100 MARYLAND MANUAL.

The Legislature may continue in regular session ninety days.
Each member shall receive five dollars per diem for every day
he shall attend the session, and for such days as he may be absent
for sickness, or by leave of the house of which he is a member.
He shall receive such mileage as may be allowed by law, not
exceeding twenty cents per mile. The presiding officer of each
House shall receive an additional compensation of three dollars
per day. When the General Assembly is convened in extra
session, the session shall not continue longer than thirty days,
and the per diem and mileage shall be the same as in regular
session. (Article III, section 15, Constitution. )

No book or other printed matter, not appertaining to the busi-
ness of the session, shall be purchased or subscribed for, for the
use of the members of the General Assembly, or be distributed
among them, at the public expense. (Article II, section 16,
Constitution. )

No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as such, notwith-
standing 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. (Article III, section 17,
Constitution. )

No Senator or Delegate shall be liable in any civil action or
criminal prosecution whatever for words spoken in debate. (Arti-
cle, III, section 18, Constitution. )

Each House shall be the judge of the qualifications and
elections of its own members; shall appoint its own officers;
determine the rule of its own proceedings, punish a mem-
ber 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. (Article III, section 19, Constitution, )

A quorum is a majority of members elected to each House.
A minority may adjourn from day to day and compel the attend-
ance of members under such penalties as each House may pre-
scribe. (Article III, section 20, Constitution. )

The sessions of the House shall be open except when the
business is such as ought to be kept secret. (Article III, section
21, Constitution.

Each House shall keep and publish a journal of its proceed-
ings. Five members of the House and one of the Senate may
require a yea and nay vote in their respective bodies. (Article
III, section 22, Constitution. )

Disorderly persons, not members, who obstruct business or act
in a disrespectful manner, may be imprisoned by either House