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 necessary and usual in the Legislative Assembly of a free state. These are the pertinent provisions of the Constitution expressly granting peculiar powers to each branch of the Legislative Assembly.

Upon these constitutional provisions, accordingly, the question arises of the authority of one branch of the Legislative Assembly, as a constitutional power, to select its employees, and determine their compensation. It is to be noted that express power in the Constitution is not granted to each house to appoint or designate its own officers and employees and to fix their salaries. Neither is there any restriction in the Constitution upon appointment of such employees or the determination of their salaries. Some state Constitutions expressly provide for and restrict the employees and their salaries. See James v. Cromwell, 129 Ky. 508, 112 S. W. 611; Walker v. Coulter, 113 Ky. 814, 68 S. W. 1108. Some Constitutions directly authorize each branch of the Legislative Assembly to choose its own officers. Tenny v. State, 27 Wis. 387; State v. Guilbert, supra. Our sister state of South Dakota has an express constitutional provision granting authority to each house to choose its own officers and employees and fix their pay, except as otherwise provided in the Constitution. Article 3, § 9, Const. S. D. The only provision of our Constitution concerning the officers of the Legislative Assembly and their compensation is § 45, which provides that each member shall receive as compensation $5 per day and 10 cents per mile of necessary travel. The power of each house, therefore, to select its public employees and determine their salaries must exist impliedly or inherently under the provisions quoted. Ordinarily the powers granted to each house in the Constitution are not to be extended by construction; in other words, the maxim is frequently applied, “Expressio unius est exclusio alterius.” State v. Guilbert, supra; Ex parte Caldwell, 61 W. Va. 49, 55 S. E. 910, 912, 10 L. R. A. (N. S.) 172, 11 Ann. Cas. 646. Thus a constitutional provision granting to each house specific powers concerning contempt is also a limitation upon the powers to punish for contempt. See Kilbourne v. Thompson, 103 U. S. 168, 26 L. ed. 377, 386, 389. See 7 Ann. Cas. note 877. So a constitutional provision providing that a Legislature may punish by imprisonment any person not a member obstructing its proceedings places a limitation upon its power to punish for contempt. Ex parte Wolters, 64 Tex. Cr. R. 238, 144 S. W. 531, 583, 585, Ann. Cas. 1916B, 1071. If the provision of § 48 of the Constitution properly means that each house has all other powers necessary and usual in each branch of a Legislative Assembly, much force