abuse in expenditures, to which their attention may be called
by resolution of either House of the General Assembly.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 27. 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, unless two-thirds of the members
elected thereto shall so determine by yeas and nays; nor
shall any bill become a law until it be read on three different
days of the session in each House, unless two-thirds of the
members elected to the House where such bill is pending
shall so determine by yeas and nays, and no bill shall be read
a third time until it shall have been actually engrossed or
printed for a third reading.*

SEC. 28. No bill shall become a law unless it be passed in
each House by a majority of the whole number of members
elected and in its final passage the yeas and nays be recorded;
nor shall any resolution requiring the action of both Houses be
passed except in the same manner.

SEC. 29. 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 its title; and no law, nor section of
law, shall be revived or amended by reference to its title or
section only; nor shall any law be construed by reason of its
title to grant powers or confer rights which are not expressly
contained in the body of the Act; and it shall be the duty of
the General Assembly, in amending 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,

* Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people November 4, 1913.