The joint convention shall have power to punish any person other than a member for disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence, by fine and imprisonment, in the same manner and to the same extent as either house may do for like conduct before it.Codes, 1892, § 2681; 1906, § 3041; Hemingway's 1917, § 5429; 1930, § 5363; 1942, § 3361.
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