A bill to provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
PL 93-325 (H.R.14832), enacted 06/30/1974

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PUBLIC LAW 93-325-JUNE 30, 1974 
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SEC. 105. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint resolution shall 
be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization 
whenever a bill in which such applicable appropriation, fund, or 
authorization is contained is enacted into law. 
SEC. 106. Except as provided in section 101(e) no appropriation or 
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fund made available or authority granted pursuant to this joint res-
olution shall be used to initiate or resume any project or activity for 
which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available 
during the fiscal year 1974. 
SEC. 107. Any appropriation for the fiscal year 1975 required to be 
apportioned pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as ^^ use 665. 
amended, may be apportioned on a basis indicating the need (to the 
extent any such increases cannot be absorbed within available appro-
priations) for a supplemental or deficiency estimate of appropriation 
to the extent necessary to permit payment of such pay increases as 
may be granted pursuant to law to civilian officers and employees and 
to active and retired military personnel. Each such appropriation shall 
otherwise be subject to the requirements of section 3679 of the Revised 
Statutes, as amended. 
SEC. 108. All obligations incurred in anticipation of the appro-
priations and authority provided in this joint resolution are hereby 
ratified and confirmed if otherwise in accordance with the provisions 
of this joint resolution. 
SEC. 109. None of the funds herein made available shall be expended 
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to aid or assist in the reconstruction or the Democratic Republic oi funds, prohibi-
Vietnam (North Vietnam). 
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SEC. 110. None of the funds herein made available shall be obligated 
southeast Asia, 
or expended to finance directly or indirectly combat activities by fu^s! p^ohiw-^^' 
United States military forces in or over or from off the shores of tion. 
North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia. 
SEC. 111. Any provision of law which requires unexpended funds 
to return to the general fund of the Treasury at the end of the fiscal 
year shall not be held to affect the status of any lawsuit or right of 
action involving the right to those funds. 
Approved June 30, 1974. 
Public Law 93-325 
AN A C T 
June 30, 1974 
To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asserribled., That during the 
Public debt 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending ^'Temporary 
on March 31, 1975, the public debt limit set forth in the first sentence increase. 
of section 21 of the Second Liberty Bond Act (31 U.S.C. 757b) shall 
be temporarily increased by $95,000,000,000. 
SEC. 2. Effective on the date of the enactment of this Act, the first jife^^a^i: ^"^^' 
section of the Act of December 3, 1973, providing for a temporary 
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increase in the public debt limit for a period ending June 30, 1974 ''°*^-
(Public Law 93-173), is hereby repealed. 
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Approved June 30, 1974.