Volume 4 · 558
Public Law 22–CLIV
to authorize the President of the United States to direct transfers of appropriations in the naval service, under certain circumstances.
Approved July 3, 1832
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the President of the United States to direct transfers of appropriations in the naval service, under certain circumstances.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That upon the application of the Secretary of the Navy, the President of the United States shall have authority, whenever in his opinion the unforeseen contingencies of the public service may require it, to direct that a part of the money appropriated for a particular branch of the naval service be applied to another
Special accounts of the moneys transferred, and of their application, to be laid before Congress.
branch of the said service; in which case, a special account of the moneys thus transferred, and of their application, shall be laid before Congress before its adjournment, if then in session, and during the first week of the next ensuing session, if such transfer be made in the recess of Congress.
This act shall continue in force until the close of the next session of Congress and no longer.
Approved, .