[SEC. 15. The Genera] 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.]

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 seven hundred and fifty dollars
($750) per annum, payable quarterly, with a deduction of ten
dollars per diem for each day of unexcused absence from any
session; and he shall also receive such mileage as may be al-
lowed by law, not exceeding twenty cents per mile; and the
presiding officer of each House shall receive an additional
compensation of two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars per an-
num. When the General Assembly shall be convened by Proc-
lamation of the Governor, the session shall not continue
longer than thirty days, but no additional compensation other
than mileage and other allowances provided by law shall be
paid members of the General Assembly for Special Sessions'

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

(1) This amendment was submitted by Ch. 247, 1939, and will be voted upon the by people
November, 1940.