136 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 28

any budget and any suggestion as to methods for the reduction
or increase of the State's revenue.

"Second—Each budget shall be divided into two parts, and
the first part shall be designated 'Governmental Appropria-
tions' and shall embrace an itemized estimate of the appro-
priations: (1) for the General Assembly as certified to the
Governor in the mariner hereinafter provided; (2) for the
Executive Department; (3) for the Judiciary Department, as
provided by law, certified to the Governor by the Comptroller;
(4) to pay and discharge the principal and interest of the
debt of the State of Maryland in conformity with Section 34
of Article III of the Constitution, and all laws enacted in
pursuance thereof; (5) for the salaries payable by the State
under the Constitution and laws of the State; (6) for the
establishment and maintenance throughout the State of a
thorough and efficient system of public schools in conformity
with Article VIII of the Constitution and with the laws of the
State; (7) for such other purposes as are set forth in the
Constitution of the State.

"Third—The second part shall be designated 'General Appro-
priations, ' and shall include all other estimates of appropria-
tions.

"The Governor shall deliver to the presiding officer of each
House the budgets and a Bill for all the proposed appropria-
tions of the budgets clearly itemized and classified; and the
presiding officer of each House shall promptly cause said Bill
to be introduced therein, and such Bill shall be known as the
'Budget Bill. ' The Governor may, before final action thereon
by the General Assembly, amend or supplement either of said
budgets by delivering such an amendment or supplement to the
presiding officers of both Houses; and such amendment or sup-
plement shall thereby become a part of said Budget Bill as
an addition to the items of said Bill or as a modification of
or a substitute for any item of said Bill such amendment or
supplement may affect.

"The General Assembly shall not amend the Budget Bill so

as to affect either the obligations of the State under Section 34

of Article III of the Constitution, or the provision made by

the laws of the State for the establishment and maintenance

of a system of public schools, or the payment of any salaries

required to be paid by the State of Maryland by the Cons t i

tution thereof; and the General Assembly may amend the Bill

by increasing or diminishing the items therein relating to the

- General Assembly, and by increasing the items therein relating;