682 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 379

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland (three-fifths of all the members of each of the two
Houses concurring), That the following be and the same is
hereby proposed as an amendment to Section 15 of Article III,
of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, title "Legisla-
tive Department, " the same if adopted by the legally qualified
voters of the State, as herein provided, to become Section 15
of Article III, of the Constitution of the State of Maryland.

15. The General Assembly may continue its session so long
as in its judgment the public interest may require for a period
of not longer than ninety days; and each member thereof shall
receive a compensation of fifteen 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 five 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. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
said, That said aforegoing section hereby proposed as an
amendment to the Constitution of the State of Maryland
shall, at the next general election for Members of Con-
gress held in this State, be submitted to the legal and
qualified voters of the State, for their adoption or rejec-
tion, in pursuance of the directions contained in Article
XIV of the Constitution of the State of Maryland, and at the
said general election the vote on the said proposed amendment
to the Constitution shall be by ballot, and upon each ballot
there shall be printed the words "For the Constitutional
Amendment, " and "Against the Constitutional Amendment, "
as now provided by law, and immediately after said election
due returns shall be made to the Governor of the vote for
and against said proposed amendment, as directed by said
Fourteenth Article of the Constitution, and further proceed-
ings had in accordance with said Article Fourteen.

Approved April 5, 1927.