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ART. III] LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. 11
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 therein relating to the Gen-
eral Assembly, and by increasing 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 his term of office; and such bill when and as passed by both
houses shall be a law immediately without further action by the Gov-
ernor.
Fourth. The Governor and such representatives of the executive
departments, boards, officers and commissions of the State expending
or applying for State's moneys, as have been designated by the Gov-
ernor for this purpose, shall have the right, and when requested by
either house of the Legislature, 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.
Sub-Section C: Supplementary Appropriation Bills:
Neither house shall consider other appropriations until the Budget
Bill has been finally acted upon by both houses, and no such other ap-
propriation shall be valid except in accordance with the provisions fol-
lowing: (1) 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; (a) Each Supple-
mentary Appropriation Bill shall provide the revenue necessary to pay
the appropriation thereby made by a tax, direct or indirect, to be laid
and collected as shall be directed in said Bill; (3) 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; (4) Each
Supplementary Appropriation Bill shall be presented to the Governor
of the State as provided in Section 17 of Article II of the Constitu-
tion aiid thereafter all the provisions of said Section shall apply.
Nothing in this amendment shall be construed as preventing the
Legislature from passing at any time in accordance with the provi-
sions of Section 28 of Article III of the Constitution and subject to
the Governor's power of approval as provided in Section 17 of Article
II of the Constitution an appropriation bill to provide for the pay-
ment of any obligation of the State of Maryland within the protection
of Section 10 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States.
Sub-Section D: General Provisions:
First. If the Budget Bill shall not have been finally acted upon by
the Legislature three days before the expiration of its regular session.
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