CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
		shall be recorded in the daily journal of
		that house.
	Sec. 23. Each House may punish by
	imprisonment, during the session of the
	General Assembly, any person, not a mem-
	ber, for disrespectful, or disorderly be-
	havior 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. 54. The House of Delegates may	See Section 3.16, Organization, p. 27. See also
	inquire, on the oath of witnesses, into all	Section 1.04, Fair Treatment in Investiga-
	complaints, grievances and offences, as the	tions, p. 5.
	Grand Inquest of the State, and may com- mit any person, for any crime, to the	Section 3.24. Post Audit.
	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	The General Assembly shall provide by law for post audit of state finances by an agency of the General Assembly. The princi- pal officer of the agency shall be elected by and be responsible to the General Assembly.
	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
	interest, and may direct all office bonds
	which shall be made payable to the State,
	to be sued for any breach thereof; and
	with a view to the more certain prevention,
	or correction of the abuses in the expendi-
	tures of the money of the State, the General
	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 the
	Library, and all expenditures therein, and
	upon all matters of alleged abuse in ex-
	penditures, to which their attention may be
	called by Resolution of either House of the
	General Assembly.
	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 concur-
	rent vote of two-thirds of the members
	present.

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