1240 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 300

except in the manner and to the extent .for which provision is
made in Section Three hereof. If any such State department,
board, commission, officer, institution or other agency shall so
exceed the amount of its appropriation there shall be no reim-
bursement of such excess nor shall there be any liability or

obligation upon the State to make any appropriation here-
after to meet such deficit, and the officer or the members of
such board, commission, department or agency, or of the gov-
erning body of such State institution who have made any such
excessive expenditures, shall, in the discretion of the Governor,
be deemed guilty of neglect of official duty and shall be sub-
ject to removal therefor.

SECTION 7. And be it further enacted, That the items and
amounts which are hereafter set out to show the method of mak-
ing up any appropriation do not constitute appropriations, but
represent the initial plan of disbursement and apportionment
of the appropriations of which they are part. Each appropria-
tion shall be paid out only in accordance with the schedule
therefor, if any, unless such schedule be amended within the
limits of such appropriation in the following manner:

The Senate of Maryland of the General Assembly of 1924

may by resolution provide for or authorize the amendment of
its schedule.

The House of Delegates of the General Assembly of 1924
may by resolution provide for or authorize the amendment of
its schedule.

The Governor may himself make an amended schedule, if
the same be necessary, with respect to the appropriations for
the Executive Department, and upon its transmission to the
Comptroller the appropriation for such department shall be paid
out in accordance with such amended schedule.

Any department, board, commission, institution or officer
may at any time submit in writing to the Governor an amended
schedule for the disbursement and apportionment of the appro-
priations made to it or him. If the Governor shall approve
such amended schedule he shall transmit the same, with his
certificate of approval, to the Comptroller and thereafter such
appropriations shall be paid out in accordance with said
amended schedule. Any such amended schedule so submitted
to the Governor may be withdrawn at any time before the Gov-
ernor has acted thereon. Any amended schedule approved by
the Governor may be affain amended at any time in like man-