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signing, refusing, or disqualified, it shall be the duty of the
Governor to issue a warrant of election to supply the vacancy
thus created, in the same manner the said Speaker or Presi-
dent might have done, during the session of the General
Assembly; provided, however, that unless a meeting of the
General Assembly may intervene, the election thus ordered
to fill such vacancy, shall be held on the day of the ensuing
election for Delegates and Senators.
Sec. 14. The General Assembly shall meet on the first
Wednesday of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
and on the same day in every second year thereafter, and
at no other time, unless convened by Proclamation of the Gov-
ernor.
Sec. 15. The General Assembly may continue its session so
long, as, in its judgment, the public interest may require, for
a period not longer than ninety days; and each member
thereof, shall receive a compensation of five dollars per diem,
for every clay he shall attend the session; but not for such
days as he may be absent, unless absent on account of sick-
ness, or by leave of the House of which he is a member; and
he shall also receive such mileage as may be allowed by Law,
not exceeding twenty cents per mile; and the presiding offi-
cer of each Ilouse shall receive an additional compensation of
three dollars per day. When the General Assembly shall be
convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session shall
not continue longer than thirty days; and in such case
the compensation shall be the same as herein prescribed.
Sec. 16. No book, or other printed matter, not appertain-
ing to the business of the session, shall bo purchased, or sub-
scribed for, for the use of the members of the General As-
sembly, or be distributed among them, at the public expense.
Sec. 17. No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as such,
notwithstanding he may thereafter resign, shall during the
whole period of the for which ho was elected, be eligible to
any office, which shall have been created, or the salary or
profits of which shall have been increased during such term.
Sec. 18. No Senator, or Delegate shall be liable in any
civil action, or criminal prosecution whatever, for words spo-
ken in debate.
Sec. 19. Each House shall be judge of the qualifications
and elections of its members as prescribed by the Con-
stitution and Laws of the State; shall appoint its own officers,
determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish a member
for disorderly or disrespectful behaviour, and with the con-
sent 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.
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