XXXVI ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



Bureau of Engraving' and Printing, which shall continue to be advertised 

 for and purchased as now provided by law, on the same days, and shall 

 each designate two o'clock past meridian of such days for the opening of 

 all such proposals in each Department and other Government establish- 

 ment in the city of Washington; and the ►Secretary of the Treasury 

 shall designate the day or days in each year for the opening of such 

 proposals and give due notice thereof to the other Departments and 

 Government establishments. Such proposals shall be opened in the 

 usual way and schedules thereof duly prepared and, together with the 

 statement of the proposed action of each Department and Government 

 establishment thereon, shall be submitted to a board, consisting of one 

 of the Asssistant Secretaries of the Treasury and Interior Departments 

 and one of the Assistant Postmasters General, who shall be designated 

 by the heads of said Departments and the Postmaster-General, respec- 

 tively, at a meeting to be called by the official of the Treasury Depart- 

 ment, who shall be chairman thereof; and said board shall carefully 

 examine and compare all the jn'oposals so submitted and recommend 

 the acceptance or rejection of any or all of said proposals. And if any 

 or all of such proposals shall be re)ect(*d, advertisements for iiroposals 

 shall again be invited and proceeded with in the same manner. Ap- 

 proved January 27, 1894. (Second session Fifty-third Congress ; United 

 States Statutes at Large, ^ol. 28, p. 33.) 



JOINT EESOI.UTION TO PROVIDE TEMPORABILY FOR THE EXPENDI- 

 TURES OF THE GOVERNMENT. 



Resolved hy the Senate and House of liejyrcsentativcs of the Vnited States 

 of America in Congress assembled, That all ai)pro])riations for the neces- 

 sary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia and 

 for the payment of pensions, under existing laws, which shall remain 

 unprovided for on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-four, be, and they are hereby, continued and made available for 

 a period of thirty days from and after that date, unless the regular 

 appropriations provided therefor in bills now pending in Congress shall 

 have been previously made for the service of the fiscal year ending June 

 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; and a sufficient amount is 

 hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 

 api)ropriated, to carry on the same: Provided, That no greater amount 

 shall be exj)ended for such operations than will be in the same propor- 

 tion to the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-four as thirty days' time bears to the whole of said year: Pro- 

 vided further, That the total expenditures for the whole of the fiscal 

 year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, under the several appropria- 

 tions hereby continued, and under the several appropriation bills now 

 pending, shall not ex(;eed in the aggregate the amounts finally appro- 

 priated therefor in the several bills now pending, except in cases where 

 a change is made in the annual, monthly, or per diem compensation, 

 or in the number of officers, clerks, or other persons authorized to be 

 em])loyed by the several appropriations hereby continued, in which 

 cases the amounts authorized to be expended shall equal thirty-three 

 hundred and sixty-fifths of the ai^propriations for the fiscal year eight- 

 een hundred and ninety-four, and three hundred and thirty-five three 

 hundred and sixty-fifths of the appropriations- contained in the several 

 bills now pending, when the same shall have been finally passed, unless 

 the salary or compensation of any office shall be increased or dimin- 

 ished without changing the grade or the duties thereof, in which case 

 such salary or compensation shall relate to the entire fiscal year and 



