imprisonment, during the session of the
General Assembly, any person not a
member for disrespectful or disorderly
behavior in its presence, or for obstruct-
ing any of its proceedings, or any of its
officers in the execution of their duties;
provided such imprisonment shall not,
at any one time, exceed ten days.
Sec. 23. The House of Delegates may
inquire, on the oath of witnesses, into
all complaints, grievances and 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
may examine and pass all accounts of
the State, relating either to the collec-
tion 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 necces-
sary in the course of their inquiries con-
cerning 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.
Sec. 24. Neither House shall, without
the consent of the other, adjourn for
more than three days at any one time,
nor to any other place than that in
which the House shall be sitting, with-
out the concurrent vote of two-thirds of
the members present.
Sec. 25. The House of Delegates shall
have the sole power of impeachment in
all cases, but a majority of all the mem-
bers elected must concur in an impeach-
ment; all impeachments 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 evidence, but no person
shall be convicted without the concur-
rence of two-thirds of all the Senators
elected.
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Sec, 26. 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 ten days of
the session, nor become a law until it be
read on three different days of the ses-
sion in each House, unless three-fourths
of the members of the House where
such bill is pending shall so determine.
Sec. 27. 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. 28. 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 that shall be described in the title;
and no law nor section of a law shall be
revised or amended by reference to its
title or section only; and it shall be the
duty of the General Assembly, in amend-
ing any article or section of the code of
laws of this State, to enact the same as
the said article or section would read
when amended. And whenever the
General Assembly shall enact any public
general law, not amendatory of any sec-
tion or article in the said code, it shall
be the duty of the General Assembly to
enact the same in articles and sections,
in the same manner as the said code is
arranged; and to provide for the pub-
lication of all additions and alterations
which may be made to the said code.
Sec. 29. Every bill, when passed by
the General Assembly, and sealed with
the Great Seal, shall be presented to the
Governor, who shall sign the same in the
presence of the presiding officers and
chief clerks of the Senate and House of
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