XXXIV CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. 3.

Laws of the State; shall appoint its own officers, determine the
rules of its own proceedings, punish a member for disorderly or
disrespectful behavior, and with the consent of two-thirds of its
whole number of members elected, expel a member; but no
member shall be expelled a second time for the same offence.

SEC. 20. A majority of the whole number of members elected
to each House shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day,
and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner
and under such penalties as each House may prescribe.

SEC. 21. The doors of each House and of the Committee of the
Whole shall be open, except when the business is such as ought
to be kept secret.

SEC. 22. Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings
and cause the same to be published. The yeas and nays of mem-
bers 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.

SEC. 23. Each House may punish by imprisonment, during
the session of the General Assembly, any person, not a member,
for disrespectful 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
witnesses, 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 collection 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 in-
terest, and may direct all office bonds which shall be made pay-
able to the State, to be sued for any breach thereof; and with