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EEV. ST. SEC. 3683. 



Restrictions on purchases from contingent funds. 



Sec. o(i83. No part of the contingent fund appropriated to any 

 Department, Bureau, or office, shall be applied to the purchase of 

 any articles except such as the head of the Department shall deem 

 necessary and proper to carry on the business of the Department, 

 Bureau, or office, and shall, by written order, direct to be procured. 



ACT MARCH 15, 1898, c. 68. (30 Stat. 277.) 



Restrictions on purchases of law books, etc., from appropriations for contingeut 

 expenses, etc. 



Sec. 3. That hereafter law books, books of reference, and period- 

 icals for use of any Executive Department, or other Government 

 establishment not under an Executive Department, at the seat of 

 Government, shall not be purchased or paid for from any appropria- 

 tion made for contingent expenses or for any specific or general pur- 

 pose unless such purchase is authorized and payment therefor spe- 

 cifically provided in the law granting the appropriation. 



Act March 15. 1898, c. 68, s. 3, 30 Stat. 316. 



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

 priation act for the fiscal year 1899, cited above. 



EEV. ST. SEC. 3690. 



Expenditure of balances of appropriations. 



Sec. 3690. All balances of appropriations contained in the annual 

 appropriation bills and made specifically for the service of any fiscal 

 year, and remaining unexpended at the expiration of such fiscal year, 

 shall only be applied to the payment of expenses properly incurred 

 during that year, or to the fulfillment of contracts properly made 

 within that year; and balances not needed for such purposes shall 

 be carried to the surplus fund. This section, however, shall not 

 apply to appropriations known as permanent or indefinite appro- 

 priations. 



ACT JUNE 23, 1874, c. 476. (18 Stat. 275.) 



Appropriations for public buildings available until completion of work. 



* * * That all moneys heretofore appropriated for the con- 

 struction of public buildings and now remaining to the credit of 

 the same on the books of the Treasury Department, or which may 

 hereafter be appropriated for such buildings, shall remain available 

 until the completion of the work for which they are, or may be, 

 appropriated ; and upon the final completion of each or any of said 

 buildings, and the payment of all outstanding liabilities therefor, the 

 balance or balances remaining shall be immediately covered into the 

 Treasury. 



Act June 23, 1874, c. 47G, s. 1, 18 Stat. 275. 



EEV. ST. SEC. 3691. 



Disposal of balances of appropriations after two years. 



Sec. 3691. All balances of appropriations which shall have re- 

 mained on the books of the Treasury, without being drawn against 

 in the settlement of accounts, for two years from the date of the last 

 appropriation made by law, shall be reported by the Secretary of 



