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shall appoint its own officers, determine the rules of its own
proceedings, punish a member for disorderly or disrespectful
behavior and with the consent of two-thirds of its whole
number of members elected, expel a member; but no member
shall be expelled a second time for the same offence.

Sec. 19. A majority of the whole number of members
elected t? each House, shall constitute a quorum for the trans-
action of business, but a smaller number may adjourn from
day to day and compel the attendance of absent members, in
such manner, and under such penalties, as each House may
prescribe

Sec. 20. The doors of each House and of Committees of
the Whole shall be open, except when the businesses such
as ought to be kept secret. ^

Sec. 21. Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceed-
ings, and cause the same to be published. The yeas and
nays of members on any question shall, at the call of any five
of them in the House of Delegates, or one in the Senate, be
entered on the Journal.

Sec. 22. Each House may punish by imprisonment, during
the session of the General Assembly, any person not a mem-
ber, for disrespectful or disorderly behavior in its presence,
or for obstructing any of its proceedings, or any of its officers
in the execution of their duties; provided such imprisonment
shall not, at any one time, exceed ten days.

Sec. 23, The House of Delegates may inquire, on the oath
of witnesses, into all complaints, grievances and offences, as
the Grand Inquest of the State, and may commit any person
for any crime to the public jail, there to remain until dis-
charged by due course of law; they may examine and pass all
accounts of the State, relating either to the collection or ex-
penditure of the revenue, and appoint auditors to state and
adjust the same; they may call for all public or official papers
and records, and send for persons whom they may judge ne-
cessary in the course of their inquiries concerning affairs re-
lating to the public interest, and may direct all office bonds,
which shall be made payable to the State, to be sued for any
breach thereof.

Sec. 24. Neither House shall, without the consent of the
other, adjourn for more than three days at any one time; nor
to any other place than that in which the House shall be sit-
ting, without the concurrent vote of two-thirds of the mem-
bers present.

Sec. 25. The House of Delegates shall have the sole power