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ings, punish a member for disorderly or disrespectful
behavior, and with the consent of two-thirds of its whole
number of members elected, expel a member; but no
member shall be expelled a second time for the same
offence.
Coviagton v. Buffett, 90 Maryland, 569. |
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Sec. 20. A majority of the whole number of members
elected to each House shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business; but a smaller number may
adjourn from. day to day, and compel the attendance of
absent members in such manner and under such penal-
ties as each House may prescribe. |
Quorum. |
Sec. 21. The doors of each House and of the Commit-
tee of the Whole shall be open, except when the busi-
ness is such as ought to be kept secret. |
Sessions to be
open. |
Sec. 22. Each House shall keep a Journal of its
proceedings, and cause the same to be published. The
yeas and nays of members on any question shall, at the
call of any five of them in the House of Delegates, or
one in the Senate, be entered on the Journal. |
Journals to be
published.
Yeas and nays |
Sec. 23. Each House may punish by imprisonment,
during the session of the General Assembly, any person
not a member, for disrespectful or disorderly behavior in
its presence, or for obstructing any of its proceedings, or
any of its officers in the execution of their duties; pro-
vided, such imprisonment shall not at any one time
exceed ten days. |
Disorderly
persons. |
Sec. 24. The House of Delegates may inquire, on the
oath of witnesses, into all complaints, grievances and |
Powers of
House. |
offences, as the Grand Inquest of the State, and may
commit any person for any crime to the public jail, there
to remain until discharged by due course of law. They |
Grand inquest |
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 expendi-
tures of the money of the State, the General Assembly
shall create, at every session thereof, a Joint Standing |
May call for
persons and
papers.
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