Request for Advance Decision as to Availability of Pending Appropriation for Credit of 5 Percent to Salary Accounts of Civilian Professors and Instructors at the U.S. Naval Academy

GAO commented on whether funds from the Navy's 1937 appropriations act were available to pay the salaries of civilian professors and instructors for the period March 1, 1936, to June 30, 1936. GAO held that the Navy may properly use the 1937 appropriations funds to pay for the 1936 obligations, since the language of appropriations act indicated that the funds were available for that purpose.