SEC. 14. The General Assembly shall meet on the first
Wednesday of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
and on the same day in every second year. thereafter, and at
no other time, unless convened by Proclamation of the Gov-
ernor.

SEC. 15. The General Assembly may continue its session
so long as in its judgment the public interest may require,
for a period not longer than ninety days; and each member
thereof shall receive a compensation of five dollars per diem
for every day he shall attend the session, but not for such
days as he may be absent, unless absent on account of sick-
ness or by leave of the House of which he is a member; and
he shall also receive such mileage as may be allowed by law,
not exceeding twenty cents per mile; and the presiding officer
of each House shall receive an additional compensation of
three dollars per day. When the General Assembly shall be
convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session shall
not continue longer than thirty days, and in such case the
compensation shall be the same as herein prescribed.

SEC. 16. No book, or other printed matter, not appertain-
ing to the business of the session, shall be purchased or sub-
scribed for, for the use of the members of the General As-
sembly, or be distributed among them, at the public expense.

SEC. 17. No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as such,
notwithstanding he may thereafter resign, shall during the
whole period of time for which he was elected be eligible to
any office which shall have been created, or the salary or
profits of which shall have been increased, during such term.

SEC. 18. No Senator or Delegate shall be liable in any civil
action or criminal prosecution whatever for words spoken in
debate.

SEC. 19. Each House shall be judge of the qualifications
and elections of its members, as prescribed by the Constitu-
tion and laws of the State; shall appoint its own officers, de-
termine the rules of its own proceedings, 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.

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 mem-
bers in such manner and under such penalties as each House
may prescribe.