22 MARYLAND MANUAL. [ART. 1.
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Bribery. |
SEC. 3. If any person shall give, or offer to give, directly
or indirectly, any bribe, present, or reward, or any promise,
or any security, for the payment or the delivery of money, or
any other thing, to induce any voter to refrain from casting
his vote, or 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 pro-
fit 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 |
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Penalties. |
any election to be hereafter held in this State, shall, on con-
viction in a Court of Law, in 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 there-
after.
[SEC. 3. If any person shall give, or offer to give, directly |
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Bribery. |
or indirectly, 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 to prevent him in any way from voting, or to procure
a vote for any candidate or person proposed, or voted for as
an 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 Coun-
cil 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 elec-
tion to be hereafter held in this State, shall, on conviction in |
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Penalties. |
a Court of Law, in 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.
But the General Assembly may, in its discretion, remove the
above penalty and all other penalties upon the vote seller so
as to place the penalties for the purchase of votes on the vote
buyer alone.]* |
Punishment
tor illegal
voting. |
SEC. 4. 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 acquir-
ing a bona fide residence therein, but for the purpose of vot-
ing at an approaching election, or who shall vote in any elec-
*Thus amended by Chapter 602, Acts of 1912, ratified by the people
November 4, 1913. |
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