cers of both Houses; and such amendment or supplement
shall thereby become a part of said budget bill as an addition
to the items of said bill or as a modification of or a substi-
tute for any item of said bill such amendment or supplement
may effect.

The General Assembly shall not amend the budget bill so
as to affect either the obligations Lions 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 mainte-
nance of a system of public schools, or the payment of any
salaries required to be paid by the State of Maryland by the
Constitution thereof; and the General Assembly may amend
the bill by increasing or diminishing the items therein re-
lating to the General Assembly, and by increasing the items
therein relating 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 Sup-
plementary Appropriation Bill shall provide the revenue
necessary to pay the appropriation thereby made by a tax,
direct or indirect, to be laid and collected as shall be directed
in said Bill; (3) No Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall
become 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
Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall be presented to the
Governor of the State as provided in Section 17 of Article II