Article XV.
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Journal of proceedings; public sessions; adjournments
Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish the same, except such parts as may require secrecy. The doors of each house, shall be kept open, except when the public welfare shall require secrecy. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than two days.
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That whenever the assembly and senate disagree, a conference shall be held in the presence of both, and be managed by committees to be by them respectively chosen by ballot. That the doors, both of the senate and assembly, shall at all times be kept open to all persons, except when the welfare of the state shall require their debates to be kept secret. And the journals of all their proceedings shall be kept in the manner heretofore accustomed by the general assembly of the colony of New-York, and, except such parts as they shall as aforesaid respectively determine not to make public, be from day to day (if the business of the legislature will permit) published.