Sec. 13. A majority of each House
shall constitute a quorum for the trans-
action of business, but a smaller number
may adjourn from day to day, and com-
pel the attendance of absent members in
such manner and under such penalties
as each House may prescribe.
Sec. 14. The doors of each House
and of committees of the whole shall be
open, except when the business is such
as ought to be kept secret.
Sec. 15. Each House shall keep a jour-
nal 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 Sen-
ate, be entered on the journal.
Sec. 16. Neither House shall, with-
out the consent of the other, adjourn
for more than three days; nor to any
other place than that in which the
House shall be sitting, without the con-
current vote of two-thirds of the mem-
bers present.
Sec. 17. 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 Legislature
shall embrace but one subject, and that
shall be described in the title, and no
law or section of law shall be revived,
amended or repealed by reference to its
title or section only; and it shall be the
duty of the Legislature, at the first ses-
sion after the adoption of this constitu-
tion, to appoint two commissioners
learned in the law, to revise and codify
the laws of this State; and the said com-
missioners shall report the said code, so
formed, to the Legislature, within a time
to be by it determined for its approval,
amendment, or rejection; and, if
adopted after the revision and codifica-
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tion of the said laws, it shall be the duty
of the Legislature, in amending any
article or section thereof, to enact the
same as the said article or section would
read when amended. And whenever the
Legislature shall enact any public gen-
eral law, not amendatory of any section
or article in the said code, it shall be the
duty of the Legislature to enact the same
in articles and sections, in the same man-
ner as the said code may be arranged;
and to provide for the publication of all
additions and alterations which may be
made to the said code, and it shall also
be the duty of the Legislature to appoint
one or more commissioners learned in
the law, whose duty it shall be to revise,
simplify, and abridge the rules of prac-
tice, pleadings, forms of conveyancing,
and proceedings of the Courts of record,
in this State.
Sec. 18. 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 three days
of the session, or become a law, until it
be read on three different days of the
session in each House, Unless three-
fourths of the members of the House,
where such bill is pending,' shall so deter-
mine.
Sec. 19. No bill shall become a law
unless it be passed in each House by a
majority of the whole number of mem-
bers elected, and on its final passage the
ayes and noes be recorded.
Sec. 20. No money shall be drawn
from the Treasury of the State, except
in accordance with an appropriation
made by law, and every such law shall
distinctly specify the sum appropriated,
and the object to which it shall be ap-
plied, provided that nothing herein con-
tained shall prevent the Legislature from
placing a contingent fund at the dis-
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