Appropriation

Of Payments. The application of a pa3mient made to a creditor by his debtor, to one or more of several debts. In the absence of an agreement, the application is presumed to be that most favorable to the debtor. In Ecclesiastical Law. The perpetual annexation of an ecclesiastical benefice which is the general property of the church to the use of some spiritual corporation, either sole or aggregate. It corresponds with "impropriation," which is setting apart in England to retain the churches in their gift, and all the profits of them in propria usus to their own immediate benefit.

1 Bum, Ecc. Law, 71.

Of Government Money. No money can be drawn from the treasury of the United States but in consequence of appropriations made by law. Const, art.

1, § 9.

Under this clause of the constitution it is necessary for congress to appropriate money for the support of the federal government, a-nd in payment of claims against it, and this is done annually by acts of appropriation, some of which are for the general purposes of government, and others special and private in their nature.