Volume 53
Public Law 76–103
To amend the Act approved April 27, 1937, entitled “An Act to simplify accounting.”
Approved April 26, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act approved April 27, 1937, entitled “An Act to simplify accounting.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act
Simplification of accounting.
31 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 668a.
Payments for metered services.
approved April 27, 1937 (Public, Numbered 57), is amended to read as follows:
“Hereafter, in making payments for commodities or services the quantity of which is determined by metered readings, such as gas, electricity, water, steam, and the like, and for telephone services, where the period covered by the charge begins in one fiscal year or allotment period and ends in another, the entire amount of the payment may be regarded as a charge against the appropriation or allotment current at the end of such period.”
Approved, April 26, 1939.