No contract shall be hereafter made by the Council or any committee or member thereof, and no expense shall be incurred by any of the officers or departments of the city, whether the object of the expenditure shall have been ordered by the Council or not, unless an appropriation shall have been previously made concerning such expense, except as herein otherwise expressly provided.
(1963 Code, § 1-16-5) (Ord. 291, passed 7-27-1931)