§ 7. No money shall ever be paid out of the state treasury or any of
its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance
of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made within two
years next after the passage of such appropriation act; and every such
law making a new appropriation or continuing or reviving an
appropriation, shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the
object or purpose to which it is to be applied; and it shall not be
sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum.