*SEC. 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 One Thousand ..Dollars,
($1,000) per annum, payable quarterly, with a deduction of
fifteen dollars per diem for each day of unexcused absence from
any session; 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 com-
pensation of Two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars per annum.
When the General Assembly shall be convened by Proclama-
tion 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
for disorderly or disrespectful behavior, and with the consent
of two-thirds of its whole number of members elected, expel
a member; but no member shall be expelled a second time for
the same offence.

SEC. 20. A majority of the whole number of members
elected to each House shall constitute a quorum for the trans-
action of business; but a smaller number may adjourn from
day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members in
such manner and under such penalties as each House may
prescribe.

SEC. 21. The doors of each House and of the Committee of
the Whole shall be open, except when the business is such as
ought to be kept secret.

SEC. 22. Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceed-
ings, and cause the same to be published. The yeas and nays
of members on any question shall, at the call of any five of

* Thus amended by Chapter 695—Acts of 1941 and ratified by the people at the November
election 1942.