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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

The government's share of all business was to form a contingent fund for such emergencies, it seemed.

From A Poor Wise Man by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

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

To defray the necessary expenses of such investigation, including the employment of clerical assistance, the committee is authorized to expend not to exceed 1,000 from the contingent fund of the House.

From Jailed for Freedom by Stevens, Doris

There are several new life members, ten in all now, and the secretary has followed the course adopted some time ago of depositing receipts from life memberships in a savings bank as a contingent fund.

From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 by Northern Nut Growers Association