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of any candidate for public office. The term "treasurer" shall include
all persons appointed by any political committee or candidate for nomi-
nation or election to any public office, to receive or disburse moneys
to aid or promote the success or defeat of any such party, principle 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
treasurer 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 Baltimore city, if such treasurer or political agent resides in
Baltimore city, instead of with such secretary of state. Every such
wilting shall designate the particular period, election or primary elec-
tion within which such treasurership or political agency shall continue.
Nothing in this sub-title shall prevent the treasurer or political agent
of any candidate from being the treasurer or political agent of any
other candidate, and any candidate for public office may designate
himself as his own political agent. No person shall be appointed or
act as treasurer or political agent in any election or primary election
who is not a citizen and resident of the State of Maryland.

1908, ch. 122.

165. Every political committee shall appoint and constantly main-
tain a treasurer to receive, keep and disburse all sums of money, or
other valuable things, which may be collected, received or disbursed
by such committee or by any of its members for any purposes mentioned
in section 164 of this article, or for which such committee exists or
acts, and unless such treasurer is first so appointed and maintained, it
shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for a political committee,
or any of its members, to collect or receive or disburse money, or other
valuable things, for any such purposes. The treasurer appointed under
this sub-title by the state central committee of any party, and the treas-
urer appointed in any county or in the city of Baltimore, by the members
of the state central committee for such county or city of any party,
and the treasurer appointed by the city committee of any party in
the city of Baltimore, before proceeding to act shall give bond to the
State of Maryland in such penalty as the committee by whom he shall
be appointed shall prescribe conditioned for the faithful performance
by him of the duties of his office, without loss or detriment to any
person interested in the performance of such duties; upon which bond
an action may be maintained in the name of the State of Maryland