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1t shall ne their duty to appear and he heard
Win respect 70 any budget bill during the
cons!Geratlon thereof, and to answer inquir-
les relative theI etO.
| sub Section c: Simultaneously Annronria
ton Bills.
Neither house shall consider other appro-
prlations until the Budget Bill has been
| finally acted upon by bOta houses. and no
such other appropriation shall be valid ex-
| cept in accordance with the provisions fol-
| ioWmS: q Every such appropriation shall
be embodied in separate bill limited to
some single work, object or purdose therein
stated and called herein a Supplementary
| Appropriation Bill; "a Each SuppIemen-
l tarN Appropriation Bill shall provide the
| revenue necessary to pay the appropriation
| th-leDy made by tax, direct or indirect. to
! be iaid and collected as shall be directeI in
I said Bill 81 No Supplementary AuprODria-
| tlon Blll shah become law unless 1t be
| passed Ia each house by a vote of a major
/ lty Of the whole number of the members
elected; and in the yeas and nays recorded on
Us hHal passage; a. Each Supplementary
| Appropriation Bill shall be presented to the
| Governor OF the State as provided in Section
| u of Article ii Of the Constitution and
| thereafter all the provisions of said section
shall apply.
| Nothing in this amendment shall be con-
strued as preventing the legislature from
Il passlng'at any time in accordance with the
1 PROVISIONS of Section ?, Of Article III of
| the Constitution and subject to the Cover ,
htis power OF approval as provided in Sec :
ton l. ~ Article ii of the Constitution an
| appropriation bill TO provide for tile nav
meut Ot any obligation OF the state OF Marv-
land Withi, the protection of Section 10 of
Alttc.e OF the Constitution Of the United
| subsection D: General Provisions:
First. II the Budget Bill shall not have
been tna!4y acted upon by the Legislature
three days before the expiration OF its regu-
/ lar session, the Governor may, and it shall
be his duty to issue proclamation extend
lns the session for such further period as
may. in his Judgment. he necessary TOR the
passage OF such Bill: but no other matter
than such Bin shall be considered curing
such extended session except provision for
the cost thereof.
second The Governor for the purpose of
making up his bud gets shall have the power,
, and it shall be his duty, to require from the
proper state Otcials, including herein all
q executive departments. all executive and adj
mlnistrative offices, bureaus boards, com
missions and agencies expanding or super
. NlSlng the expenditure Of and all institu-
tons applying for state moneys and appro-
pratlOnS, such itemnZed estimates and
; other Information, in such form and at such
times as lie shall direct. The estimates for
the Legislative Department. certified by the
presiding officer OF each house. of the Judi
ciaTy, as provided by law, certified by the
comptroller, and for the public schools, as
E provided by law shall be transmitted to the
: Governor, in such form and at such times as
, he shall direct ana shall be included in the
p budget without revision.
The Governor may provide for public hear
lngs on all estimates and may require the
= attendance at such hearings of representa-
tlVes of all agencies, and OF all institutions
applying FOR State moneys. After such pub
! II.
and judiciary departments and for the u >
lie schools as provided by law. }s-,e
Third. The Legislature may, from time to
time, enact such laws, not Inconsistent with
this section, as may be necessary ana proper
TO carry out it provisions
} Fourth. In the event of any inconsistency
between any OF the provisions OF this Sec
ton and any of the other provisions of the
Constitution, the provisions Of this Section
Shall prevail. But nothing herein shall in
flfsff
= Of Article III OF the Constitution or of any
laws heretofore or hereafter passed in Dur-
suance thereof, or be construed as prevent
lng the Governor from calling eXtraordi-
nary sessions OF the Legislature. as provid-
ed by section Ii OF Article II, or as prevent
ing the Legislature at such extraordinary
sessions from considering any emergency
appropriations.
II any item of any appropriation bill
passed under the provisions of this Section
shall be held Invalid upon any ground such
mValiditY shall not affect the legality OF the
BIZ or OF any other item OF such Bill or Bills.
Section ,. And be it enacted by the au-
thorluY aforesaid, That the said foregoing
section hereby proposed as an amendment
to the Constitution shall at the next ensuing
general election, being the Presidential and
Congressional election, being the Presi-
Dental and Congressional, election, to be
held on the Tuesday next after the first
Monday of November nineteen hundred
and sixteen, be submitted to the legal and
qualitied voters of the state for their adop-
ton or rejection in conformity with the di-
rections contained in Article XVI of this
state, and at said election the vote on said
proposed amendment to the constitution
shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot
there shall be placed the following SYNOPSIS
OF said amendment under the caption ofr.,
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PRO h
NIDING FOR A BUDGET e
This amendment provides that the Gov.
| ernor shall present to the Legislature soon
after 1t is convened Budget giving a COM
plete plan OF proposed expenditures and es-
timated revenues for the two succeeding ifs
cal years showing clearly any surplus or de-
1cit in State funds. In these estimates he
shall make provision for the interest and
aries as fixed by law, and for the public
schools as fixed by law. With regard to
most other matters he may revise the esti-
mates presented to him either by State OIL
GERS or state aided institutions The Legis-
lature may not increase the estimates pre-
sented by the Governor or pass any addi-
tlonal appropriation act except by major
lty vote and must MAKE provision by tax for
such increase or additional appropriation.
The Legislature may not alter in any appro-
priation act the provision made by law for
the State debt, or for the judiciary, but may
reduce all other items in the Governors es-
Inmates; and the words for the ConStitu-
tional Amendment and against the Consti-
tut1onal Amendment as now provided by
law, and Immediately after said election due
returns shall be made to the Governor of
the vote in accordance with Article XVI of
the Constitution.
Approved Marah Is, 1916"
Now, therefore, l. Emerson C. Harrington,
| Governor of the State of Maryland in pur-
| suance OF the direction contained in Section
! l OF Article II of the Constitution of Mary
! and. do hereby order and direct a copy of
! this Proclamation, containing a full. true
( and correct copy of the text of said Chapter
! l59 of the Acts or Maryland of 1876 be pub
lished in at least two newspapers in each OF =
the counties of the State and in three news :
pagers published in the City of Baltimore,
one of which said newspapers in the CitE {, IF
baltimore to be printed in the Germa ! y
guage, once a week for three months 1t
preceding the General Election to be heaxffn
this State on November 7th, 1916, and at
which election the said proposed amend y
ment to the Constitution shall be submitted :
in form and manner prescribed by the Gen. Is
eral Assembly, to the legal and qualified
voters of the State for their adoption or re-
! lection.
GIVEN UNDER MY HAND
AND THE GREAT SEAL
OF THE STATE OF
| MARYLAND.
| The Great Seal DONE at the City of An
or Maryland. napolis, this twentieth
| n day of July, in the year 6
of our Lord thOus-