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A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum. Each house shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its members ; shall choose its own officers ; and the Senate shall choose a temporary president when the Lieutenant-Governor shall not attend as president, or shall act as Governor. The Secretary of State shall call the Assembly to order at the opening of each new Assembly, and preside over it until a presiding officer thereof shall have been chosen and shall have taken his seat. No member shall be expelled by either house, except by a vote of a majority of all the members elected to that house, and no member shall be twice expelled for the same offence.