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mile; and the presiding officer of each House 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 apper-
taining to the business of the session, shall be purchased,
or subscribed for, for the use of the members of the Gen-
eral Assembly, or be distributed among them, at the pub-
lic expense.
SEC. 17. No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as
such, notwithstanding he may thereafter resign, shall
during the whole period of time for which he 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
spoken in debate.
SEC. 19. Each House shall be judge of the qualifica-
tions and elections of its members as prescribed by the
Constitution and laws of the State; shall appoint its own
officers, determine the rules of its own proceedings, pun-
ish a member for disorderly or disrespectful behavior, and
with the consent 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.
SEC. 20. A majority of the whole number of members
elected to each House shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business; but a smaller number may ad-
journ from day to day, and compel the attendance of ab-
sent members, in such manner, and under such penal-
ties, as each House may prescribe.
SEC. 21. The doors of each House, and of the Commit-
tee of the Whole, shall be open, except when the business
is such as ought to be kept secret.
SEC. 22. Each House shall keep a Journal of its pro-
ceedings, and cause the same to be published. The yeas
and nays of members on any question shall, at the call of
any five of them in the House of Delegates, or one in the
Senate, be Entered on the Journal.
SEC. 23. Each House may punish by imprisonment,
during the session of the General Assembly, any person,
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