Chapter 140.
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CHAP. 140.— Joint Resolution Making appropriations for certain necessary operations of the Government and of the District of Columbia for the months of July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes. July 8, 1918.[[H. J. Res. 311](/us/bill/65/hjres/311).][[Pub. Res., No. 36](/us/bill/pubres/65/36).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the necessary operations Appropriations of last fiscal year for Army, Department of Agriculture, and District of Columbia continued for July and August, 1918.*Post*, pp. 957, 1008, 1019.of the Government, so far as they relate to the support of the Army and the Department of Agriculture, including food production operations heretofore provided for by law, and of the District of Columbia, as they were being carried on at the close of the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, are hereby authorized to be continued notwithstanding that appropriations therefor for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, or any part of such fiscal year, have not been made by law, and there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount sufficient to carry on such necessary operations during the months of July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as the same were carried on during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, and including also those operations now 844 authorized by law and not carried on prior to July first, nineteen *Provisos*.
District of Columbia, half from revenues thereof.hundred and eighteen: *Provided*, That expenditures for the District of Columbia shall be paid one-half from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from the Treasury of the United States: *Provided Proportionate amounts only to be expended.further*, That no greater amount shall be expended during either the New operations.months of July or August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, than an amount equal to one-twelfth of the amount of any appropriations available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, excepting that the rate of expenditure for the month of July, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or for the month of June, nineteen hundred and eighteen, if either be greater than such one-twelfth, may be continued during the months of July or August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and where necessary operations have been or may be authorized by law without having been carried on prior to the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen, there may be expended during the months of July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, only so much as may be necessary adequately to carry on the operations so authorized: *And provided Available only until regular appropriations made.also*, That the appropriation made by this resolution for any necessary operation shall not be available beyond the date when other appropriations hereafter are made therefor and the amount which may be expended hereunder shall be in lieu of an equal amount of an appropriation for the same purposes, if there be one hereafter made, it being the purpose of this resolution that an appropriation hereafter made, for any operation for the current fiscal year, shall not be in addition to the appropriation herein made but shall be considered as the sole appropriation so that any amount expended hereunder shall be treated as an expenditure under such appropriation for the current fiscal year.
Existing salaries continued until regularly provided for.This joint resolution shall be construed as authorizing salaries and compensation for officers, clerks, and other employees holding offices or employment for which specific salaries or compensation were appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, to continue during July and August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to be paid at the same rate while lawfully holding such offices or employment until the appropriations therefor have been made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and thereafter to be paid only at the rate provided in said appropriations.
Availability of appropriations made since June 30, 1918.Appropriations for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen made in Acts approved since June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall be available for all purposes therein provided for from and including the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and all obligations incurred pursuant to the terms of said Acts as approved are ratified and confirmed from and including the said first day of July.
Approved, July 8, 1918.