Fourth. The Governor and such representatives of the
executive 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 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; (2) 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 pre-
sented 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 pre-
venting the Legislature from passing at any time in ac-
cordance 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 pay-
ment 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 Bud-
get Bill shall not have been finally acted upon by the Legis-
lature three days before the expiration of its regular ses-
sion, the Governor may, and it shall be his duty to issue
a proclamation extending the session for such further per-
iod 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..