876

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

through any other person, give, pay, expend or contribute

Affidavit to be

or promise to give, pay, expend or contribute any money,

subscribed to.

intoxicating liquors or other valuable thing to procure or. pro-

mote my own, or any other person's nomination at the coming

primary election, except money for my own personal ex-

penses for traveling and for purposes properly incidental to

traveling, for writing, printing and preparing for transmission

any letter, circular or other publication not issued at regular

intervals, whereby I may state my position or views upon

public or other questions, for stationery, sample ballots and

postage, for telegraph, telephone and other public messenger

Itemized
statement of

service, for announcing my candidacy, for expenses of meet-

expenditures.

ings held in my behalf, and for other personal petty expenses.

That I will file under oath with the chairman of the county

committee a true itemized statement of my expenditures made

in connection with my candidacy for nomination at or before

the hour of ten o'clock A.M., on Thursday succeeding the

coming primary election.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this........day of ........

Justice of the Peace or Notary Public.

At the time said affidavit is filed with said chairman, the said

To pay a fee.

candidate for nomination shall pay a fee to said chairman

to defray the expenses herein provided, which shall be as

follows : Judge of Circuit Court, $200 ; Member of Congress,

$200; State Senator, $30; State's Attorney, $60; Sheriff , $75 ;

Clerk of Circuit Court, $75 ; Register of Wills, $75 ; Clerk to

Fees of candi-

County Commissioners, $40; Treasurer, $40; Judge of Or-

dates.

phans' Court, $10 ; County Commissioner, $25 ; House of Dele-

gates, $10; County Surveyor, $5; County Comrnitteeman, $0.

And candidates for any other office shall pay such a fee as the

party chairman may fix, and the rates above set forth shall pre-

vail unless the county chairman shall determine that a smaller

fee will be sufficient to defray the expenses of such primary

election. Said fees to be used exclusively as a fund to defray

expenses of announcing candidates, printing ballots, furnish-

ing blanks and other necessary expenses for holding and con-

County com-

ducting the primary election, and paying such expenses of the

mittee chair-
man custo-

return judges as may be determined by the said convention of

dian of the

return judges. The chairman of the county committee shall

moneys.

be the custodian of the funds arising from said fees, and shall