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PUBLIC LAW 123-JUNE 30, 1955

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such applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted into law. SEC. 104. No appropriation or fund made available or authority granted pursuant to this title shall be used to initiate or resume any project or activity which was not being conducted during the fiscal year 1965. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant to this title shall cover all obligations or expenditures incurred for any project or activity during the period for which funds or authority for such project or activity are available under this title. TITLE II I N C R E A S E D P A Y COSTS For costs in the fiscal year 1955 of pay increases granted by or pur>infe,pp.88,i72. suaut to Public Laws 68 and 94, Eighty-fourth Congress, for any branch of the Federal Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia, such amounts as may be necessary, to be determined and made available as hereinafter provided in this title, but no appropriation, fund, or authorization may be increased pursuant to the provisions of this title in an amount in excess of the cost to such appropriation, fund, or authorization of increased compensation pursuant to Public Laws 68 and 94, Eighty-fourth Congress. SEC. 202. Any officer having administrative control of an appropriation, fund, or authorization properly chargeable with the costs in the fiscal year 1955 of pay increases granted by or pursuant to Public Laws 68 and 94, Eighty-fourth Congress, is authorized to transfer thereto, from the unobligated balance of any other appropriation, fund, or authorization under his administrative control and expiring for obligation on June 80, 1955, such amounts as may be necessary for meetingsuch costs. SEC. 203. Whenever any officer referred to in section 202 of this title shall determine that he has exhausted the possibilities of meeting the cost of pay increases through the use of transfers as authorized by said section, he shall certify the additional amount required to meet such costs for each appropriation, fund, or authorization under his administrative control, and the amounts so certified shall be added to the pertinent appropriation, fund, or authorization for the fiscal year 1955: Provided, That any transfer under the authority of section 202 or any certification made under the authority of this section by an officer in or under the executive branch of the Federal Government shall be valid only when approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. SEC. 204. For the purposes of the transfers and certifications authorized by sections 202 and 203 of this title, the following officers shall be deemed to have administrative control of appropriations, funds, or authorizations available within their respective organizational units— (a) For the legislative branch: The Clerk of the House; The Secretary of the Senate; The Librarian of Congress; The Architect of the Capitol; The Public Printer; The Comptroller General of the United States; The Chairman of any commission in or under the legislative branch. (b) For the judiciary: The Administrative Officer of the United States Courts.

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