This is one of a group of five documents which relate to the budget for 1968. The Budget of the United States Government, 1968, is a compact volume containing the Budget Message of the President, summary tables and statistical information, and four special analyses.

The Budget of the United States Government, 1968-Appendix contains the text of appropriation estimates proposed for the consideration of the Congress together with specific reference materials on the various appropriations and funds. The contents of this volume are further explained at the beginning of each of its four parts.

The Budget of the United States Government, 1968-The District of Columbia is a volume which relates specifically to the estimates for the municipal government of the District of Columbia.

In addition, a pamphlet type of publication, The Budget in Brief, 1968, is available for those who wish a much more brief presentation than any of the three official volumes.

A second pamphlet type of publication, Special Analyses, Budget of the United States, 1968, contains the four special analyses which are printed in the budget, and nine additional analyses.

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enactment by Congress on each item of authorization. Material is also included on a few trust funds which require congressional action. This part is arranged in chapters reflecting the organization of the Government.

Federal (Government-owned) funds are of four types, as follows:

The general fund is credited with receipts which are not earmarked by law for a specific purpose, and is charged with expenditures that are payable from appropriations (except appropriations of earmarked receipts) and from borrowing. Both in number of items and in amounts, most of the Government's business is transacted through the general fund.

Special funds are those which are established to account for receipts that are earmarked by law for a specific purpose. They exclude the funds which carry on a cycle of operations for which there is continuing authority to use the receipts (as described in the next paragraph). Some special funds are subject to annual appropriation by Congress. Others are automatically available under the laws which created the funds.

Public enterprise (revolving) funds are those which

| finance a cycle of operations, in which the expenditures generate receipts coming primarily from the public and available for continuing use. They include nearly all of the Government-owned corporations, the postal fund, and various unincorporated enterprises.

Intragovernmental revolving and management funds (including consolidated working funds) are those which are created to facilitate financing operations within and between Government agencies. They consist of two typesintragovernmental revolving funds which finance a cycle of operations, like public enterprise funds but with receipts primarily from within the Government; and management funds which permit the pooling of advance payments from two or more appropriations to carry out certain activities. Other funds, for which the Government serves in a fiduciary capacity, are of two types-trust funds and deposit funds. They are explained at the beginning of part II.

For each appropriation, this appendix includes certain detailed material, as follows: (1) appropriation language, if applicable; (2) a schedule of program and financing; (3) a narrative statement on program and performance; and (4) a schedule of object classification. An exception occurs in the case of certain permanent appropriations and older appropriation accounts on which only a residual balance remains; such accounts of a bureau or independent agency are often combined into a single presentation. Where the obligations fall in a single object class, the classification is identified in the program and financing schedule, rather than in a separate schedule.

For revolving funds, there are usually two additional schedules covering (5) revenue, expense, and retained earnings; and (6) financial condition.

The basic schedules usually exclude supplemental estimates which it is expected will be transmitted to Congress separately, for 1967 and 1968; these are covered by a brief schedule of program and financing, without appropriation language. However, in the 1967 column, the basic schedules include (and identify) supplementals required to meet costs of military and civilian pay increases under recently enacted legislation and those resulting from wage-board decisions.

The 1968 column includes, within the regular schedules,

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appropriations for recommended extension or renewal of expiring laws; however, money for new legislation is shown separately. Appropriation language is included for the former, not the latter.

APPROPRIATION LANGUAGE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses to carry into effect the provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1-17a), [$1,398,000] $1,491,000. (Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1967.)