[Art. 3, Sec. 14] MARYLAND MANUAL 313

been affiliated in the County or District from which he or
she was elected, provided that the appointee shall be of the
same political party as the person whose office is to be filled;

and it shall be the duty of the Governor to make said ap-
pointment within fifteen days after the submission thereof
to him. In the event there is no State Central Committee
in the County or District from which said vacancy is to be
filled, the Governor shall within fifteen days after the oc-
currence of such vacancy appoint a person who is otherwise
properly qualified to hold the office of delegate or senator in
such District or County. In every case when any person is
so appointed by the Governor, his appointment shall be
deemed to be for the unexpired term of the person whose
office has become vacant.¹

'SEC. 14. The General Assembly shall meet on the first
Wednesday of January, nineteen hundred and forty-nine,
and on the same day in every second year thereafter, and
on the first Wednesday in February, nineteen hundred and
fifty, and on the same day in every second year thereafter,
and at no other time, unless convened by Proclamation of
the Governor.

^EC. 15. The General Assembly may continue its ses-
sion so long as in its judgment the public interest may
require, for a period not longer than ninety days in odd
years and thirty days in even years; and on and after
January 1, 1949, each member thereof shall receive a com-
pensation of Eighteen Hundred Dollars ($1,800.00) per
annum, payable quarterly, with a deduction of Fifteen Dol-
lars (15.00) per diem for each day of unexcused absence
from any session; and he shall also receive such mileage
as may be allowed by law, not exceeding Twenty Cents per
mile; and the presiding officers of each House shall receive
an additional compensation of Two Hundred and Fifty
Dollars ($250) per annum. In any of said thirty-day ses-
sions in even years, the General Assembly shall consider
no bills other than (1) Bills having to do with budgetary,
revenue and financial matters of the State Government,
(2) legislation dealing with an acute emergency, and (3)
legislation in the general public welfare. When the General
Assembly shall be convened by Proclamation of the Gov-
ernor, the session shall not continue longer than thirty
days, but an⁴ additional compensation other than mileage

'Thus amended by Chapter 584, Acts of 1935, ratified November 3, 1936.
³ Modified by Article XVII, Section 6.

8 Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts o( 1947, ratified November 2, 1948.
« The word "no" evidently intended.