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[CITE: 48USC1423j]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                            CHAPTER 8A--GUAM
 
                     SUBCHAPTER III--THE LEGISLATURE
 
Sec. 1423j. Authorization of appropriations

    (a) Appropriations, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, 
and except such appropriations as shall be made from time to time by the 
Congress of the United States, shall be made by the legislature.
    (b) If at the termination of any fiscal year the legislature shall 
have failed to pass appropriation bills providing for payments of the 
necessary current expenses of the government and meeting its legal 
obligations for the ensuing fiscal year, then the several sums 
appropriated in the last appropriation bills for the objects and 
purposes therein specified, so far as the same may be applicable, shall 
be deemed to be reappropriated, item by item.
    (c) All appropriations made prior to August 1, 1950 shall be 
available to the government of Guam.

(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, Sec. 20, 64 Stat. 389.)
