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Sec. 22. Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings, am!
pause 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 Senate, be entered on the Journal.
See notes to section 30.

Sec. 23. Each House may punish by imprisonment, during the
session of the General Assembly, any person not a member, for disre-
spectful 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 wit-
nesses, into all complaints, grievances and offences, 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 col-
lection or expenditure of the revenue, and appoint auditors 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 inter-
est, and may direct all office bonds which shall be made payable to the
State to be sued for any breach thereof: and with the 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 reso-
lution of either House of the General Assembly.

This section referred to in upholding the right of the grand jury to have
the ballot hox and ballots before it in a judicial investigation of an election,
and in saying that the traverser was not injured by the presence in the
grand jury room for the purpose, and in the manner testified to, of the
president of the board of police commissioners, and of a member of the
board of election supervisors. Cochran v. State, 119 Md. 557.

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