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and any officer or agent of any employer who shall refuse to allow its
or his employe or employes sufficient time not exceeding four hours
within which to vote or who shall directly or indirectly prevent or
hinder its or his employe or employes from exercising the right herein
granted by any form of inducement whatever, or by threats, express or
implied, that the exercise by said employe or employes of the right
herein granted will be followed by a discharge from said employment
or by a reduction in salary or wages, or who shall influence or attempt
to influence its or his employe or employes not to exercise the right
herein granted upon any pretext whatever shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall for each and every offense
pay a fine not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars or be imprisoned
in jail for a period not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion
of the court.

See sec. 162.

As to hours of labor, see art. 100.

1904, art. 33, sec. 90. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 84.

92. If any clerk of election, or any person performing the duties of
such clerk shall wilfully keep a false poll-list, or shall knowingly insert
in his poll-list any false statement, or any name or statement, or any
check, alteration or mark, except as in this article provided, he shall,
upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be
punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor
more than five years.
See sec. 162.

Ibid. sec. 91. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 85.

93. Every judge of election who shall wilfully exclude any vote
duly tendered, knowing that the person offering the same is lawfully
entitled to vote at such election, or shall wilfully receive a vote from
any person who has been duly challenged in relation to his right to vote
at such election without exacting from such person such oath or other
proof of qualification as may be required by law; or shall wilfully omit
to challenge any person offering to vote whom he knows or suspects to
be not entitled to vote, and who has not been challenged; or shall wil-
fully refuse to open and show the ballot-box to be empty prior to the
opening of the polls; or shall permit any barricade or obstruction of
any kind to be interposed, so that all who desire can not constantly see
such ballot-box, shall upon conviction thereof be punished by imprison-
ment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less than three months, nor
more than two years.

As to the civil liability of judges of election for fraudulently and mali-
ciously refusing to register a voter, see Friend v. Hamill, 34 Md. 298; Elbin
v. Wilson, 33 Md. 142. See also, Hardesty v. Taft, 23 Md. 530.

See sec. 162.

Ibid. sec. 92. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 86.

94. Every judge or clerk of election or other officer or person who
shall make, sign, publish or deliver any false tally or return of an elec-
tion, or any false certificate or statement of the result of an election,