SEC. 15. The General Assembly may continue its ses-
sion so long as in its judgment the public interest may re-
quire, for a period not longer than ninety days; and each
member thereof shall receive a compensation of One Thous-
and Dollars ($1,000) per annum, payable quarterly, with
a deduction of fifteen dollars per diem for each day of un-
excused absence from any session; and he shall also receive
such mileage as may be allowed by law, not exceeding twen-
ty cents per mile; and the presiding officer of each House
shall receive an additional compensation of Two hunded and
fifty ($250) dollars per annum. When the General Assem-
bly shall be convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the
session shall not continue longer than thirty days, but no
additional compensation other than mileage and other al-
lowances provided by law shall be paid members of the
General Assembly for Special Sessions. 1.

[SEC. 15. The General Assembly may continue its ses-
sion so long as in its judgment the public interest may
require, for a period not longer than ninety days in odd
years and thirty days in even years; and on and after
January 1, 1949, each member thereof shall receive a com-
pensation of Eighteen Hundred Dollars ($1,800.00) per
annum, payable quarterly, with a deduction of Fifteen Dol-
lars (15.00) 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 officers of each House shall receive
an additional compensation of Two Hundred and Fifty
Dollars ($250) per annum. In any of said thirty-day ses-
sions in even years, the General Assembly shall consider
no bills other than (1) Bills having to do with budgetary,
revenue and financial matters of the State Government,
(2) legislation dealing with an acute emergency, and (3)
legislation in the general public welfare. When the General
Assembly shall be convened by Proclamation of the Gov-
ernor, the session shall not continue longer than thirty
days, but an 2 additional compensation other than mileage
and other allowances provided by law shall be paid mem-
bers of the General Assembly for special session.] 3.

SEC. 16. No book, or other printed matter, not apper-
taining to the business of the session, shall be purchased
or subscribed for, for the use of the members of the Gen-
eral Assembly, or be distributed among them, at the public
expense..

1 Thus amended by Ch. 695 of 1941, ratified at November election, 1942.
2 The word "no" evidently intended.
3 Thus amendment was submitted by Act of 1947, Ch. 497, and will be voted
upon by the voters in November, 1948..