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Fiscal year limitation.

31 USC 665.

U.S. combat activities in Southeast Asia, funds, prohibition.

North Vietnam, funds, prohibition.

PUBLIC LAW 93-53-JULY 1, 1973

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to this joint resolution 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 joint resolution. SEC. 105. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is enacted into law. SEC. 106. No appropriation or fund made available or authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall be used to initiate or resume any project or activity for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available during the fiscal year 1973. SEC. 107. Any appropriation for the fiscal year 1974 required to be apportioned pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, may be apportioned on a basis indicating the need (to the extent any such increases cannot be absorbed within available appropriations) for a supplemental or deficiency estimate of appropriation to the extent necessary to permit payment of such pay increases as may be granted pursuant to law to civilian officers and employees and to active and retired military personnel. Each such appropriation shall otherwise be subject to the requirements of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended. SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or after August 15, 1973, no funds herein or heretofore appropriated may be obligated or expended to finance directly or indirectly combat activities by United States military forces in or over or from off the shores of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia. SEC. 109. Appropriations and authority provided in this joint resolution shall be available from July 1, 1973, and all obligations incurred in anticipation of the appropriations and authority provided in this joint resolution are hereby ratified and confirmed if otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this joint resolution. SEC. 110. Unless specifically authorized by Congress, none of the funds herein appropriated under this joint resolution or heretofore appropriated under any other Act may be expended for the purpose of providing assistance in the Teconstruction or rehabilitation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). SEC. 111. Any provision of law which requires unexpended funds to return to the general fund of the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year shall not be held to affect the status of any lawsuit or right of action involving the right to those funds. Approved July 1, 1973.

Public Law 93-53 July 1, 1973 [H. R. 8410]

Public debt limit. Temporary increase. continuation

AN ACT To continue the existing temporary increase in the public debt limit througli Novembf r 30, 1973, and for other jmrposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentativeH of the United States of America in Congress assenfihlexl^ That section 101 of the Act of Octot3er 27, 1972, providing for a temporary increase in the

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