Authority to use savings in appropriations to cover deficits.
Section 5
SEC. 5. Authority to use savings in appropriations to cover deficits.—Except as otherwise provided in-this Act, any savings in the regular appropriations authorized in this Act for the Executive Departments for "personal services" for "maintenance and other operating expenses" and for "furniture and equipment" of the bureaus and offices under any Department, may, with the approval of the President, be used to cover a deficit in any other item of the regular appropriations, except for personal services, under the same Department: PROVIDED, That whenever authorized positions are transferred from one "program to another, the corresponding amounts appropriated for personal services are also deemed transferred, without increasing the total outlay for personal services of the office concerned. In no case, however, shall any item of appropriations be augmented, pursuant to the authority granted in this section, by more than forty per centum of the original appropriation provided in this Act for such item.