Contingent Expenses of Executive Department

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The following contingent expenses of the executive department shall be a charge upon the state treasury:

  1. Such sums of money as may be necessary to defray the expenses attendant on exchanging laws and documents with the several states of the union;
  2. Such sums of money as may be necessary to provide stationery for the governor's and secretary's offices, and postage and expressage on public letters and documents;
  3. An amount to pay for cleaning the public arms of the state and keeping them in good serviceable order; and
  4. Such sums of money as may be requisite to defray the expenses of all messengers and messages which it may be necessary for the governor to dispatch.

Code 1858, § 191 (deriv. Acts 1811, ch. 85, §§ 1, 3; 1813, ch. 79, § 1; 1853-1854, ch. 266, § 1); Shan., § 238; mod. Code 1932, § 180; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-104.

Compiler's Notes. This section may be affected by §9-1-116, concerning entitlement to funds, absent appropriation.


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