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 Dele-
gates, 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 pur-
chases for the public offices and library, and all expenditures
therein, and upon all matters of alleged abuse in expenditures
to which their attention may be called by resolution of either
House of the General Assembly.

SEC. 23. 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 evidence; but no
person shall be convicted without the concurrence 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
two-thirds of the members elected to the House where such
bill is pending shall so determine by yeas and nays; and no
hill shall be read a third time until it shall have been actually
engrossed for a third reading.

SEC. 28. No bill shall become a law unless it be passed in
each House by a majority of the whole number of members
elected, and on its final passage the yeas and nays be recorded;
nor shall any resolution requiring the action of both Houses
be passed except in the same manner.

SEC. 29. The style of all laws of this State shall be, "Be
it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland:" and all
laws shall be passed by original bill; and every law enacted
by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject, and