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Art. 3] MARYLAND MANUAL 587 list of names there proposed shall be submitted to the Governor, and he shall make the appointment from the list. 1 SEC. 14. The General Assembly shall meet on the third Wednesday of January, nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and on the same day in every year thereafter, and at no other time, unless convened by Proclamation of the Governor. ' 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 seventy days in each year; and on and after January 1, 1965, each member thereof shall receive a compensation of Twenty-four Hun- dred Dollars ($2,400.00), per annum, payable quarterly, with a deduction of Fifteen Dollars ($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 compen- sation of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) per annum. When the General Assembly shall be convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session shall not con- tinue longer than thirty days, but no additional compensa- tion other than mileage and other allowances provided by law shall be paid members of the General Assembly for special session. 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. SEC. 17. No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as such, notwithstanding he may thereafter resign, shall dur- ing 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 Consti- tution and Laws of the State; shall appoint its own officers, determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish a mem- i This amended by Chapter 161, Acts 011964, ratified. November 8, 1964. ' Thus amended by Chapter 161, Acts of 1964, ratified November 3. 1964. |
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