll immediately under the appropriation chargeable with the regular compensation, the amount chargeable under the regular appropriation to be shown as heretofore. 3. The submission to this office for approval of forms of pay rolls, making the changes herein prescribed to provide for the increase of compensation, is not required. 4. Where payments are made on individual vouchers, increase of compensation will be stated thereon as a separate item from the regular compensation and be included in the total of the voucher, the respective appropriations chargeable to be stated as directed in paragraph 2 hereof. The 5 or 10 per cent increase may be shown on individual vouchers by writing, printing, or stamping "Increase compensation at - %," or similar wording. 5. A greater number of the acts authorizing the increase of compensation require administrative reports thereon to be made to Congress, and it is believed that by following the methods herein prescribed the pay rolls will present most of the data needed in a form that will make unnecessary the keeping of some separate accounts with respect thereto. 6. This circular does not apply to accounts relating to the postal revenues and expenditures therefrom. 7. It is requested that questions requiring the decision of this office as to the applicability to particular employees or classes of employees, etc., of the provisions for increase of compensation be submitted promptly by the Departments and Establishments concerned, and prior to May 15, 1917, where practicable, in order that as many questions as possible may be decided prior to July 1, 1917. W. W. WARWICK, Approved: W. G. MCADOO, Secretary of the Treasury. Comptroller. Absence: GENERAL INDEX. A. Due to misconduct- Page. Marine Corps, injury caused by, stoppage of pay for resulting absence 296 Navy, injury caused by, stoppage of pay for resulting absence under act of August 29, 1916... 296 Leaves of. (See Leaves of absence.) Without leave, Coast Guard, maximum punishment for.... 63 Abstracts of title: Purchase of, by War Department- For land intended to be purchased, though afterwards condemned.... Appropriation warrants, transfer, when issue of, by Secretary of Treasury Credit, personal, given on counter warrants.............. Collections, as damages to land before final acquisition of, by United 252, 271 175 528 Deposits, of internal-revenue receipts, to be made daily, including sums 285 Disbursements from general balances, Engineer Department, Army.. 622 574 Engineer Department, Army, disbursements from general balances.. 622 119 Fines collected by collectors of customs, under act of July 16, 1892, as 448 Funds donated to Indians in re roadway on Indian reservation not to be 48 Miscellaneous receipts- Estimated value of public property transferred from one department 175 477 Withdrawal of money erroneously covered into Treasury as, on revision of erroneous settlement by auditor... 175 Ordnance appropriations, charging to, value of material used from stock at Accounting-Continued. Property, questions in re custody or possession of public property are gen- Part of penalty of bond, after payment of entire penalty, not authorized Services by one department for another, appropriation chargeable. Purpose of..... Reimbursement from, of regular appropriations, in re services or pur- Transfer appropriation warrants. (See same title, subhead, Warrants.) Appropriation, transfer, when issue of, by Secretary of the Treasury, Accounting officers: Administrative approval of claims for traveling expenses (cab hire), not Page. 175 609 620 119 252 435 435 252, 271 175 302 Auditor for State and Other Departments, has jurisdiction in re post entry 597 Auditors Auditor for War Department, jurisdiction of, in re claims of civilians 217 Certification of claims by, for deficiency appropriations, when author- 275 Construction of statutes by- Have jurisdiction to submit, as to jurisdiction to settle accounts 448 Should be in clear and definite terms.. 430 Disallowances, not authorized to make in disbursing officers' accounts 453 Releases by contractors, directing warrants to be sent to administrative 611 Set-off- Claims sounding in tort, whether may be subject of, by...................... Reconsideration of when claim for additional sum constitutes, and 133 Should be made on evidence before them, without suggesting that 20 252 |