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Statute from 1895
On July 15th in 1895., the institute received its first Statute:
"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
1. 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.
15. All cases not foreseen by this work guide must be given
to the Ministry for consideration.
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