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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.

SEC. 14. The General Assembly shall meet on the first Wed-
nesday 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 Proclamation of the Governor.

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 compensation of three dollars per day. When the
General Assembly shall be convened 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.

SEC, 16. No book, or other printed matter, not appertaining to>
the business of the session, shall be purchased or subscribed for,
for the use of the members of the General Assembly, or be dis-
tributed among them, at the public expense.

SEC. 17. No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as such, not-
withstanding 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.

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 Constitution and
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