146 MARYLAND MANUAL.
RULE L.

The officers of the House shall be one Chief Clerk, one
Reading Clerk, one Journal Clerk, one Sergeant-at-arms,
one Postmaster, one Assistant Postmaster, Five Assistant
Clerks, one Keeper of Cloak Room, three Doorkeepers,
three Pages, five Polders, three Chaplains.

The Speaker shall appoint a suitable person to be Assist-
ant Janitor, also a Messenger to the Printer, and Messenger
to the Speaker, and shall provide, by appointment, such
employes as may be found requisite and necessary for the
care and custodianship of the rotunda, committee rooms
and lavatory.

The Speaker shall appoint additional assistant engrossing
and committee clerks, as the same may be necessary here-
after, not to exceed six, to be paid from date of appoint-
ment.

The Speaker shall assign and re-assign the employes of
the House from one position to another, as their capacity and
'efficiency may indicate, and shall have power to suspend
from duty without pay, for neglect of duty or other mis-
conduct in his discretion.

He shall also select and appoint a private secretary, who
shall be a stenographer and typewriter, to attend to the
official correspondence and clerical work connected with
the office of Speaker.

The Chairmen of the Committees on Ways and Means
and Claims shall appoint a clerk each to their respective
committees. The compensation of all the clerks and
employes shall be five dollars a day, except the Chief Clerk,
Reading Clerk and Journal Clerk, who shall be paid ten
dollars a day; the Clerk to the Committee on Claims and
Chief Engrossing Clerk, six dollars a day each.

The Pages shall be required, when necessary, to assist the
folders and the officers of the House in such duties as may
be assigned to them, when not actually engaged in the
active duties of the office of Page.