on by the General Assembly, amend or supplement either of
said budgets to correct an oversight or in case of an emer-
gency, with the consent of the General Assembly by delivering
such an amendment or supplement to the presiding officers of
both Houses; and such amendment or supplement shall there-
by become a part of said budget bill as an addition to the
items of said bill or as a modification of or a substitute for
any item of said bill such amendment or supplement may
affect.

The General Assembly shall not amend the budget bill so as
to affect either the obligations of the State under Section 34
of Article III of the Constitution, or the provisions made by
the laws of the State for the establishment and maintenance of
a system of public schools, or the payment of any salaries re-
quired to be paid by the State of Maryland by the Constitu-
tion thereof; and the General Assembly may amend the bill
by increasing or diminishing the items therein relating to
the General Assembly, and by increasing the items therein re-
lating to the judiciary, but except as hereinbefore specified.
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 applying 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 an-
swer 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) Bach Supple-