ART. 3. ] LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. XXXV

the view to the more certain prevention or correction of the
abuses in the expenditures of the money of the State, the Gen-
era] 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
Library, and all expenditures therein, and upon all matters of
alleged abuse in expenditures, to which their attention may be

-called by Resolution of either House of the General Assembly.
Marshall v. Harwood, 7 Md. 466.

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
impeachment 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 accord-
ing to the law and the evidence; but no person shall be con-
victed without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the Senators
. elected.

SEC. 27. Any bill may originate in either House of the General
Assembly, and be altered, amended, or rejected by the other; but
no bill shall originate in either House during the last ten days of
the session, unless two-thirds of the members elected thereto shall
so determine by yeas and nays; nor shall any bill become a Law,
until it be read on three different days of the session in each
House, unless two-thirds of the members elected to the House,
where such bill is pending, shall so determine by yeas and nays;
and no bill shall be read a third time until it shall have been
actually engrossed for a third reading.

SEQ. 28. No bill shall become a Law unless it be passed in
each House by a majority of the whole number of members