es where there is a failure on the 1st of July to supply such
appropriation; each appropriation so extended to hold good until
Congress shall have passed a corresponding appropriation applicable to
the new fiscal year, when all moneys expended under laws enacted for
this fiscal year shall be deducted from the corresponding appropriation
for the next.

To make my ideas on this subject more clear, I have caused to be drawn
up a joint resolution embodying them more fully.

U.S. GRANT.

JOINT RESOLUTION to provide for defraying temporarily the ordinary and
necessary expenses of the public service.

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 b