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642 MARYLAND MANUAL [Art. 3
January 1, 1971 unless rejected by the joint resolution of
the General Assembly within 30 days of its receipt by the
General Assembly, and said resolution shall continue in
force until superseded by any succeeding resolution.
(5) In no event shall the compensation and allowances
be less than they were prior to the ratification of this Con-
stitutional amendment.
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.
1 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-
ber for disorderly, or disrespectful behavior, and with the
consent of two-thirds of its whole number of members
elected, expel a member; but no member shall be expelled a
second time for the same offence.
SEC. 20. A majority of the whole number of members
elected to each House shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business; but a smaller number may adjourn
from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent mem-
bers, in such manner, and under such penalties, as each
House may prescribe.
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.

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