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the General Assembly, and in going to and returning from
the same, allowing one day for every thirty-five miles such
member may reside from the place at which the General As-
sembly is convened.
Sec. 25. No Senator or Delegate shall be liable, in any
civil action or criminal prosecution whatever, for words spoke
in debate.
Sec. 26. The House of Delegates may inquire, on the oath
of witnesses, into all complaints, grievances and offences, as
the grand inquest of the State, and may commit any person
for any crime to the public jail, there to remain until dis-
charged by due course of law; they may examine and pass
all accounts of the State, relating either to the collection or
expenditure of the revenue, and appoint auditors to state and
adjust the same; they may call for all public or official pa-
pers 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 of duty.
Sec. 27. In case of death, disqualification, resignation, re-
fusal to act, expulsion or removal from the county or city for
which he shall have been elected, of any person who shall
have been chosen as a Delegate or Senator, or in case of a
tie between two or more such qualified persons, a warrant of
election shall be issued by the Speaker of the House of Dele-
gates or President of the Senate, as the case may be, for the
election of another person in his place, of which election not
less than ten days notice shall be given, exclusive of the day
of the publication of the notice and of the day of election;
and in case of such resignation or refusal to act, being com-
municated in writing to the Governor by the person making
it, or if such death occur during the legislative recess, and
more than ten days before its termination, 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 President might have done during the session of the Gen-
eral Assembly; provided, however, that unless a meeting of
the General Assembly may intervene, the election thus or-
dered to fill such vacancy shall be held on the day of the en-
suing election for Delegates and Senators.
Sec. 28. The Senators and Delegates shall receive a per
diem of five dollars, and such mileage as may be allowed by
law, and the presiding officer of each House shall be allowed
an addition of one dollar per day. No book or other printed
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