J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1001

empowered to revise the proposed budget and any part thereof by
increasing, decreasing, eliminating or adding items provided that
there shall be no consolidation of items in such manner as to reduce
the detailed statement of the appropriations. They shall further be
authorized to revise the schedule of anticipated receipts and esti-
mated rates in such manner as they may deem necessary.

(b) No later than June 1st in each year, or on the first day there-
after, if June 1st be a legal holiday, the Board of Estimates of Cecil
County shall by a majority vote adopt the final budget, schedule of
anticipated receipts, fix the tax rates and impose the levy for the
ensuing fiscal year. Such levy together with any surplus county
funds and all other revenues from all other sources as shown by the
schedule of anticipated receipts, must be sufficient to cover the total
appropriations in the budget. The final budget, schedule of antici-
pated receipts and levies so adopted shall be signed by a majority
of the Board of Estimates, certified by their Clerk, and at least one
copy kept on record at the office of the County Commissioners, open
to public inspection during regular business hours throughout the
fiscal year which it covers.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 28, 1959.

CHAPTER 664
(House Bill 591)

AN ACT to propose an amendment to Section 17 of Article II of
the Constitution of Maryland, title "Executive Department", de-
leting LIMITING THE provision for further consideration of Bill
CERTAIN BILLS by General Assembly in event Bill is vetoed by
Governor following adjournment of General Assembly or which
fails to become law by reason of not having been signed by Gov-
ernor following adjournment of General Assembly; and submitting
this amendment to the legally qualified voters of the State for
their adoption or rejection.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
(Three-fifths of all the Members elected to each of the two Houses
concurring), That the following section be and the same is hereby
proposed as an amendment to Section 17 of Article II of the Con-
stitution of Maryland, title "Executive Department", the same, if
adopted by the legally qualified voters of the State, as herein provided,
to become a part of the Constitution of Maryland:

17. To guard against hasty or partial legislation and encroach-
ments of the Legislative Department upon the co-ordinate Executive

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill,