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[72 Stat. 853]
PUBLIC LAW 85-000—MMMM. DD, 1958
[72 Stat. 853]

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PUBLIC LAW 8 5 - 7 6 0 - A U G. 26, 1958

"(e) Any obligations incurred during the fiscal year concerned or in prior fiscal years which do not result in liabilities becoming payable during the fiscal year concerned shall be charged against the limitation on annual accrued expenditures for any succeeding fiscal year in which such obligations may result in liabilities becoming payable. "(f) Nothing in subsections (b) through (e) of this section shall be construed to change existing law with respect to the method or manner of making appropriations or the incurring of obligations under appropriations." SEC. 2. (a) I t shall be in order to provide in any bill or joint resolution making appropriations, or in any amendment thereto, limitations on annual accrued expenditures covering amounts becoming payable as a result of obligations incurred both in the fiscal year concerned and in prior fiscal years, and to include in any such bill or joint resolution provisions authorizing the head of a department or establishment to make transfers, within his department or establishment, between such limitations on annual accrued expenditures; and such provisions may limit by amount or by per centum the size of any transfer so provided for. (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section are enacted by the Congress— (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of that House to which they specifioally apply; and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and (2) with full recognition of the Constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to the procedure in such House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House. SEC. 3. This Act, and the amendments made thereby shall cease to be in effect April 1, 1962. Approved August 25, 1958.

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L i m i t ations on annual accrued ex> penditures.

Termination.

Public Law 85-760 AN ACT To remove the present $1,000 limitation which prevents the settlement of certain claims arising out of the crash of an aircraft belonging to the United States at Worcester, Massachusetts, on July 18, 1957.

August 26, 1958 [H. R. 8868]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the $1,000 lim- Re^^^ai „£ n ^. itation on claims contained in the paragraph under the center head- tation. ing "Claims" in title II of the Department of Defense Appropriation 'Anfefp. V12*. A.ct, 1958, and title II of the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1959, shall not apply with respect to claims arising out of the crash on July 18, 1957, at Worcester, Massachusetts, of an aircraft belonging to the United States and being operated on a routine training flight by a member of the Air National Guard while on a camp of instruction. SEC. 2. Payments made pursuant to the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1958, and the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1959, for death, personal injury, and property loss claims, shall not be subject to insurance subrogation claims in any respect. No pay-