920 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

1904, art. 33, sec. 160. 1888, art. 33, sec. 152.

162. All public general laws or public local laws or parts thereof
which are inconsistent with the provisions of this article are hereby
repealed; provided, that every offense which has been or shall have been
wholly or partly committed against any of said public general or public
local laws or parts thereof before April 2, 1896 shall be dealt with,
inquired into, tried, determined and punished; and any penalty in
respect to any such offense shall be imposed or inflicted, and any fine
shall be imposed, enforced or recovered in the same manner as if the
said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and no case pending
shall abate, by reason of such repeal, and every act duly done and every
warrant or other instrument duly issued, made or granted before April
2, 1896, shall continue and be of the same force and effect as if the
said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and provided, also,
that any' right, liability, privileges and protection in respect to any
matter or thing committed or done before April 2, 1896, shall con-
tinue and be of the same force and effect as if the said laws or parts
thereof had not been repealed; and every action, prosecution or other
proceeding which shall have commenced before April 2, 1896, or shall
thereafter be commenced in respect to any such matter or thing done
before April 2, 1896, may be prosecuted, continued and defended in the
same manner as if said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and
provided, also, that nothing in this article shall be construed to repeal
any provisions of the existing laws applicable to the city of Baltimore
for the prevention of the sale or dispensing of any liquor or for the
preservation of peace and order therein on any election day.
See sec. 14 and notes; also, sec. 89, et seq.

Election Expenses and Prohibition of Corrupt Practices at Elections.

1908, ch. 122.

163. The provisions of this sub-title shall apply to all elections of
all officers for whom ballots shall be cast pursuant to the provisions of
this article of the code of public civil laws, and to the election of
all officers by the general assembly of Maryland and to all primary
elections preliminary to any such other elections, and to all candidates
to be voted for a't any such elections or primary elections, and the term
"primary elections" shall include, (a) all elections held to nominate a
candidate for any public office, or to elect delegates to a nominating
convention; (b) nominating conventions of such delegates; (c) caucuses
of members of the general assembly.

1908, ch. 122.

164. The term "political committee," within the meaning of this
sub-title, shall include every committee or combination of two or more
persons to aid or promote the success or defeat of any political party
or principle in any election, or of any proposition submitted to vote
at a public election, or to aid or take part in the nomination or election