Section 2
SEC. 2. The head of any department or office may grant leave of absence with pay during a calendar year to each employee, exclusive of Sundays and days declared public holidays by law or executive order, in accordance with the following schedule: An employee receiving an annual salary of less than six hundred dollars shall be granted fifteen days' leave; an employee receiving an annual salary of six hundred dollars or more, but less than one thousand dollars, shall be granted twenty days' leave; an employee receiving an annual salary of one thousand dollars or more, but less than one thousand eight hundred dollars, shall be granted thirty days' leave; an employee receiving an annual salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars or more shall he granted thirty-five days' leave; an employee elects in any one year to postpone any or all of the leave to which he is entitled under this section, such leave shall accumulate, and in case he is granted leave for the purpose of visiting the United States he shall be allowed with half pay in addition to his leave, the actual and necessary time occupied by him in going to and returning from San Francisco: Provided, That such leave to visit the United States under these conditions shall not be granted to any employee more than once in three years, or to any employee who has not accumulated to his credit leave allowed for two full wars. The provisions of this section shall be retroactive in effect so as to entitle employees of the civil service in the Philippine Islands whether serving as such by regular appointment or by detail from the Army or Navy of the United States, previous to this Act to any accumulated leave to which they would have been entitled had this Act been in effect at the date of their employment or detail.