Now one of the things that I want to particularly bring to your attention, and to perhaps admonish you, in the two or three minutes I have left, is to remember, as I stated at the outset, that governmental activities exist only by authority of the law, and that we must keep within the law; and remember, if there are some things in connection with your duties that are not operating just as you would have them, that they cannot be changed without changing existing law. The responsibility for the law is upon the Congress of the United States. The responsibility for this great undertaking is upon the Congress of the United States, and if you have not sufficient money to properly take care of these men, the responsibility is not yours; the responsibility is upon the Congress. It is your duty;—it is our duty to bring to the attention of the Congress the money that is necessary in order to properly handle this subject. Then it is for the Congress to say whether or not that amount will be appropriated. Under this present administration, those of us who are in Bureau positions have been admonished that we must keep our expenditures within the appropriations, and we have had brought to our attention the statutes upon this subject. I am going to read them to you for your information, and I want to say to you who may have charge of an institution and have had a certain allotment of funds for a given period, that it is up to you to see that your expenditures do not exceed that allotment. If you have not sufficient money to do what you feel you ought to do, you must reduce your expenditures for the time being, regardless of its effect upon the service, because under the law you have no right to create a deficiency or incur any liability on the part of the Government in advance of an authorization and an appropriation therefor. I want to call your attention to the statutes on this subject because they are being brought to our attention not only by the President and the head of the Bureau of the Budget, but by the Congress; and so I want you people to understand that we are expected to follow the law. Mr. Burke read extracts from: Section 3679 Act of March 3, 1905. Section 5503. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the law; and so I want to impress upon you that you so conduct your institutions that you will keep within the limit of the allotment that has been made for your institution; and if you have not sufficient money, then bring it to the attention of the head of the Veterans’ Bureau or someone else connected with the administration. They will consider it, and if it shall seem that more money is necessary they will not only recommend it, but I think I can say for the Congress that the Congress will generously respond.