196 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

awe, or control any voter while at the polls, or going to or
returning from the same; and any person or persons who shall
wilfully destroy or mutilate, or attempt to destroy or mutilate,
any ballot that may have been deposited in any ballot-box, or in
any box for rejected ballots, in said city, or any election returns,
clerk's book, tally list, poll book, list of voters, or certificate of
election, or who shall steal or destroy, or attempt to steal or
destroy, any box or boxes aforementioned, or withdraw, or at-
tempt to withdraw, therefrom illegally any ballot or ballots
which may have been deposited therein, or attempt or commit
any violence against any person or persons having lawful charge
of the same, or against any judge or clerk of election in the dis-
charge of his duty as such; or who shall forcibly resist the exe-
cution of any lawful order of any judge or judges of election
under the provisions of this article or o? any other law, or shall
on election day, or while the returns of any election are being
made up, forcibly resist any policeman or peace officer in the
discharge of his duty at or about the polls, or under this article,
or shall forcibly resist any private citizen acting lawfully under
the lawful order of any judge of election given in conformity
with this article, or any other law for the purpose of securing
the peace and freedom of any election in said city; or shall seize,
take, steal, mutilate or destroy the naturalization papers, or cer-
tificate, or written evidence of naturalization, of any naturalized
voter, or attempt so to do either at or near the polls, or while
the said voter shall be proceeding thereto or returning there-
from, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and be sentenced, upon
conviction thereof, to confinement in the penitentiary for not less
than three nor more than six years.

225*. If the said Board of Police shall have reason to believe
that in the neighborhood of any election polls in the said city or
elsewhere, within any election precinct of the same, there is any
depot or collection of fire arms or other weapons or ammunition
intended to be used for the purpose of intimidating or injuring
voters, or interfering with the freedom or peace, of any election
then pending or approaching, it shall be the duty of the said
board to apply to the Criminal Court, or some justice of the
peace of said city, for a warrant, on proper oath, to search the
premises, and the said court or justice shall issue the same with-
out delay, and shall cause the said arms, weapons and ammuni-
tion, if found, to be seized and delivered to said board, to be
detained until the day after the returns of said election shall
have been made, and until the same shall be disposed of by law.