§ MR. CLAUDE HAYTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury if, in consideration of the amount of overtime duty performed in connection with the increase of work occasioned by the coal and sugar duties and the preparation of the annual statement of trade, and in view of the fact that Second Division and Port clerks in the Customs receive an additional seven days annual leave after live years service, he will consider an increase of the amount of annual leave granted to the senior clerks in the Customs Statistical Office.
(Answer.) Senior clerics in the Statistical Office under standing regulations (General Order 10/1899) are entitled to thirty-six days leave contingent on their giving seven hours daily attendance. It is not considered necessary to increase this amount.—(Treasury.)