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neglecting to hold such election, and any Judge of
Election, who shall wilfully and knowingly refuse
a legal vote when offered, or shall willfully and
knowingly receive an illegal vote, or conspire with
any person or persons 'whatsoever to violate the
provisions of this Article, or of any other law, or
of the Constitution of the State, touching elections,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be subject to
imprisonment for not less than six months for each
and every such offence, upon indictment and con-
viction thereof in a Court of competent jurisdic-
tion, as well as to a penalty of one thousand dol-
lars for receiving an illegal vote as aforesaid, to
be recovered in a civil action by the said Board of
Police, in the name of the State; and to a penalty
of one thousand dollars for refusing a legal vote as
aforesaid, to be recovered in a civil action, in any
Court of competent jurisdiction, by the person
whose vote shall have been refused as aforesaid. |
Section re-
enacted. |
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said Section
two hundred and twenty-seven, be and the same is
hereby re-enacted to read as follows: |
To apply to
elections in the
city of Balti-
more. |
Sec. 227. The provisions of the preceding Sec-
tions of this said Article relating to elections, shall
apply to all Elections in the city of Baltimore,
whether Federal or State, or Municipal, and all
elections to take place hereafter in the City of Bal-
timore, shall be by ballot, and shall be held and
proceed, and the returns thereof made in confor-
mity with the provisions of the thirty-fifth Article
of the Code of Public General Laws, except in so
far as the same may be modified by the provisions
of this Article as amended at the January Session
of the General Assembly of Maryland, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in relation
thereto, and no election to be held in the City of
Baltimore, whether Federal, State or Municipal
shall be valid unless held under and in conformity
with the provisions of this Article in relation to
elections, as amended as aforesaid, and under and
subject to the provisions of the Article establish-
ing a permanent Police in the City of Baltimore,
and defining and enforcing its powers and duties,
and under and subject to the control and command
as to all Police purposes of said Board of Police;
and that no Judge of any Court in tins State shall |
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