I?0 MARYLAND MANUAL.

The .Speaker shall appoint additional assistant engrossing
and committee clerks, as the same may be necessary here-
after, not to exceed six, to be paid from date of appointment.

The Speaker shall assign and re-assign the employees of the
House from one position to another, as their capacity and
efficiency may indicate, and shall have power to suspend
from duty without pay, for neglect of duty or other miscon-
duct in his discretion.

He shall also select and appoint a private secretary, who
shall be a stenographer and typewriter, to attend to the
official correspondence and clerical work connected with the
office of Speaker.

The Chairmen of the Committees on Ways and Means and
Claims shall appoint a clerk each to their respective com-
mittees. The compensation of all the clerks and employees
shall be five dollars a day, except the Chief Clerk, Reading
Clerk and Journal Clerk, who shall be paid ten dollars a day;
the Clerk to the Committee on Claims and Chief Engrossing
Clerk, six dollars a day each.

The Pages shall be required, when necessary, to assist the
folders and the officers of the House in such duties as ma}^
be assigned to them, when not actually engaged in the active
duties of the office of Page.

No extra compensation shall be allowed to any member or
officer of the House during the present session, except to the
members of the Committee on Engrossed Bills and Resolu-
tions, with such additional members of said committee as may
be authorized to be appointed at or about the close of the
session, and to the clerks of said committee, and such ad-
ditional clerks as may be authorized to be appointed at or
about the close of the session, and such others as may be
required to remain in attendance upon the business of the
House after final adjournment; but no extra compensation
shall be paid in any event, except in pursuance of resolution
or order of the House, to be reported upon by its appropriate
committee, to be passed by aye and nay vote, by a majority
of all the members elected to the House, which said order or
resolution shall also fix the amount that shall be allowed.