If authorized by law, these sums are credited directly to specific appropriation and fund accounts.

Congress can strengthen the President's authority to submit specific appropriations for cutting.

If there have been a number of advances on a current account and a repayment is made, any parties involved can make a specific appropriation against a particular debt.

They also had argued that the courts lacked jurisdiction to order the Legislature to make specific budgetary appropriations.

Federal law requires that projects that cost more be paid for with specific Congressional appropriations.

Now, without a new law specifically authorizing its use and a new, specific appropriation to pay for it, the program could not be used against United States citizens.

Since 1973, the United States Congress has set aside a specific appropriation within the NEA budget for the states and their regional organizations.

But, Ms. O'Connor said, Mrs. Whitman is investigating whether money might be available to at least begin construction without a specific appropriation by the Legislature.

The United States Congress sets aside a specific appropriation within the NEA budget for the "states and their regional organizations."

But no charter amendment can or should force the Mayor to make specific appropriations, said Robert Esnard, Deputy Mayor for Policy and Physical Development.