so located, but the General Assembly may by law provide
for the taxation of mortgages upon property in this State
and the debts secured thereby, in the County or City where
such property is situated

SEC. 52.⁸¹ (1) The General Assembly shall not ap
propnate any money out of the Treasury except in accord
ance with the provisions of this section

(2) Every appropriation bill shall be either a Budget
Bill, or a Supplementary Appropriation Bill, as hereinafter
provided

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(3) On the third Wednesday in January in each year,

(except in the case of a newly elected Governor, and then
not later than ten days after the convening of the General
Assembly), unless such fame shall be extended by the General
Assembly, the Governor shall submit to the General Assem
biy a Budget for the next ensuing fiscal year Each Budget
shall contain a complete plan of proposed expenditures and
estimated revenues tor said fiscal year and shall show the
estimated surplus or deficit of revenues at the end of the
preceding fiscal year Accompanying each Budget shall be a
statement showing (a) the revenues and expenditures for
the preceding fiscal year, (b) the current assets, liabilities,
reserves and surplus or deficit of the State, (c) the debts and
funds of the State, (d) an estimate of the State's financitil
condition as of the beginning and end of the preceding fiscal
year, (e) any explanation the Governor may desire to make
as to the important features of die Budget and any sugges
tions as to methods for reduction or increase of the State's
revenue

(4) Each Budget shall embrace an estimate of all
appropriations 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 Depart
ment, (c) for the Judiciary Department, as provided by law,
as certified to the Governor, (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 and under the Constitution and laws of the State,
(f) for the establishment and maintenance throughout the
State of a thorough and efficient system ofpubhc schools
in conformity with Article 8 of the Constitution and with
the laws of the State, and (g) for such other purposes as are
set forth in the Constitution or laws of the State

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(5) The Governor shall deliver to the presiding

officer of each House the Budget and a bill for all the
proposed appropriations 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 Gover
nor 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 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 modification of or a substitute for any item
of said bill such amendment or supplement may affect

(5a) The Budget and the Budget Bill as submitted
by the Governor to the General Assembly shall have a
figure for the total of all proposed appropriations and a
figure for the total of all estimated revenues available to
pay the appropriations, and the figure tor total proposed
appropriations shall not exceed the figure for total esti
mated revenues Neither the Governor in submitting an
amendment or supplement to the Budget Bill nor the
General Assembly in amending the Budget Bill shall
thereby cause the figure for total proposed appropriations
to exceed the figure for total estimated revenues, including
any revisions, and in the Budget Bill as enacted the figure
for total estimated revenues always shall be equal to or
exceed the figure for total appropriations

(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 estab
hshment 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 Consutution thereof, and the General
Assembly may amend the bill by increasing or diminishing
the items therein relating to the General Assembly, and by
increasing or diminishing the items therein relating to the
judiciary, but except as hereinbefore 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 Jus 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
execuuve 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
consideration thereof, and to answer inquiries relative
thereto

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(8) Supplementary Appropriation Bill Fither House

may consider other appropriations but both Houses shall
not finally act upon such appropriations until after the
Budget Bill has been finally acted upon b) 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 work, object or purpose therein stated and
called herein a Supplementary Appropriation Bill, (b)
Each Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall provide the
revenue necessary to pay the appropriation thereby made
by a tax, direct or indirect, to be levied and collected as
shall be directed in said bill, (c) No Supplementary Ap
propnation 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