PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 457

by any political committee or candidate for nomination or
election to any public office, to receive or disburse moneys
to aid or promote the success or defeat of any such party, prin-
ciple or candidate. The term "Political Agent" shall include
all persons appointed by any candidate before any election, or
primary election, to assist him in his candidacy. No person
shall act as any such treasurer or political agent unless, after
his appointment, and before the primary or election for which
he is appointed, a writing signed by the political committee or
candidate appointing him and designating him as such treas-
urer or political agent, shall be filed with the Secretary of
State, except that in case the duties of such treasurer or
political agent shall relate to any county, city, ward or district
election exclusively, or to any primary election preliminary
thereto, such writing shall be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of the county within which such treasurer or political
agent resides, or with the clerk of the Circuit Court of Balti-
more City, if such treasurer or political agent resides in Balti-
more City, instead of with the Secretary of State. Every such
writing shall designate the particular period, election or pri-
mary election within which such treasurership or political agency
shall continue. Nothing in this act shall prevent the treasurer
or political agent of any candidate from being the treasurer or
political agent of any candidate, but no candidate for public
office or nomination therefor may designate himself as his own
political agent or act as the political agent or treasurer of any
other candidate. No person shall be appointed or act as treas-
urer or political agent in any election or primary election who
is not a citizen and resident of the State of Maryland.

165. No person other than a treasurer or political agent
shall pay any of the expenses of any election or primary elec-
tion, except that a candidate may pay his own expenses for
postage, telegrams, telephoning, stationery, printing, advertis-
ing, publishing, expressage and traveling and board. The pay-
ments, expenditures, promises and liabilities which any candi-
date for nomination or for election may make or incur, directly
or indirectly, whether in money or other thing of value, under
this or the preceding section, shall not exceed in the whole
ten dollars for each one thousand (or the major portion thereof)
up to fifty thousand, and five dollars for each one thousand
(or the major portion thereof) in excess of fifty thousand of
the registered voters qualified to vote for the office in question
at the next preceding election therefor, all to be paid, handled
and disbursed by a treasurer or political agent, and not other-
wise; and any payment, contribution, expenditure of, or prom-