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MARYLAND MANUAL 453 them in the House of Delegates, or one in the Senate, be entered on the Journal. Sac. 23. Each House may punish by imprisonment during the session of the General Assembly, any person not a mem- ber, for disrespectful or disorderly behavior in its presence, or for obstructing 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. Sac. 24. The House of Delegates may inquire, on the oath of witness, 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 dis- charged by due course of law. They may examine and pass all accounts of the State, relating either to the collection or expenditure of the revenue, and appoint auditors to state and adjust the same. They may call for all public or official pa- pers and records, and send for persons whom they may judge necessary, in the course of their inquiries, concerning affairs relating to the public interest, and may direct all office bonds which shall he made payable to the State to be sued for any breach thereof; and with the view to the more certain pre- 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 Senate and House of Delegates, who shall have power to send for persons and examine them on oath and call for public or official 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. Sac. 25. Neither House shall, without the consent of the 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. Sac. 26. 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 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 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. Sac. 27. Any bill may originate in either House of the General Assembly and be altered, amended or rejected by the |
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