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SEC. 14. The doors of each House and of committees of the
whole shall be open, except when the business is such as ought
to be kept secret.
SEC. 15. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings,
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. 16. Neither House shall, without the consent of the other,
adjourn for more than three day s; 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. 17. Time 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 legislature
shall embrace but one subject, and that shall be described in the
title, and no law or section of law shall be revived, amended or
repealed by reference to its title or section only; and it shall be
the duty of the legislature at the fist session after the adoption of
this constitution, to appoint two commissioners learned in the law,
to revise and codify the laws of this State; and the said commis
sioners shall report the said cde, so formed, to the legislature, within
a time to be by it determined, for its appmoval, amendment or rejec
tion, and if adopted after the revision and codification of the said
laws, it shall be the duty of the legislature in amending any aiticle
or section thereof to enact the same as the said article or section
would read when amended. And whenever the legislature shall
enact any public general law, not amendatory of any section or
article in the said code, it shall be the duty of the legislature to
enact the same in Articles and Sections, in the same manner as the
said code may be arranged; and to provide for the publication of
all additions and alterations which may be made to the said code,
and it shall also be the duty of the legislature to appoint one or
more commissioners learned in the law, whose duty it shall be, to
revise, simplify and abmidge the rules of practice,pleadings, forms
of conveyancing, anti proceedings of the Courts of Record in this
State.
SEC. 18. Any bill may originate in either House of the Gen
eral Assembly, and be altered, amended or rejected by the
other, but no bill shall originate in either House during the last
three days of the session or become a law, until it be read on
three different d.ys of the sessson in each House, unless three
fourths of the members of the House, where such bill is
pending, shall so deternine.
SEC. 19. 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 ayes and noes be recorded.
SEC. 20. No money shall be d rawn from the Treasury of the
State, except in accordance with an appropriation made by law,