It will be seen that these are very liberal allowances. An employee
receiving $1200 at the end of two years of service may spend eight
weeks of vacation leave visiting Japan or other surrounding countries,
and at the end of an additional year's service he may visit his home
in the United States with six and a third months' absence on full and
half pay and with his expenses from his home to Manila payable two
years after his return, and during every three years of his service
he may have the same privileges.

The law also provides that if an employee is wounded or injured in
the performance of duty, he may have a total of six months' leave on
full pay in addition to any accrued leave to his credit.

Employees who have rendered satisfactory service and resign after
three or more years receive in a lump sum all accrued leave due and
thirty days' half salary. For example, an employee who has received
$1800 per annum and has served five years without taking any leave
in excess of the four weeks' vacation leave allowable annually would
draw $1025 were he to resign.

The school sessions amount to forty weeks per annum and the school
vacations to twelve weeks per annum. [491] Teachers receive an annual
salary and draw full pay during vacations as well as during school
sessions. Every third year they are allowed to visit the United States
or foreign countries with an allowance of sixty days' half-pay travel
time in addition to the ten weeks' long vacation, and on completing
two years of service after return to the islands they are entitled to
their travelling expenses from place of residence in the United States
to Manila or from port of embarkation in a foreign country to Manila.

It is interesting to compare these provisions with the regulations
governing leave of absence in the British colonial service:--

(1) There is no distinction between sick leave and ordinary leave,
the leave of absence on account of sickness being charged against
the ordinary leave allowable.

(2) There are two classes of leave: vacation leave on full pay and
half-pay leave.

(3) The vacation leave amounts to three months every two years,
and must be taken during the two years, as it does not accumulate.

(4) The half-pay leave amounts to two months for each year of service,
but cannot be taken until after a period of six years' resident service
in the Colony, except in cases of serious indisposition supported by
medical certificate, or of "