...sections, interpreted together, forbid the making of a contract or purchase on behalf of the Government unless the same is authorized by law or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment; but to the restrictions imposed by said sections Congress has excepted in the War and Navy Departments...

...contract? Not at all. Under a statute prohibiting any contract on behalf of the United States unless It Is "authorized by law or is under an appropriation adequate to its f ulflllment," a valid lease of a building for a postoffice cannot be made by the postmaster general...

...to this subject. (Oir. 3, C. of E., 1899.) 278. Contracts must be authorized by law.— No contract on behalf of the United States shall be made unless...under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment (RS, 3679, 3732, 3733; 33 Stats., 1257,— § 239; AR 514, 580), and for the violation of this prohibition...

...any contract for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations. Section 3732 provides: No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States...except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters, or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities...

...dollars: Provided, That no contract or purchase on behalf of the United States £|£$^,-оп ,„, „j, shall be made, unless- the same is authorized by law or is under an Government conappropriation adequate to its fulfillment, except in the War and Navy '"Yxception for...

...and twenty-three thousand dollars: Provided, That no contract or purchase on behal fi if the Uni ted States shall be made, unless the same is authorized by law or 25 is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment, except in the War and Navy Departments, for...

...the inspection and revision of the officers of the Treasury in the manner Jwfore prescribed.1 1521. No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States...shall be made, unless the same is authorized by law iuyar ._, 1%1 c or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment, ^"' '"• v- I2> p' except...

...contract in the name of the United States. Section 3732 of the Revised Statutes enacts as follows: "No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States...except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel; quarters, or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities...

...contract in the na'me of the United States. Section 3732 of the Revised Statutes enacts as follows: "No contract or purchase: on behalf of the United...except in the War and Navy departments, for clothing, subsistence, fora-ie, fuel, quarters, or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities...

...fiscal year it would lapse at the end of that year. Section 3732 of the Revised Statutes provides: " No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States...appropriation adequate to its fulfillment, except jn the War and Navy Departments for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters or transportation,...