MARYLAND MANUAL 299.
or indirect, to be levied and collected as shall be directed in
said bill; (c) 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; (d)
Each Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall be presented
to the Governor of the State as provided in Section 17 of
Article 2 of the Constitution and thereafter all the pro-
visions of said section shall apply..
(9) Nothing in this section shall be construed as pre-
venting the general Assembly from passing at any time, in
accordance with the provisions of Section 28 of Article 3
of the Constitution and subject to the Governor's power of
approval as provided in Section 17 of Article 2 of the
Constitution, an appropriation bill to provide for the pay-
ment of any obligation of the State within the protection of
Section 10 of Article I of the Constitution of the United
States..
(10) 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 some
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..
(11) The Governor for the purpose of making up his
Budget shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to
require from the proper State officials, including herein all
executive departments, all executive and administrative of-
fices, bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies, expend-
ing or supervising the expenditure of, and all institutions
applying for State moneys and appropriations, such item-
ized estimates and other information, in such form and at
such times as he shall direct. The estimates for the Legisla-
tive Department, certified by the presiding officer of each
House, of the Judiciary, as provided by law, certified by
the Comptroller, and for the public schools, as provided by
law, shall be transmitted to the Governor, in such form and
at such times as he shall direct, and shall be included in
the Budget without revision..
(12) The Governor may provide for public hearings on
all estimates and may require the attendance at such hear-
ings of representatives of all agencies, and for all institu-.
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