Whereas the ordinary and necessary expenses of the public service in its
various branches, comprising among others the expenses which especially
pertain to the legislative, executive, and judicial departments of the
Government, to the consular and diplomatic service, to the postal
service, to the support of the Army, and to the maintenance of the Navy,
are generally met by annual appropriations which expire at the end of
the current fiscal year; and
Whereas no public funds will be available to defray these expenses as
the same shall accrue after that period unless appropriations shall have
been previously made therefor by law; and
Whereas, to avoid the great embarrassment to the public service that
might otherwise ensue, it is expedient to make provision for defraying
temporarily such of these expenses as would be unprovided for in case
some one of the usual annual appropriation bills designed to provide
therefor should fail to be matured by the end of the fiscal year now
current: Therefore,
_Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled_, That in case any of the
following appropriation bills for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877,
shall not have passed by the commencement of such year, so that the
funds to be appropriated thereby may then be available for
expenditure--that is to say, the bill providing for the legislative,
executive, and judicial expenses; the bill providing for the consular
and diplomatic expenses; the bill providing for the service of the
Post-Office Department; the bill providing for the support of the Army,
and the bill providing for the naval service--the appropriation act for
the current fiscal year corresponding in its general description and
object to such appropriation bill shall extend to the fiscal year next
ensuing until such appropriation bill is enacted and takes effect, to
the end that the provisions of such appropriation act which apply to the
ordinary and necessary expenses of the public service for the current
fiscal year shall in like manner be applicable to similar expenses which
may accrue during the period intervening between the end of the current
fiscal year and the time when such appropriation bill for the next
ensuing fiscal year shall be enacted and take effect.
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