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The Senate: �Adopted a resolution authorizing each member to employ an extra clerk for the remainder of the present session�the clerk's pay to come out of the Senate's contingent fund.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her ships of war sailed to both of our coasts, the Atlantic and Pacific, with the understanding that the expense of this demonstration should be met by the United States, out of the contingent fund.

From Letters of Franklin K. Lane by Wall, Louise Herrick

A contingent fund out of which to meet the expense of emergencies in the execution of laws is usually placed at his disposal, but this fund cannot be used for private purposes.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by Garner, James Wilford

The expenses of the agency have been defrayed out of the contingent fund for foreign intercourse.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

Has not the Postmaster-General, or Secretary of War or Treasury, the power to pay a few hundred dollars from a contingent fund for such purposes?

From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)