Volume 50 · 469

Public Law 75–424

Making appropriations for the first half of the month of July 1937, for certain operations of the Federal Government which remain unprovided for on July 1, 1937, through the failure of enactment of the supply bills customarily providing for such operations.

Approved July 1, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That for defraying during the first half of the month of July 1937 all expenses of the necessary operations of the Federal Government, which, on July 1, 1937, remain unprovided with appropriations through the failure of enactment on or before such date of the supply bills customarily providing for such operations, there are hereby extended for and during such period all appropriations available for obligation for such expenses during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, in the same detail and under the same conditions, restrictions, and limitations as such appropriations were provided for on account of such fiscal year.

Sec. 2.

To make effective the appropriations extended by section 1, there are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of certain revenues, receipts, and funds, respectively, as such appropriations available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, were appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for such first half of the month of July 1937.

Sec. 3.

No greater amount shall be expended out of any appropriation provided by this Act than an amount equal to one twenty-fourth of the appropriation available for like purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937.

Sec. 4.

The total expenditures for the entire fiscal year ending

Total expenditures not to exceed in aggregate sums Anally appropriated.

June 30, 1938, out of the appropriations made by this Act and the appropriations in the several pending supply bills shall not exceed in the aggregate the amounts finally appropriated, respectively, in such pending supply bills when they shall have been enacted into law.

Sec. 5.

This Act shall not be construed as authorizing the duplication

Duplications, etc., restricted.

of any special expenditure or providing for the execution of any purpose which was intended to be accomplished only once or done, solely for or during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937.

Sec. 6.

This Act shall not apply to any expenses or operations

Not to apply to operations already provided for.

of the Federal Government the annual appropriations for which for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, have been made on or before July 1, 1937.

On such date or dates subsequently to July 1, 1937, as the

Available only until pending supply bills become law.

several pending supply bills shall, respectively, become law, the appropriations made by this Act and applicable to the expenses of operation covered by such pending supply bills shall no longer be available for obligation.

Any appropriations in this Act for such first half of the

Availability of appropriations.

month of July 1937 for any expense of operation for which an appropriation is proposed in, but not finally made by any of, such pending supply bills when the same shall have become law shall cease to be available for obligation on the date upon which the supply bill in which such appropriation was proposed becomes a law; and any expenditure under any such appropriation in this Act shall not be included in computing the total of expenditures under section 4 hereof.

Sec. 7.

The terms “supply bill” and “supply bills”, when used in

Terms defined.

this Act, mean one or more of the regular appropriation bills customarily enacted annually, and for the purposes of this Act title II of the War Department Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1937 shall be deemed such a supply bill.

Sec. 8.

This Act may be cited as the “Extension of Appropriations

Short title.

Act, 1938”.

Approved, July 1, 1937.