Statute-1895.
On
July 15th in 1895., the institute received its first
Statute.
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"enhance Dalmatian agriculture, especially those branches of production that are of grave
importance,
particularly viticulture, olive growing, farming the silk worm, by way of rigorously tested
scientific research,
chemical and microscopic
analysis... observe diseases on culture plants in Dalmatia and types of effective protection; analyze
and control
compost and fodder; popularize by way of teaching and printing the research results; educate
learned gentry
about agrochemical analysis, especially those from the field of enochemistry, give advice and
direction to
interested agriculturalists; analyze and issue documents on contents and technological correctness
of all
agricultural products."
The aforementioned goals from the Statute of 1895 give way to two basic developmental roads
to be taken
by the upcoming agricultural institute. First: it was given a task of dealing with complex
agricultural problems
with an accent on viticulture- vine production and olive growing - oil production as eminent
agricultural
branches of the Adriatic region. Second: The institute functions in three ways: experimentally,
through
analytical-control and education. These basic goals and ways of action, set up by the Statute in
1895, were
maintained in different measures and forms during a hundred years of the Institutes existence and
its work.
In regards to the institutes work through a Memo of the Kings Royal Ministry of agriculture,
dating from
22.8.1895 Z14538-2291, were issued service directions for the staff of the Kings Royal
agricultural chemical
testing Institute in Split:
I.
The jobs of the Institute are divided among those that are approved by the decision of the
Ministry of
agriculture and those decided on by the Institute in its sphere of action.
II..
Jobs that need seek the decision of the Ministry are as follows:
- 1. Complaints against the Institute;
- 2. Requests made at the institute addressed to the Ministry;
- 3. Making new or changing existing regulations regarding the service and general rules;
- 4. Doubt by the institute or those that consider that further explanation is necessary concerning
interpretation
of regulations or their appropriate application;
- 5. Exceptions from general rules of specified regulations for individual cases;
- 6. Sale of movable items when their value exceeds 50 guldens; the institute is authorized sales with
no limit
when items in question are needless;
- 7. Purchase of movable items when their value exceeds 200 guldens;
- 8. Contract agreements if they are not in accordance to the regulations set by the Institute.
- 9. Allowing a vacation of an official or service person, if the duration of the absence is more than
a months
time in a 12 month period or if the vacation is reported as a travel out of country;
- 10. Allowing an advance payment to the chief of the Institute each time it is done, and other
workers if the
advance is in the amount of a monthly pay or if the payback would consist of more than 20
unabrupted monthly
rates, or if the pay is burdened with private reclamation.
A report must be made out to the Ministry for each allowed pay advance;
- 11. Granting money awards for excellent services tied to extraordinary effort and duties above
and beyond the
call;
- 12. A one time support for vital workers that are heavily injured at their work location, if the
amount in an
individual instance exceeds 20 guldens, or for that same worker in the period of one year the
amount is over
40 guldens;
- 13. Checking and compensating travel cost of the full time employees and service persons, as well
as
supporting technical work force, day-labourers, etc;
- 14. All, and jobs in the framework of the Institute if they are not accounted for in the allowed
yearly budget,
have extra costs or if allowed exceed funds approved by the Ministry;
- 15. All jobs in which cases the Ministry has withheld the decision.
III.
The Kings Royal testing institute decides in a private
sphere of action on all subjects which in the previous paragraphs the Ministry does not make
decisions.
IV.
Unauthorized cases that are of benefit to the testing or would be inconvenienced by the delay
and
immediately need factors at their disposal, without unnecessary hold backs, the Institute is
authorized to
conduct under personal responsibility and requested to seek the Ministries decision after the fact.
- 2.
The director of the Institute is directly under the Ministry of agriculture. He must always act in
accordance
with the high decision of 15.7.1895 Statute of the Kings Royal agricultural chemical testing
institute in
Split,(R.G.B 1.LXVIII St., issued 1.9.1895.) The director is responsible for financial transactions,
inventory
(including the library) and the
institutes materials. As a rule he must keep track of the institutes incomes and debits. He reports
to the
Ministry and other branches of government, obliges correspondence to those interested; gives
expert advice
and supervises lab work, and other possible tests of precision. The aforementioned directions and
duties of the
director must be followed and acted out by the persons that are replacing him for the designated
period.
- 3.
The director must turn in to the Ministry a program of all necessary studies and experiments at
the start of
the year and no later than 15.01.
- 4.
The results of scientific studies and practical tests will be published if they are applicable in
practice, in
expert organs of the state in a generally comprehendible way.
Important cases will be reported in mentioned publications in separate forms or brochures, in
native tongue,
with advisement by the specified council for culture and expert institutions
- 5.
The director must offer seminars that are written by the Ministry with his institutes expert
educators.
- 6.
The director must orally and in written form with the help from the agriculturalist serve the
intention of the
institute.
- 7.
The directing of performed analysis and research and presented lectures paid by tax must be
handled in
accordance with regulations (# 11 of the list of regulations)
- 8.
At the end of the year the institutes director must send a detailed report on the activities of the
institute to
the ministry.
Besides that, the director must immediately turn in a report on all significant happenings, be they
personal
(staff), about inventory, other interests concerning the institute to the Ministry.
- 9.
The means by which handling of the finances and the inventory of the institute is done will be
regulated by
special instructions.
- 10.
All employees, full and part time, are subordinate to the director of the institute. The director
divides tasks
of research to persons performing analysis, of whom he is a part of, and grants honorary work
according to
availability in a most fair manner.
- 11.
From the tax for analysis, research and lecture courses, 60% goes to the state, 15% to the
director and 25%
to the person performing the analysis, or him who held the lecture course. In the tax for
microscopic research
must first be subtracted their daily expenditure from the state register, and then divide into
parts only the remaining net amount.
- 12.
The director of the institute is responsible for the accurate noting of all works done at the
institute and must
be aware that the analysis book, in which employees personally insert writing for honorary work
or other
official reasons or for general interest of performed analysis and research, is neat and manageably
kept, as
should be all other books and documents that record testings and observations. Of the samples
sent to
research, the trial sample must be kept for at least two months with the stamp of the institute on it.
- 13.
The director has a right to leave for vacation for up to ten days in cases of official or emergency
conditions,
but if his absence is prolonged more than 3 days he must immediately inform the Ministry of
agriculture. In
all other cases the director must ask for permission with the Ministry for his vacation.
- 14.
Probationers and assistants are subordinate to the director of the institute and should act on his
official
orders; important official happenings that are of their concern must be written in the official
regulations tables.
In case where probationers or assistants have to represent the director, he is called upon who is
eldest in
official rank.
Probationers and assistants may spend the time they have left of their term in scientific research,
and in that
case the inventory and materials of the institute are available to them. The same may make
requests for
performing tests, which must be considered by the expert decision of the director and then turned
in to the
Ministry.
Scientific research performed by the employees at the institute is completely the soul ownership
of those that
performed it. The publication of results of the works at the institute as a rule is decided by the
director.
In a case of difference of opinion between the institutes director and the author of a particular
work, the
ministry will render a decision.
Completed works given official orders may only be published with the approval of the Ministry.
For manual labour the director has available one full time lab worker.
In case where there is too much work to be handled and necessary is extra working force, the
director must
receive an approval from the Ministry.
- 16.
All cases not foreseen by this work guide must be given to the Ministry for consideration.