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when you say that; that is, whether the inviolacy
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of Section 3 is construed as being the appropriations
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that are made for the schools?
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MR. CASE: That would have nothing to do
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with transferring funds and they are appropriated, Mrs.
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Bothe, as 1 read it. Section 52, and particularly
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subsection 11, which we deal with this morning, only
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has to do with the Governor's right to change the bud-
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get as it is submitted.
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Now, I would think that while Mr. Perkins,
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in answer to the other part of the question, while Mr.
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Perkins is absolutely right, you cannot take University
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of Maryland funds, for example, and put it over into
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the State Law Department, you cannot take State Law
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Department appropriations and put it up in Health.
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The reason for this is a statutory provision in the
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budget law which requires funds to be channelized.
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However, the legislature, if they wanted to,
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could change that and could say, in effect, that moneys
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appropriated to the Attorney General could be used for
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the Health Department; moneys appropriated to the
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