458 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 228]

ise or liability to pay, contribute or expend any money or
valuable thing in excess of said sum, shall be unlawful; pro-
vided, however, that a candidate for nomination or for election
may pay personally in addition to said sum or valuable thing
or things amounting thereto, his own expenses for postage,
telegrams, telephoning, stationery, printing, advertising, pub-
lishing, expressage, traveling and board (provided, further, that
any payment, expenditure, contribution, promise or liability
which may be made or incurred, directly or indirectly, by the
wife of any candidate for an office or nomination shall be
charged against the candidate as if made by the candidate
himself); and provided, further, that nothing in this act shall
be taken or construed to prohibit the chairman of the State
Central Committee of the State or of any county or of the
City of Baltimore of any political party from soliciting con-
tributions for campaign purposes, which contributions, however,
shall be expended in accordance with and subject to the pro-
visions and restrictions of this act.

166. It shall be lawful for any treasurer or political agent
in connection with any election, or primary election, and in
making provisions therefor, to pay the following expenses: (a)
of hiring 'of halls and music for the conventions, public meet-
ings and public primaries and for advertising the same; (b)
of printing and circulating political articles, circulars, pamph-
lets and books; (c) of printing and distributing sample or speci-
men ballots and instructions to voters, subject, however, to such
prohibitions or restrictions as may be imposed by this article
upon the publication and distribution of such sample or speci-
men ballots or instructions; (d) of renting rooms and head-
quarters to be used by political committees; (e) of compensat-
ing clerks, stenographers and typewriters employed in the com-
mittee-rooms, and also of challengers and watchers employed
in the registration rooms, in the voting-rooms and at the polls;
(f) the traveling and other legitimate expenses of political
agents, committees and public speakers; (g) of necessary post-
age, telegrams, telephoning, printing expenses and conveyance
charges for carrying persons to and from the polls, or to and
from the office of registration; (h) the cost and expenses of mes-
sengers sent by direction of the chairman of the State Central
Committee of any political party in connection with party
matters or interests, and also the cost and expenses of any
person or persons summoned by or at the instance of the chair-
man of the State Central Committee of any political party
to the committee's headquarters or offices in connection with
party matters or interests and also for the accommodation and