APPROPRIATION

The act of appropriating or setting apart; pres_crlbing the destination of a thlng; designating _the US4t or application of a fund. In public law. The act by which ttl& legls_lative department of government desig• nates a particular fund, or sets apart a speoffied portion of the public revenue or of the money in the public treasury, to be applied to_ some general object of governmental expenditure, (a& the civil service list., etc.,> [s. 86]