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to the collection or expenditure of the revenue, and ap-
point 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 necessary in the course
of their inquiry 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 sitting, without the concurrent vote of two-thirds
of the members present.
Sec. 22. The House of Delegates shall have the sole
power of impeachment in all cases, but a majority of all
the members elected must concur in the impeachment.
All impeachments 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 house dur-
ing 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 mem-
bers elected, and on its final passage the yeas and nays
be recorded; 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. Any 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 revived, or
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