offences, as the Grand Inquest of the State, and may com-
mit any person for any crime to the public jail, there to
remain until discharged 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 papers 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 thereof; and with the
view to the more certain prevention or correction of the
abuses in the expenditures of the money of the State, the
General Assembly shall create,-at every session thereof, a
Joint Standing Committee of the Senate and House of Del-
egates, who shall have power to send for persons and
examine them on oath, and call for public or official papers
and records; and whose duty it shall be to examine and
report upon all 'contracts made for printing, stationery, and
purchases for the public offices and library, and all expen-
ditures therein, and upon all matters of alleged abuse in
expenditures to which their attention may be called by res-
olution of either House of the General Assembly.

SEC. 25. Neither House shall, without the consent of the
other, adjourn for more than three days at any one time,
nor adjourn 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. 26. 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 must 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 evi-
dence; but no person shall beconvicted without the con-
currence of two-thirds of all the Senators elected.

SEC. 27. 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 during
the last ten days of the session, unless two-thirds of the
members elected thereto shall so determine by yeas and
nays; nor shall any bill become a law until it be read on
three different days of the session in each House, unless