[Art. 3, Sec. 52] MARYLAND MANUAL 323

Judiciary Department, as provided by law, certified by the
Comptroller; (d) to pay and discharge the principal and
interest of the debt of the State in conformity with Section
34 of Article 3 of the Constitution, and all laws enacted in
pursuance thereof; (e) for the salaries payable by the
State under the Constitution and laws of the State; (f) for
the establishment and maintenance throughout the State of
a thorough and efficient system of public schools in con-
formity with Article 8 of the Constitution and with the
laws of the State; (g) for such other purposes as are set
forth in the Constitution or laws of the State.

(5) The Governor shall deliver to the presiding officer of
each House the Budget and a bill for all the proposed ap-
propriations of the Budget classified and in such detail as
he shall determine or as may be prescribed by law; and the
presiding officer of each House shall promptly cause said
bill to be introduced therein, and such bill shall be known
as the "Budget Bill." The Governor may, with the consent
of the General Assembly, before final action thereon by
the General Assembly, amend or supplement said Budget
to correct an oversight, provide funds contingent on pass-
age of pending legislation or, in case of an emergency, by
delivering such an amendment or supplement to the pre-
siding officers 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 modi-
fication of or a substitute for any item of said bill such
amendment or supplement may affect.

(6) The General Assembly shall not amend the Budget
Bill so as to affect either the obligations of the State under
Section 34 of Article 3 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 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 there-
in relating to the General Assembly, and by increasing the
items therein relating to the judiciary, but except as here-
inbefore 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.

(7) The Governor and such representatives of the execu-
tive departments, boards, officers and commissions of the