(4) Each Budget shall embrace an estimate of all appro-
priations in such form and detail as the Governor shall
determine or as may be prescribed by law, as follows: (a)
for the General Assembly as certified to the Governor in
the manner hereinafter provided; (b) for the Executive
Department; (c) for the Judiciary Department, as pro-
vided 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 Consti-
tution and laws of the State; (f) for the establishment
and maintenance throughout the State of a thorough and
efficient system of public schools in conformity with Article
8 of the Constitution and with the laws of the State; (g)
for such other purposes as are set forth in the Constitu-
tion 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 form and
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 there-
on by the General Assembly, amend or supplement said
Budget to correct an oversight, provide funds contingent on
passage of pending legislation or, in case of an emergency,
by delivering such an amendment or supplement to the
presiding 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

*Thus amended by Chapter 20, Acts of 1952, ratified November 4, 1952.