Chapter 193. Extending appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia and for the payment of pensions under certain contingencies
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CHAP. 193.— An Act Extending appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia and for the payment of pensions under certain contingencies. June 30, 1916. [[H. R. 16677](/us/bill/64/hr/16677).] [[Public, No. 122](/us/pl/64/122)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Appropriations for last fiscal year extended through July If not previously provided for.*Post, *p. 431.
That all appropriations for the necessary 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, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are continued and made available for and during the month of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen, unless the regular appropriations provided therefor in bills now pending in Congress shall have been previously made for the service of the fiscal243 year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; and a sufficient amount is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry on the same: *Provided,* That no*Provisos.*Proportionate amounts. greater amount shall be expended for such operations than as the sum of one-twelfth of the appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen bears to the whole of the appropriations of said fiscal year: *Provided further,* That the total expenditures forTotal expenditures for the year not to exceed final appropriations. the whole of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen under the several appropriations hereby continued, and under the several appropriation bills now pending, shall not exceed in the aggregate the amounts finally appropriated therefor in the several bills now pending, except in cases where a change is made in the annual,Exceptions. monthly, or per diem compensation or in the numbers of officers, clerks, or other persons authorized to be employed by the several appropriations hereby continued, in which cases the amounts authorized to be. expended shall equal one-twelfth of the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and eleven-twelfths 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 diminished without changing the grade or the duties thereof, in which case such salary or compensation shall relate to the entire fiscal year and run from the beginning thereof: *And provided further,* That the session employees of the Sen-ateCongressional session employees continued. and House of Representatives now authorized by law shall be continued upon the rolls until the end of the present session of Congress and paid at the rate per diem or month at which they are now paid; and a sufficient amount is appropriated, out of any money inAppropriation. the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the same Approved, June 30, 1916.