What is "stated supply"

Supply \Sup*ply"\, n.; pl. Supplies.

1. The act of supplying; supplial.
   --A. Tucker.

2. That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want. Specifically:

   1. Auxiliary troops or re["e]nforcements. ``My promised supply of horsemen.''
      --Shak.

   2. The food, and the like, which meets the daily necessities of an army or other large body of men; store; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the army was discontented for lack of supplies.

   3. An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures; generally in the plural; as, to vote supplies.

   4. A person who fills a place for a time; one who supplies the place of another; a substitute; esp., a clergyman who supplies a vacant pulpit.

      Stated supply (Eccl.), a clergyman employed to supply a pulpit for a definite time, but not settled as a pastor.

      Supply and demand. (Polit. Econ.) ``Demand means the quantity of a given article which would be taken at a given price. Supply means the quantity of that article which could be had at that price.''
      --F. A. Walker.