890 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 497

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.

(6) The General Assembly shall not amend the Budget Bill
so as to affect either the obligations of the State under Sec-
tion 34 of Article 3 of the Constitution, or the provisions
made by the laws of the State for the 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 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 dur-
ing 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.

(7) The Governor and such representatives of the execu-
tive 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.

(8) Supplementary Appropriation Bill. Neither House shall
consider other appropriations until the Budget Bill has been
finally acted upon by both Houses, and no such other appro-
priation shall be valid except in accordance with the provi-
sions following: (a) Every such appropriation shall be em-
bodied 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 appro-
priation thereby made a tax, direct or indirect, to be levied
and collected as shall be directed in said bill; (c) No Supple-
mentary 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; (d) Each Supplementary Ap-
propriation Bill shall be presented to the Governor of the
State as provided in Section 17 of Article 2 of the Constitu-
tion and thereafter all the provisions of said section shall
apply.