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MARYLAND MANUAL. [ART. III

Contracts.

Committee of the Senate and House of Delegates, 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 the library, and all expendi-
tures 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.
Marshall v. Harwood, 7 Md. 466.

Adjournment.

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.

Impeachment.

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 shall be tried by the Senate, and
when sitting for that purpose the Senators shall be on
oath or affirmation to do j ustice according to the law and
the evidence; but no person shall be convicted without
the concurrence of two-thirds of all the Senators elected.

Bills.

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 deter-
mine by yeas and nays; and no bill shall be read a third
time until it shall have been actually engrossed for a
third reading.

Passage of
bills.

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.