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iures in one portion of tlio yinir which may necessitate deficiency or 

 idditional appro|)riations to complete the service of the fiscal year for 

 which said appropriations arc ma(le; and all such apportionments 

 -hall be adhered to and shall not be waived or modified except upon 

 ihe happening of some extraordinary emergency or unusual circum- 

 -tance which could not be anticipated at the time of making such 

 apportionment, but this provision shall not apply to the contingent 

 appropriations of the Senate or House of Representatives; and in 

 ( ase said apportionments are waived or modified as herein provided, 

 the same shall be waived or modified in writing by the head of such 

 P^xecutive I)ei)artment or other Government establishment having 

 control of the expenditure, and the reasons therefor shall be fully set 

 forth in each particular case and communicated to Congress in con- 

 nection with estimates for any additional appropriations required on 

 ticcount thereof. Any person violating any provision of this section 

 shall be summarily removed from office and may also be punished by 

 ;i fine of not less thaw one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for 

 not less than one month. 



Rev. St. sec. 3079. :is jiniendod by .ift Man-li .*;, 100.^, c. 1481, s. 4, .33 Stat. 

 1257, and act February 27. 1006. c. 510, s. 4. 34 Stat. 48. 



A similar provision relating to the acceptance of voluntary .service, 

 contained in act May 1. 1SS4, c. .'i7. is .-Jet forth on p. 279, ante, under 

 •■ Officers. Clerks, and Employees." 



ACT AUGUST 23, 1912, c. 350. (37 Stat. 360.) 



Maximum amounts to be expended from contingent funds appropiiated, to be 

 apportioned; purchases which can be made from contingent funds not to 

 be made from any other fund. 



Sec. 6. That in addition to the apportionment required by the so- 

 called antideficiency Act, approved February twenty-seventh, nine- 

 teen hundred and six (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-four, page 

 forty-nine), the head of each executive department shall, on or before 

 the beginning of each fiscal year, apportion to each office or bureau 

 of his department the maximum amount to be expended therefor 

 during the fiscal year out of the contingent fund or funds appro- 

 priated for the entire j'^ear for the department, and the amounts so ap- 

 portioned shall not be increased or diminished during the year for 

 which made except upon the writtefi direction of the head of the de- 

 partment, in which there shall be fully expressed his reasons therefor; 

 and he'-eafter there shall not be purchased out of any other fund any 

 article for use in any office or bureau of any executive department in 

 Washington. District of Columbia, which could be purchased out of 

 the appropriation--: made for the regular contingent funds of such de- 

 partment or of its offices or bureaus. 



Act August 23, 1912, e. 350, s. 6, o7 Stjit. 414. 



This section is a part of the legislative, executive, and judicial appro- 

 priation act for the fiscal year 1913. cited above. 



The aitportionnient required by act February 27, liiOC. c. .510, s. 4, is set 

 forth above. 



ACT AUGUST 24. 1912, c. 355. (37 Stat. 417.) 



No specific or indefinite appropriation to be construed as permanent unless in 

 terms expressly so providing 



Sec. T. No specific or indefinite appropriation made hereafter in 

 any regidar annual appropriation Act shall be construed to be per- 



