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Definition of Appropriation bill
1. Noun. A legislative act proposing to authorize the expenditure of public funds for a specified purpose.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appropriation Bill
Literary usage of Appropriation bill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... by a Vote of 227 to 4fi; bill to extend the limits of Yellowstone Park to 5300
miles (an addition of 2000), Senate, March 5 ; Naval appropriation bill, ..."
2. Review of Reviews by Albert Shaw (1897)
"The House passes the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill ($M¡37000, an
increase of ... ..In the House, the District of Columbia appropriation bill ..."
3. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by Thomas Hart Benton, United States Congress (1860)
"General appropriation bill—Documentary Eu- tory. ... Besides, they thought this
appropriation ought not to come in the general appropriation bill. ..."
4. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1892)
"appropriation bill. No public In speaking of the appropriation bill I do not wish
to without anticipate what I may have to say hereafter as to the Trea- *f ..."
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