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and records, and send for persons whom they may judge
necessary, in the course of their inquiries, concerning affairs
relating 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. 21. 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. 22. The House of Delegates shall have the sole power
of impeachment in all cases, but a majority of all the mem-
bers elected must concur in the impeachment. All impeach-
ments shall be tried by the Senate, and when sitting for that
purpose, the Senators shall be on oath or affirmation to do
justice according to the law and the evidence, but no person
shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of
all the Senators elected.
Sec. 23. Any bill may originate in either House of the
General Assembly, and be altered, amended or rejected by the
other ;but no bill shall originate in either Housfi during the
last ten 'days of the session, nor shall any bill become a law
until it be read on three different days of the session in each
House, nor shall the rules be suspended in either of the
above provisions, unless two-thirds of the members elected
in the House, where such bill is pending shall so determine
by yeas and nays.
Sec. 24. No bill shall become a law, unless it be passed in
each House by a majority of the whole number of members
elected, and on its final passage, the yeas and nays be record-
ed; nor shall any resolution requiring the action of both
Houses be passed except in the same manner.
Sec. 25. The style of all laws of this State, shall be "Be it
enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland," and all
laws shall be passed by original bill; and every law enacted
by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject, and
that shall be described in its title; and no law nor section of
a law shall be received or amended by reference to its title or
section only; and it shall be the duty of the General As-
sembly in amending any article, or section of the Code of
Laws of this State, to enact the same as the said article or
section would read when amended; and whenever the Gen-
eral Assembly shall enact any Public General Law, not
amendatory of any section or article in the said Code, it shall
be the duty of the General Assembly to enact the same in
articles and sections in the same manner as the Code is ar-
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