HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 415

Assembly may continue its session and the compensation
of the members thereof, and to provide for the submission
of said amendment to the qualified voters of the State of
Maryland for adoption or rejection.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land (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 3 of the
Constitution of the State of Maryland, title "Legislative De-
partment", the same, if adopted by the legally qualified voters
of the State, as herein provided, to become Section 15 of
Article 3 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 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 al-
lowed 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 an-
num. When the General Assembly shall be convened by Proc-
lamation 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.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said aforegoing sec-
tion hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of
the State of Maryland shall, at the next general election to
be held in November, 1940, be submitted to the legal and quali-
fied voters of the State, for their adoption or rejection, in pur-
suance of the directions contained in Article 14 of the Con-
stitution of the State of Maryland, and at the said general
election the vote on the said proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution 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 pro-
vided by law, and immediately after said election due returns
shall be made to the Governor of the vote for and against the
said proposed amendment, as directed by said Fourteenth
Article of the Constitution, and further proceedings had in
accordance with said Article Fourteen.

Approved April 26, 1939.