ART. III.] CONSTITUTION.
certain prevention or correction of the abases in the ex-
penditures of the money of the State, the General Assembly
shall create, at every session thereof, a joint standing com-
mittee of the Senate and House of Delegates, who shall have
power to send for persons and examine them on oath and |
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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 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.
Marshall v. Harwood, 7 MS., 466.
SEC. 25. Neither House shall, without the consent of the |
Contracts. |
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 |
Adjournment. |
power of impeachment in all cases; but a majority of all the
members elected must concur in the impeachment. All im-
peachments shall 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 |
Impeach-
ment. |
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 bill
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 |
Bills. |
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. |
Passage of
bills. |
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 |
Style of laws.
Mode of en-
actment.
Limitations.
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