Law
In constitutional law, appropriation is the assignment of money for a special purpose.
In the United Kingdom an appropriation act appropriating various sums to government departments and quangos, as set out by the government.
The United States Constitution (art. I. ยง 9) says: "No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law." The most important statutes of this sort are the 13 annual appropriation bills, by which definite sums are reserved for specified objects. Bills for appropriating money must originate in the House of Representatives, but may be amended in the Senate.
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