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President of the Senate, as the case may be, for the election of another
person in his place, of which election not less than ten days' notice shall be
given, exclusive of the day of the publication of the notice and of the day
of election; and if during the recess of the Legislature, and more than ten
days before its termination, such death shall occur, or such resignation,
refusal to act or disqualification be communicated in writing to the Gov-
ernor by the person so resigning, refusing or disqualified, it shall be the
duty of the Governor to issue a warrant of election to supply the vacancy
thus created, in the same manner the said Speaker or President might have
done during the session of the General Assembly; provided, however, that
unless a meeting of the General Assembly may intervene, the election thus
ordered to fill such vacancy shall be held on the day of the ensuing election
for Delegates and Senators.

This section referred to in construing art. 3, sec. 19—see notes thereto. Covington
v. Buffett, 90 Md. 569.

Sec. 14. The General Assembly shall meet on the first Wednesday of
January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and on the same day in every
second year thereafter, and at no other time, unless convened by Procla-
mation of the Governor.

Meaning of the term " general assembly " as used in this section, referred to in
determining that the Governor was not embraced in that term as used in art. 14,
sec. 1—see notes thereto. Warfield v. Vandiver, 101 Md. 111.

Sec. 15. The General Assembly may continue its session so long as in
its judgment the public interest may require, for a period not longer than
ninety days; and each member thereof shall receive a compensation of five
dollars per diem for every day he shall attend the session, but not for such
days as he may be absent, unless absent on account of sickness or by leave
of the House of which he is a member; and he shall also receive such
mileage as may be allowed by law, not exceeding twenty cents per mile;
and the presiding officer of each House shall receive an additional compen-
sation of three dollars per day. When the General Assembly shall be con-
vened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session shall not continue longer
than thirty days, and in such case the' compensation shall be the same as
herein prescribed.

Meaning of the term " general assembly " as contained in this section, referred
to in determining that the Governor was not embraced in that term as used in art.
14, sec. 1—see notes thereto. Warfield v. Vandiver, 101 Md. 111.

Sec. 16. No book, or other printed matter, not appertaining to the busi-
ness of the session, shall be purchased or subscribed for, for the use of the
members of the General Assembly, or be distributed among them, at the
public expense.

Sec. 17. No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as such, notwith-
standing he may thereafter, resign, shall during 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.

The position of general counsel to the state tax commission held not to be an
office within the meaning of this section. State Tax Commission v. Harrington,
126 Md. 159.