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10 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. III
two budgets, one for each of the ensuing fiscal years. Each budget
shall contain a complete plan of proposed expenditures and estimated
revenues for the particular fiscal year to which it relates; and shall show
the estimated surplus or deficit of revenues at the end of such year.
Accompanying each budget shall be a statement showing: (1) The
revenues and expenditures for each of the two fiscal years next preced-
ing; (2) the current assets, liabilities, reserves and surplus or deficit
of the State; (3) the debts and funds of the State; (4) an estimate of
the State's financial condition as of the beginning and end of each of
the fiscal years covered by the two budgets above provided; (5) any
explanation the Governor may desire to make as to the important
features of any budget; and any suggestion as to methods for the reduc-
tion or increase of the State's revenue.
Second. Each budget shall be divided into two parts, and the first
part shall be designated "Governmental Appropriations" and shall
embrace an itemized estimate of the appropriations: (1) For the Gen-
eral Assembly as certified to the Governor in the manner hereinafter
provided; (2) for the Executive Department; (3) for the Judiciary
Department, as provided by law, certified to the Governor by the Comp-
troller; (4) to pay and discharge the principal and interest of the debt
of the State of Maryland in conformity with Section 34 of Article III
of the Constitution, and all laws enacted in pursuance thereof; (5) for
the salaries payable by the State under the Constitution and laws of
the State; (6) for the establishment and maintenance throughout the
State of a thorough and efficient system of public schools in conformity
with Article VIII of the Constitution and with the laws of the State;
(7) for such other purposes as are set forth in the Constitution of the
State.
Third. The second part shall be designated ''General Appropri-
ations," and shall include all other estimates of appropriations.
The Governor shall deliver to the presiding officer of each house the
budgets and a bill for all the proposed appropriations of the budgets
clearly itemized and classified; 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, before final
action thereon by the General Assembly amend or supplement either
of said budgets to correct an oversight or in case of an emergency, with
the consent of the General Assembly by delivering such an amendment
or supplement to the presiding officers of both houses; and such amend-
ment 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.
The General Assembly shall not amend the budget bill so as to affect
either the obligations of the State under Section 34 of Article III of
the Constitution, or the provision made by the laws of the State for the
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