and pass all accounts of the State, relating either to the
collection or expenditure of the revenue, and appoint audi-
tors to state and adjust the same. They may call for all
public or official papers 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 be made pay-
able to the State to be sued for any breach thereof; and
with the view to the more certain prevention 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 examine and
report upon all contracts made for printing, stationery,
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..

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 members elected must concur in the impeachment. All
impeachments shall be tried by the Senate, and when sit-
ting for that purpose the Senators shall be on oath or af-
firmation to do justice according to the law and the evi-
dence; but no person shall be convicted without the con-
currence 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 actu-
ally engrossed or printed for a third reading. 1.

1 Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 4, 1913..