The Need for a National Budget: Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Report of the Commission on Economy and Efficiency on the Subject of the Need for a National Budget

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 568 páginas

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Página 404 - No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized by law or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment, except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters, or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year.
Página 71 - No executive department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations, unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Página 423 - States providing for taxes on business and trade, or to the act entitled " an act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes...
Página 422 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Página 68 - Disbursing officers, or the head of any executive department, or other establishment not under any of the executive departments, may apply for and the Comptroller...
Página 385 - All appropriations made for contingent expenses or other general purposes, except appropriations made in fulfillment of contract obligations expressly authorized by law, or for objects required or authorized by law without reference to the amounts annually appropriated therefor...
Página iii - No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
Página 63 - Except as otherwise provided by law, 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 TITLE 31.— MONET AND FINANCE Ch.ll properly made within that year; and balances not needed for such purposes shall be carried to the surplus fund.
Página 383 - It shall be the duty of the heads of the several Executive Departments...
Página 404 - House of Representatives; and in case said apportionments are waived or modified as herein provided, the same shall be waived or modified in writing by the head of such executive department or other Government establishment having control of...

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