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of law, shall be forever disqualified td hold any office of trust or

profit in this state — Const, art. 54.

If any candidate at an election, under this act, or other person, shall

give or promise any gift or reward to secure any vote or ballot, or

keep, or suffer to be kept, any house, booth,&e. in any part of the

district during the day of the election, and before the close, at his

expense, where victuals or liquors shall be given to voters, he shall,

on conviction, be fined not exceeding $500, and suffer imprison-

ment not exceeding six months — 1805, ch. 97, sec. 29,

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If any candidate, or other person, shall, before or on the day of any

election under the act of 1805, ch. 97, give or promise any gift or

reward to secure any vote or ballot, he shall, on conviction, be

fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and suffer imprisonment

not exceeding six months — 1811, ch. 204, .

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Any judge, or other person concerned in the administration of justice,

taking any illegal fee, gift, &c. to influence his behaviour in office,

and any person giving money, &c. with such intent, to be deemed

guilty of bribery, and on conviction sentenced to confinement in

the penitentiary not less than two nor more than twelve years, and

disqualified from holding any office for ever thereafter — 1809,

ch. 138, sec. 8, ..........

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BRIBERY OF JURORS.

See JURORS.

BRIDGES.

Provisions for compelling owners or occupiers of mills, or other water

works, to keep bridges over their races — 1825, ch. 224,

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The levy courts empowered to assess money for the repairs of any

one bridge in their respective counties, not exceeding £30 in any

one year — 1794, ch. 53, sec. 4, . .....

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To assess money for erecting any one new bridge, not exceeding

£100 in any one year — 1794, ch. 53, sec. 4, ....

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BRITISH STATUTES.

The inhabitants of Maryland entitled to the benefit of such of the

English statutes as existed at the time of their emigration, and

which, by experience, have been found applicable to their local and

other circumstances, and of such others as have been since made

in England or Great Britain, and have been introduced, used and

practised by the courts of law or equity — Decl. of Rights, art. 3.

The governor shall not, under any pretence, exercise any power or pre-

rogative by virtue of any law, statute or custom, of England or

Great Britain — Const, art. 33.

Every provision, &c. in any British statute, introduced, used or prac-

tised under in this state, inconsistent with, or repugnant to, any-

thing contained in the act for amending the laws concerning last

wills, &c, is thereby repealed— 1798, ch. 101, sec. 2, .

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