may not alter the said bill except to strike out or reduce items
therein, provided, however, that the salary or compensation of
any public officer shall not be decreased during his term of
office; and such bill when and as passed by both Houses shall
be a law immediately without further action by the Governor.

Fourth. The Governor and such representatives of the ex-
ecutive departments, boards, officers and commissions of the
State expending or supplying for State's money, as have been
designated by the Governor for this purpose, shall have the

right, and when requested by either House of the Legislature,
it shall be their duty to appear and be heard with respect to
any budget bill during the consideration thereof) and to
answer inquiries relative thereto.

Sub-Section C: Supplementary Appropriation Bills:—
Neither House shall consider other appropriations until the
Budget Bill has been finally acted upon by both Houses, and
no such other appropriation shall be valid except in accord-
ance with the provisions following: (1) Every such appro-
priation shall be embodied in a separate bill limited to some
single work, object or purpose therein stated and called herein
a Supplementary Appropriation Bill; (a) Each Supplemen-
tary Appropriation Bill shall provide the revenue necessary
to pay the appropriation thereby made by a tax, direct or in-
direct, to be laid and collected as shall be directed in said
Bill; (3) No Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall be-
come a law unless it be passed in each House by a vote of a
majority of the whole number of the members elected; and the
yeas and nays recorded on its final passage; (4) Each Supple-
mentary Appropriation Bill shall be presented to the Governor
of the State as provided in Section 17 of Article II of the Con-
stitution and thereafter all the provisions of said Section shall
apply.
Nothing in this amendment shall be construed as preventing

the Legislature from passing at any time in accordance with

the provisions of Section 28 of Article III of the Constitu-
tion and subject to the Governor's power of approval as pro-
vided in Section 17 of Article II of the Constitution an appro-
priation bill to provide for the payment of any obligation of

the State of Maryland within the protection of Section 10 of
Article I of the Constitution of the United States.

Sub-Section D: General Provisions -.—First. If the Budget
Bill shall not have been finally acted upon by the' Legislature
three days before the expiration of its regular session, the
Governor may, and it shall be his duty to issue a proclamation
extending the session for such further period as may, in his
judgment, be necessary for the passage of such bill; but no
other matter than such bill shall be considered during such
extended session except a provision for the cost thereof.