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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

fraudulently do any unlawful act to secure for himself or for

any other person the right or opportunity to vote, or shall by

force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery or reward, or offer

or promise thereof, or otherwise unlawfully, either directly or

indirectly, influence, or attempt to influence, any voter in giving

his vote, or prevent or hinder, or attempt to prevent or hinder,

any qualified voter from freely exercising his right to vote at

said primary election, or shall, by any such means or otherwise,

compel or induce, or attempt to compel or induce, any judge or

clerk in any election precinct to receive the vote of any person

not legally qualified or entitled to vote at said election precinct,

Punishable by

shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and every such per-

imprisonment

tson shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprison-

ment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more

than one year.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That any judge of election who

Excluding law

shall wilfully exclude any vote duly tendered, knowing that the

ful vote.

person offering the same is lawfully entitled to vote at such

primary election, or who shall wilfully receive a vote from any

person who has been duly challenged in relation to his right

to vote at such primary election without exacting from such

person such proof of qualification as may be required by law,

or shall wilfully omit to challenge any person whom he knows

or suspects is not entitled to vote and who has not been chal-

lenged, or shall wilfully refuse to open or show the ballot boxes

empty prior to the opening of the polls; and if any judge of

said primary election who shall make, sign, publish or deliver

any false tally or return of election or any false certificate or

statement of the result of such primary election, knowing the

same to be false, or who shall wilfully deface, destroy or con-

ceal any statement, tally or certificate entrusted to his care

and custody, shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty

of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the

county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than one

year.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the details of the conduct of

Conduct of said

said primary election and the returns thereof, except as herein-

primary elec-
tion.

" before provided, shall be under such rules and regulations as

the Board of Supervisors of Elections shall adopt, said rules to

be published at the same time that the said Board of Super-

visors publish the date of holding said primaries and names of

the judges and clerks.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the provisions of the fore-

going Act shall not apply to any primaries held by either of