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for the use of any person interested in the faithful performance of
his said duties, and injured by a breach of the condition of said bond.
The premium required to be paid for such bond may be paid by him
out of the funds that shall come into his hands as such treasurer and
shall be allowed to him as a credit in the settlement of his accounts.
All money or other valuable things collected, received or disbursed by
any political committee, or by any member or members thereof, for
any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be paid over to and made to pass
through the hands of the treasurer of such committee and shall be
disbursed by him, and not otherwise; and it shall be unlawful and a
violation of this article for any political committee or for any member
or members of a political committee, to disburse or expend money or
any other valuable things, for any of said purposes until the money
or other valuable things so disbursed or expended shall have passed
through the hands of the treasurer of such committee; and any person
other than a member of such political committee or other than the
political agent, as hereinbefore defined, who shall engage in receiving
or disbursing money for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be deemed
a treasurer of a political committee within the meaning of this article,
and shall be subject to all the requirements, obligations and penalties
hereby provided for and in the case of such treasurer; provided, how-
ever, that the treasurer appointed under this sub-title by the state central
committee of any party, or the treasurer appointed in any county or the
city of Baltimore by the members of the state central committee for
such county or city of any party, or the treasurer appointed by the city
committee of Baltimore city of any party, may appoint one sub-treasurer
for each voting precinct in the said county or city, as the case may be.
which sub-treasurer is authorized to expend such money as may be
placed in his hands by the treasurer appointing him for such purposes
as are lawful under the provisions of this sub-title and for no other
purpose, and it shall be the duty of every such sub-treasurer, within ten
days after every election or primary election, to make a report in writing
under oath to the treasurer appointing him, stating in detail the amount
of money placed in his hands by the said treasurer and for what pur-
poses the said money was expended by him and to whom paid; and it
shall be the duty of every such treasurer to file the report of every sub-
treasurer appointed by him along with and as a part of the account
and statement required to be filed by such treasurer under the provi-
sions of section 169. Any person or persons violating or failing to
comply with any of the provisions of this section or of the preceding
section of this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars
nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than
two years, or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.

1908, ch. 122.

166. Any person nominated as a candidate for public office, or a
candidate for any nomination for public office, may make a voluntary