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 F1FTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sicss. I. CHS. 510, 511. 1906. 49 "Sec. 367 9. No Executive De artment or other Government estab- _EXP°“di°“'°*2“%°x‘ lishment of the United States shgll expend, in any one fiscal year, any t<$;bi?;d!;i)1?mp¤ationS sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that Hscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law. Nor shall any Depart- Voluntary service. ment or any officer of the Government accept voluntary service for the Government or employ personal service in excess oi that authorized by law, except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of roperty. All appropriations Aiigtrgems In we made for contingent expenses or other general purposes, except rm e mucus' appropriations made in fulfillment of contract obligations expressly ‘ authorized by law, or for objects required or authorized by law without reference to the amounts annually appropriated therefor, shall, on or before the beginning of each tiscal year, be so apportioned by monthly or other allotments as to prevent expenditures in one portion of the year which may necessitate deficiency or additional appropriations to complete the service of the fiscal year for which said appropriations are made; and all such a portionments E¤$=¤v¢i¤¤¤i¤¤¤¤¤¤ shall be adhered to and shall not be waived or modined) except upon gmc1w` the happening of some extraordinary emergency or unusual circumstance which could not be anticipated at the time of making such apportionment, but this provision shall not apply to the contingent C(}lr;jr>;•gy¤¤¤¤¤¤ for appropriations of the Senate or House of Representatives; and in case wmm umm resaid apportionments are waived or modified as herein provided, the “““°d‘ same shall be waived or modified in writing by the head of such Executive Department 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 connection with estimates for any additional appropriations required on account thereof. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be _Peualty` for violasummarily removed fromoffice and may also be punished by a fine of tw"' not less than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than one month." Approved, February 27, 1906. CHAP. 51 1 .—-An Act To validate certain certificates of soldiers' additional home- March 8. 1906. stead mgm. ‘ d _§j*f*j_“, Public, No. 29. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatv}ves of the United [ 1 States of America in Cbngress assembled, That the certificates of sol- hggfégsé ;,g*}}g°¤¤* diers’ additional homestead right, under section twenty-three hundred cemm cqmnéaea and six, Revised Statutes of the United States, issued by the Commis- §,,,,°§j J" w‘“°* V'"` sioner of the General Land Office in May, eighteen hundred and ninet - R·$-·¤<>°·T*°6·P-422 _ six, under authority of the Act of Congress of August erpghteenth, vox. m, p. an. eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to M. J. l/`Vine, assignee of homas O. George, Moses Roley, Andrew A. Harrison,VVilliam Bohanan, Leland L. Bette rton, James R. Blades, John Pendleton, Charles M. Blair, Elbert S. VVittenberg, l/Villiam D. Reynolds, John M. Walker, and Caleb Sill, be, and the same are hereby, made valid. Approved, March 3, 1906. i voi. xxxxv, Pr 1——-4