62 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND [Art. 3]

appoint a person who is otherwise properly qualified to hold the office of
delegate or senator in such District or County. In every case when any
person is so appointed by the Governor, his appointment shall be deemed
to be for the unexpired term of the person whose office has become vacant. ¹
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 de-
termining 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. See Art. 17, sec. 6.

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. ²

[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
seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) per annum, payable quarterly,
with a deduction of ten dollars 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 officer of
each House shall receive an additional compensation of two hundred and
fifty ($250) dollars per annum. When the General Assembly shall be
convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session shall not continue
longer than thirty days, but no additional compensation other than mileage
and other allowances provided by law shall be paid members of the General
Assembly for Special Sessions. ]³

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.

¹ Thus amended by Ch. 584 of the Acts of 1935 and ratified at November election, 1936.

² An amendment to this section increasing the compensation of members of the
General Assembly to $15 per diem was submitted by act of 1929, ch. 348, and rejected
by the people in November, 1930. An amendment increasing the compensation to &10
per diem was submitted by act of 1931, ch. 185, and rejected by the people in
November, 1934.

³ This amendment was submitted by ch. 247, 1939 and will be voted upon by the
people in Nov. 1940.