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. AH
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 evidence;
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 calendar days of a regular Session in even years
or during the last twenty calendar days of a regular session
in odd years, 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 mem-
bers 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 (1)

SEC. 28. No bill shall become a Law unless it be passed
in each House by a majority of the whole number of mem-
bers elected, and on 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

i Thus amended by Chapter 497, Acts of 1912, ratified November 4 1913- and
by Chapter 616, Acts of 1955, adopted by the voters November 6, 1956,