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Constitution, or the provision made by the laws of the State for the estab-
lishment aad maintenance of a system of public schools, or the payment of
any salaries required to be paid by the State of Maryland by the Con-
stitution thereof; and the General Assembly may amend the bill by increas-
ing or diminishing the items therein relating to the General 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 Governor.

Fourth. The Governor and such representatives of the executive depart-
ments, boards, officers and commissions of the State expending or applying
for State's moneys, as have been designated by the Governor for this pur-
pose, 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 appropriation
shall be valid except in accordance with the provisions following: (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 Supplementary Appro-
priation 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 Constitution and thereafter all the provisions of said Section shall
apply.

Nothing in this amendment shall be construed as preventing the Legis-
lature from passing at any time in accordance with the provisions 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 Con-
stitution an appropriation bill to provide for the payment of any obliga-
tion 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, the
Governor may, and it shall be his duty to issue a proclamation, extending
the session for such further period as may in his judgment be necessary for