Joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1964, and for other purposes
PL 88-55 (H.J.Res.508), enacted 06/29/1963

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PUBLIC LAW 88-55-JUNE 29, 1963 
[77 STAT. 
June 29, 1963 
[H. J. Res. 508J 
Continuing 
appropriations, 
1964. 
76 Stat. 1163. 
76 Stat. 716. 
Public Law 88-55 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Making continuing appropriations for the tiscal year 1964, and for other purposes. 
Resolved by the /Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
/States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are 
appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, 
and funds, for the several departments, agencies, corporations, and 
other organizational units of the Government, for the fiscal year 1964. 
namely: 
SEC. 101. (a) (1) Such amounts as may be necessary for continuing 
projects or activities (not otherwise specifically provided for in this 
joint resolution) which were conducted in the fiscal year 1963 and for 
which appropriations, funds, or other authority would be available 
in the following appropriation Acts for the fiscal year 1964: 
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropria-
tion Act; 
Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare 
Appropriation Act; 
Legislative Branch Appropriation Act; 
Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropria-
tion Act; 
Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, 
and Related Agencies Appropriation Act; and the 
Department of Defense Appropriation Act. 
(2) Appropriations made by this subsection shall be available to 
the extent and in the manner which would be provided by the pertinent 
appropriation Act. 
(3) Whenever the amount which would be made available or the 
authority which would be granted under an Act listed in this sub-
section as passed by the House is different from that which would be 
available or granted under such Act as passed by the Senate, the 
pertinent project or activity shall be continued under the lesser 
amount or the more restrictive authority. 
(4) Whenever an Act listed in this subsection has been passed by 
only one House or where an item is included in only one version of an 
Act as passed by both Houses, the pertinent project or activity shall 
be continued under the appropriation, fund, or authority, granted by 
the one House, but at a rate for operations not exceeding the current 
rate or the rate permitted by the action of the one House, whichever 
is lower: Provided, That no provision which is included in an appro-
priation Act enumerated in this subsection but which was not included 
in the applicable appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1963, and which 
by its terms is applicable to more than one appropriation, fund, or 
authority, shall be applicable to any appropriation, fund, or authority, 
provided in this joint resolution unless such provision shall have been 
included in identical form in such bill as-enacted by both the House 
and Senate. 
(b) Such amounts as may be necessary for continuing 
projects 
or activities which were conducted in the fiscal year 1963 and are listed 
in this subsection at a rate for operations not m excess of the current 
rate or the rate provided for in the budget estimate, whichever is 
lower, and under the more restrictive authority: 
Foreign assistance and other activities for which provision was 
made in the Foreign Aid and Related Agencies Appropriation 
Act, 1963; 
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. . 
Agencies for which provision was made in the Independent 
Offices Appropriation Act, 1963; 
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PUBLIC LAW 88-56-JULY 8, 1963 
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76 Stat. 1150. 
Activities for which provision was made in the District of 
Columbia Appropriation Act, 1968; 
Activities for which provision was made in the Public Works 
Appropriation Act, 1963; 
76 stat. 1216. 
Activities for which provision was made hi the Military Con-
struction Appropriation Act, 1963; 
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United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; 
Department of State, 
Acquisition, operation, and maintenance of buildings abroad. 
(c) Such amounts as may be necessary for continuing projects or 
activities for which disbursements are made by the Secretary of the 
Senate, and the Senate items under the Architect of the Capitol, to 
the extent and in the manner which would be provided for in the 
budget estimates for the fiscal year 1964. 
SEC. 102. Appropriations and funds made available and authority 
granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall remain available until 
(a) enactment into law of an appropriation for any project or activity 
provided in this joint resolution, or (b) enactment of the applicable 
appropriation Act by both Houses without any provision for such 
project or activity, or (c) August 31, 1963, whichever first occurs. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations and funds made available or authority 
granted pursuant to this joint resolution may be used without regard 
to the time limitations set forth in subsection (d) (2) of section 3679 
of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and expenditures therefrom shall 
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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. 104. No appropriation or fund made available or authority 
granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall be used to initiate or 
resume any project or activity which was not being conducted during 
the fiscal year 1963. Appropriations made and authority granted 
pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obligations or expendi-
tures incurred for any project or activity during the period for which 
funds or authority for such project or activity are available under 
this joint resolution. 
Approved June 29, 1963. 
Public Law 88-56 
AN ACT 
July 8, 1963 
To designate the Bear (Jreek Uam on the Lehigh River, Pennsylvania, as the 
[H. R. 5367] 
Francis E. Walter Dam. 
Be It emucted hy the ^Senate aTid House of Repre>ie7itatlve8 of the 
United Staten of America in Congress assembled^ That the dam known 
Francis E. 
as the Bear ('reek Dam authorized to be constructed on the I^ehigh ^ol^s'i^a'tion. 
River in the Delaware River Basin in the State of Pemisylvania by the 
Flood Control Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 644) shall be known and desig-
luited hereafter as the "Francis E. Walter Dam". Any law, reguk-
tion, map, d(K'ument, record, or other paper of the United States in 
which such dam is referred to shall be held to refer to such dam as the 
"Francis E. Walter Dam". 
Approved July 8, 1983.