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 Delegates, 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 day's notice shall be given
exclusive of the day of the publication of the notice and the
day of election; and if during the recess of the Legislature,
and more than ten days before its termination, such death
shall occur, or such resignation, refusal to act or disqualifica-
tion be communicated in writing to the Governor by the per-
son so resigning, refusing or disqualified, 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 General
Assembly; provided, however, that unless a meeting of the
General Assembly may intervene, the election thus ordered
to fill such vacancy shall be held on the day of the ensuing
election for Delegates and Senators.

SEC. 14. The General Assembly shall meet on the first
Wednesday of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
and on the same day in every second year thereafter, and
at no other time, unless convened by Proclamation of the
Governor.

SEC. 15. The General Assembly may continue its session
so long as in its judgment the public interest may require
for a period not longer than ninety days; and each member
thereof shall receive a compensation of five dollars per diem
for every day he shall attend the session, but not for such
days as he may be absent, unless absent on account of sick-
ness or by leave of the House of which he is a member;
and he shall also receive such mileage as may be allowed by
law, not exceeding twenty cents per mile; and the presiding
officer of each House shall receive an additional compensation
of three dollars per day. When the General Assembly shall
be convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session
shall not continue longer than thirty days, and in such case
the compensation shall be the same as herein prescribed.

SEC. 16. No book, or other printed matter, not appertain-
ing to the business 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.

SEC. 17. No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as such
notwithstanding he may hereafter 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