5 IV. Forms of pay rolls for retirement deductions.-The following Treasury Department circular is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: FORMS OF PAY ROLLS FOR RETIREMENT DEDUCTIONS. 1920. Department Circular No. 196. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY, To all accounting, disbursing, and auditing officers: The act of May 22, 1920 (41 Stat., 614), for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, directs the withholding from the basic salary, pay, or compensation of each employee to whom the act applies of a sum equal to 24 per centum of such employee's basic salary, pay, or compensation. This becomes effective on the 1st day of the third month next following the passage of the act. It is accordingly directed that on all pay rolls and individual vouchers paying salary, pay, or compensation earned after July 31, 1920, no more than 97 per centum of the basic salary, pay, or compensation be paid to the employees to whom the act applies, and for the purpose of showing such payment the heading of the pay roll column “Amount paid " is hereby directed to be changed to “Amount paid less 24 per centum base pay retirement deduction." This change of the pay roll is authorized to be made without submission of forms to this office for approval. Special forms of pay rolls will be authorized by this office upon application if it be found they are needed in particular cases involving other than the usual methods of fixing wages or salaries. Those employees not within the act of May 22, 1920, should be paid on old forms of pay rolls as heretofore, or if paid on a new form as herein authorized a notation should be made in the "Remarks" column of "not within act of May 22, 1920.” Individual pay vouchers should make the same showing as herein prescribed for pay rolls. Absences without pay do not involve retirement deductions. The enactment specifically imposes upon the Secretary of the Treasury the duty of transferring retirement deductions from appropriations to the civil-service retirement and disability fund, and no disbursing officer is authorized to withdraw such deductions from the appropriations. The enactment specifically directs that the payment of all annuities, refunds, and allowances shall be made by the dis 6 bursing clerk for the payment of pensions, and no other disbursing officer is authorized to make such payments. BULLETIN No. 33. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, July 21, 1920. Section. I II Discontinuance of certain units of the Reserve Officers' Training Electric time service- Embossing of letterheads and envelopes for bureaus, etc., under the War Department---‒‒‒‒‒ Signature to certificate accompanying applications for annuity under the civil-service retirement act---. III IV I__Discontinuance of certain units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.-The authority for the establishment of Infantry units of the junior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in each of the following-named institutions granted in the bulletin referred to after the respective names, is withdrawn: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa., authority granted in Bulletin No. 2, War Department, 1919. Louisiana Industrial Institute, Ruston, La., authority granted in paragraph 2, section IV, Bulletin No. 43, War Department, 1919. [000.862, A. G. O.] II__Electric time service.-Section III, Bulletin No. 18, War Department, 1920, is amended by adding thereto the following: Where the needs of the service require such installation, one electric time clock will be installed in post headquarters or at such other point as the commanding officer may designate, provided such installation can be made at a reasonable cost. At outlying posts or other activities of the Army, which are remote from telegraph companies, the Signal Corps will, where practicable, install such radio apparatus which will permit of the taking of time service from the Arlington Radio Station, Arlington, Va. [483.3, A. G. O.] III__Embossing of letterheads and envelopes for bureaus, etc., under the War Department.-The following War Department circular is published to the Army for the information and guidance of all concerned: CIRCULAR: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 22, 1920. 1. The following extract from letter of the Chairman, Joint Committee on Printing, Congress of the United States, to the 3387°-20 |