88 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND [Art. 3]

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
the passage of such Bill; but no other matter than such Bill shall be con-
sidered during such extended session except a provision for the cost thereof.

Second. The Governor for the purpose of making up his budgets shall
have the power, and it shall be his duty, to require from the proper State
officials, including herein all executive departments, all executive and ad-
ministrative offices, bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies expending or
supervising the expenditure of, and all institutions applying for State
moneys and appropriations, such itemized estimates and other information,
in such form and at such times as he shall direct. The estimates for the
legislative department, certified by the presiding officer of each house, of
the judiciary, as provided by law, certified by the Comptroller, and for the
public schools, as provided by law, shall be transmitted to the Governor,
in such form and at such times as he shall direct, and shall be included in
the budget without revision.

The Governor may provide for public hearings on all estimates and may
require the attendance at such hearings of representatives of all agencies,
and of all institutions applying for State moneys. After such public hear-
ings he may in his discretion revise all estimates except those for the
legislative and judiciary departments, and for the public schools as pro-
vided by law.

Third. The Legislature may, from time to time, enact such laws, not
inconsistent with this Section, as may be necessary and proper to carry
out its provisions.

Fourth. In the event of any inconsistency between any of the provisions
of this Section and any of the other provisions of the Constitution, the
provisions of this Section shall prevail. But nothing herein shall in any