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Bribery.

Sec. 5. If any person shall give, or offer to give, directly
or indirectly, or hath given or offered to give, since the
fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, any
bribe, present, or reward, or any promise, or any security
for the payment or delivery of money or any other thing,
to induce any voter to refrain from casting his vote, or
forcibly to prevent him in any way from voting, or to pro-
cure a vote for any candidate or person, proposed or voted
for as Elector of President and Vice-President of the
United States, or Representative in Congress, or for any
office of profit or trust created by the Constitution or laws
of this State, or by the ordinances or authority of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the person giving
or offering to give, and the person receiving the same, and
any person who gives or causes to be given an illegal vote,
knowing it to be such, at any election to be hereafter held
in this State, or who shall be guilty of or accessory to any
fraud, force, surprise, or bribery to procure himself or any
other person to be nominated to any office, National, State
or Municipal, shall on conviction in a court of law, in

Penalties.

addition to the penalties now or hereafter to be imposed by
law, be forever disqualified to hold any office of profit or
trust, or to vote at any election thereafter.

Punishment for
illegal voting.

1853, ch. 133.

Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to
pass laws to punish with fine and imprisonment any person
who shall remove into any election district or precinct of
any ward of the city of Baltimore, not for the purpose
of acquiring a bona fide residence therein, but for the
purpose of voting at an approaching election, or who shall
vote in any election district or ward in which he does not
reside, (except in the case provided for in this Article), or
shall at the same election vote in more than one election
district or precinct, or shall vote or offer to vote in any
name not his own, or in place of any other person of the
same name, or shall vote in any county in which he does
not reside.

Oath of Office.

Sec. 7. Every person elected or appointed to any office
of trust or profit under this Constitution, or under the