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tution shall be authorized to expend any appropriation or part
of an appropriation which the Governor shall reduce as
hereinabove provided.

10. In any case where a lump sum is appropriated to any
State department, board, commission, officer or institution,
such department, board, commission, officer or institution
shall be required to submit to the Board of Public Works
within ninety days following the adjournment of the Gen-
eral Assembly, a detailed budget schedule in the usual form,
showing the proposed apportionment and disbursement of
such lump sum appropriation by such department, board,
commission, officer or institution. No part of such lump sum
appropriation may be expended unless and until such budget
schedule is approved by the Board of Public Works.

11. Whenever in any budget bill an increase or decrease
is made in any salaries fixed by any Act of the General As-
sembly, heretofore enacted, the passage of such budget bill
shall operate as an amendment to such Act to the extent of
such increase or decrease, within the limits permitted by the
Constitution of Maryland.

12. No department, board, commission, officer or institu-
tion of the State shall at any time spend in excess of the total
amount of its appropriation, and no department, board, com-
mission, officer or institution shall spend in excess of the
amount of any item in its appropriation except upon compli-
ance with the provisions of Section 8 hereof. If any such
department, board, commission, officer or institution shall
violate the provisions of this section, there shall be no reim-
bursement of such excess nor shall there be any liability or
obligation upon the State to make any appropriation there-
after to meet such deficit. Any officer or employee of the
State, or the members of any department, board, commission,
institution or agency, who shall have made any such excessive
expenditure, shall be deemed guilty of neglect of official duty,
and shall be subject to removal therefor.

Department of Budget and Procurement.

13. The Department of Budget and Procurement is hereby
created under the direction, supervision and control of a Di-
rector of Budget and Procurement, who shall be appointed
by the Governor and hold office as long as he performs his
duties in a competent manner. He shall be removable by
the Governor only in the manner by which civil officers may be
removed by the Governor under the provisions of Section 15,
Article 2 of the Constitution, and shall receive such salary