ART. III.] CONSTITUTION. 35
vention 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 Sen-
ate and House of Delegates, who shall have power to send for
persons and examine them on oath and call for public or offi- |
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cial papers and records; and whose duty it shall be to ex
amine and report upon all contracts made for printing, sta-
tionery, 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 vs. Harwood, 7 Md., 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 power |
Adjournment, |
of impeachment in all cases; but a majority of all the mem-
bers elected must concur in the impeachment. All impeach-
ments shall be tried by the Senate, and when sitting for that
purpose the Senators shall be on oath or affirmation to do jus-
tice 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-
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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 mem-
bers 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
each House by a majority of the whole number of members |
Bills |
elected, and on its final passage the yeas and nays be record-
ed; nor shall any resolution requiring the action of both
Houses be passed except in the same manner. |
Passage of
bills. |
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SEC. 29. The style of all laws of this State shall be, "Be |
Style of laws. |
it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland," and all
laws shall be passed by original bill; and every law enacted |
Mode of en-
actment. |
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by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject, and |
Limitations. |
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