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222*. Any judge of election who shall wilfully and knowingly
refuse a legal vote when offered, or receive an illegal vote, or
combine 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 conviction therefor in a court of competent jurisdiction, as
well as to a penalty of one thousand dollars, to be recovered in
a civil action by said Board of Police in the name of the State.

223*. If any person shall prevent or hinder, or attempt, or con-
spire with any other person or persons to prevent or hinder any
voter from exercising his right of suffrage in the city of Balti-
more, by threat, intimidation, violence, or any other unlawful
means, whether before or during election time, or shall detain or
imprison any person or persons with the view or intent of caus-
ing, procuring or forcing such person or persons to vote illegally,
or against his or their will, or under compulsion, in any precinct
in said city, such person so offending, and every person who
shall be guilty of wilfully voting or offering to vote illegally, or
causing or procuring any other person to vote illegally, in any
precinct of the said city, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged
guilty of felony, and be sentenced to not less than two nor more
than six years' imprisonment in the penitentiary; and it shall be
deemed illegal within the meaning of this article, to vote or offer
to vote in more than one precinct, or more than once in any
precinct, at any election, or without being constitutionally or
legally qualified, or in violation of the Constitution, or of this
article, or of any other law; and all acts made punishable under
the thirty-fifth article of the code of general laws in relation to
elections, when committed within or with reference to any elec-
tion district or districts of any county, are hereby declared to
be illegal when committed within or in reference to any election
precinct or precincts aforesaid.

224*. Any two or more persons who shall, during any election
in the city of Baltimore, assemble, conspire or combine together
for the purpose of driving any voter or voters from the polls, or
preventing, or obstructing, or beating, injuring, or intimidating
any voter or voters in coming to or returning from the polls;

and any person or persons who shall assault, wound, beat or
otherwise maltreat or injure, or shall offer to maltreat or injure,
or shall by menace or violence, or otherwise, intimidate, over-