Public Law 81–290

there are hereby

Temporary appropriation, 1950.

Post, pp. 485, 614, 696.

appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, such amounts as may be necessary to permit departments, agencies, corporations, or other organizational units in any branch of the Government for which appropriations, funds, or other authority (including limitations, restrictions, or permissive provisions) would be made available for use or application in the fiscal year 1950 by any appropriation Act (such Act not being law on July 1, 1949), to carry out their projects or activities until the approval of the applicable appropriation Act, to the extent and in the manner which would be provided for in appropriations, funds, or other authority granted by such Act: Provided, That in any case where the amount to be made available or the authority to be granted under any such Act as passed by the House of Representatives is different from the amount to be made available or the authority to be granted under such Act as passed by the Senate, the pertinent project or activity shall be carried out under whichever amount is lesser or whichever authority is more restrictive: Provided further, That in any case where an item is included in an appropriation Act which has been passed by only one House, or where an item is included in only one version of an Act passed by both Houses, for a project or activity for which funds were provided by Congress for the fiscal year 1949, such project or activity shall be carried on under the appropriation, funds, or authority granted by the one House, but in no event at a rate higher than that provided for the fiscal year 1949.

There are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, such amounts as may be necessary to permit departments, agencies, corporations, or other organizational units in any branch of the Government to carry out projects or activities for which funds were provided by Congress for the fiscal year 1949, and for which a Budget estimate for the fiscal year 1950 was transmitted to the Congress prior to July 1, 1949, but for which no provision is contained in any bill pending in Congress on July 1, 1949, at the rate provided for under any corresponding appropriation for the fiscal year 1949 or the Budget estimate for 1950, whichever is smaller; except that in the case of activities (other than those of the Treasury Department) transferred to the General Services Administration by H. R. 4754 (Eighty-first Congress) when enacted into law, there are

Ante, p. 377.

hereby appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out such activities to the extent and in the manner which would be provided for in Budget estimates transmitted to the Congress for the fiscal year 1950.

Appropriations and funds made available, and authority

Availability of appropriations.

granted, pursuant to this joint resolution shall be determined under the terms hereof by reference to the status of the pertinent appropriation Acts and Budget estimates on July 1, 1949, and shall continue to be available in the amount and in the manner so determined until (1) enactment into law of the applicable appropriation Act, or (2) the date both Houses shall have acted and failed to make an appropriation, or (3) July 31, 1949, whichever first occurs.

Post, pp. 485, 614, 696.

Expenditures from appropriations or funds made available pursuant to this joint resolution shall be charged to any applicable appropriation or fund when the bill in which it is contained is enacted into law.