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
State expending or applying for State's moneys, as have
been designated by the Governor for this purpose, shall
have the right, and when requested by either House of the
General Assembly, it shall be their duty to appear and be
heard with respect to any Budget Bill during the considera-
tion thereof, and to answer inquiries relative thereto.

(8) Supplementary Appropriation Bill. 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 accordance with
the provisions following: (a) Every such appropriation
shall be embodied in a separate bill limited to some single
works, object or purpose therein stated and called herein a
Supplementary Appropriation Bill; (b) Each Supplemen-
tary Appropriation Bill shall provide the revenue neces-
sary to pay the appropriation thereby made* a tax, direct
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

*The word "by" apparently omitted.