EXECUTIVE ORDER.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
EXECUTIVE ORDER.
WASHINGTON, _March 31, 1871_.
The act of June 15, 1852, section 1 (10 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 10),
provides:
That whenever any officer of either of the Territories of the United
States shall be absent therefrom and from the duties of his office no
salary shall be paid him during the year in which such absence shall
occur, unless good cause therefor shall be shown to the President of
the United States, who shall officially certify his opinion of such
cause to the proper accounting officer of the Treasury, to be filed
in his office.
It has been the practice under this law for the Territorial officers who
have desired to be absent from their respective Territories to apply for
leaves to the head of the proper Department at Washington, and when such
leave has been given the required certificate of the President has been
granted as a matter of course.
The unusual number of applications for leave of absence which have
been lately made by Territorial officers has induced the President to
announce that he expects the gentlemen who hold those offices to stay in
their respective Territories and to attend strictly to their official
duties.
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