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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 im-
peachment 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 sitting for that purpose the Senators shall be on oath
or affirmation to do justice according to the law and the evidence; but
no person shall be convicted without the concurrence 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 deter-
mine 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 actually engrossed for a third reading.

Sec. 28. No bill shall become a law unless it be passed in each
House by a majority of the whole number of members 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 by the General Assembly shall
embrace but one subject, and that shall be described in its title; and no
law, or section of law, shall be revived or amended by reference to its
title or section only; nor shall any law be construed by reason of its
title to grant powers or confer rights which are not expressly contained
in the body of the Act; and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly,
in amending any article or section of the Code of Laws of this State,
to enact the same as the said article or section would read when
amended. And whenever the General Assembly shall enact any Public
General Law, not amendatory of any section or article in the said Code,