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 pro-
ceedings, and cause the same to be published. The yeas and
nays of members on any question, shall at the call of any
five of them in the House of Delegates, or one in the Sen-
ate, be entered on the Journal.

SEC. 23. Each House may punish by imprisonment, dur-
ing the session of the General Assembly, any person, not a
member, for disrespectful, or disorderly behavior in its
presence, or for obstructing any of its proceedings, or any
of its officers in the execution of their duties; provided,
such imprisonment shall not, at any one time, exceed ten
days.

SEC. 24. The House of Delegates may inquire, on the
oath of witness, into all complaints, grievances and of-
ences, as the grand inquest of the State, and may commit
any person, for any crime, to the public jail, there to remain,
until discharged by due course of Law. They may examine
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 a 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.