ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1311

operate as an amendment to such Act to the extent of such in-
crease. Any item of an appropriation hereinafter made pro-
viding for any salary not fixed by the Constitution of the State
may be altered or changed with the consent of the Governor
by the filing of an amended schedule as hereinafter set out;
provided, that the salary of no officer shall be decreased during
'his term of office.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That no State depart-
ment, board, commission, officer, institution, or other agency,
shall exceed the amount of its appropriation made herein, ex-
cept 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 ex-
ceed 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 hereafter
to meet such deficit, and the officer or members of such board,

commission, department or agency, or of the governing 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 subject to
removal therefor.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the items and
amounts which are hereafter set out to show the methods of

making up any appropriation do not constitute appropriations,
but represent the initial plan of disbursement and apportion-
ment of the appropriations of which they are part. Each ap-
propriation 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 man-
ner.

The Senate of Maryland of the General Assembly of 1929
may by resolution provide for or authorize the amendment of
its schedule.

The House of Delegates of the General Assembly of 1929
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.