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 Constitution
thereof; and the General Assembly may amend the bill by in-
creasing or diminishing the items therein relating 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, pro-
vided, 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 immed-
iately 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 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 House?, and
no such other appropriation shall be valid except in accordance
with the provisions following' (1) Every such appropriation
shall be enbodied in a separate bill limited to some single work,
object or purpose therein stated and called herein a Supple-
mentary Appropriation Bill; (2) Each Supplementary Appro-
priation 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 Sup-
plementary 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 re-
corded on its final passage; (4) Each Supplementary Appro-
priation Bill shall be presented to the Governor of the State
as provided in Section 17 of Article II of the Constitution 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 Constitution and
subject to the Governor's power of approval as provided in
Section 17 of Article II of the Constitution an appropriation
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.