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payment of money to any treasurer or political agent, subject to the
provisions and restrictions of this sub-title and for any of the purposes
permitted by this sub-title and for no other purposes, and no person
other than such a candidate shall, to aid or promote the success or
defeat of any political party or principle or of any proposition submitted
to vote at any public election, or of any candidate for public office, or of
any candidate for nomination as such, within six months prior to any
such election, make a payment or contribution of money or property
or incur any liability or promise any valuable thing to any person
other than to the treasurer or political agent. Nothing contained in
this sub-title shall limit or affect the right of any person to expend
money for proper legal expenses in maintaining or contesting the results
of any such elections.

1908, ch. 122.

167. No person other than a treasurer or political agent shall pay
any of the expenses of any election or primary election, except that a
candidate may pay his own expenses for postage, telegrams, telephon-
ing, stationery, printing, expressage and traveling and board. The
payments, expenditures, promises and liabilities which any candidate
before nomination or election, or both, may make or incur, directly or
indirectly, whether in money or other thing of value, under this or
the preceding section, shall not exceed in the whole twenty-five dollars
for each one thousand (or the major portion thereof), up to fifty thou-
sand and ten dollars for each one thousand (or the major portion
thereof) in excess of fifty thousand of the registered voters qualified to
vote for the office in question at the next preceding election therefor,
all to be paid, handled and disbursed by a treasurer or political agent
and not otherwise; and any payment, contribution, expenditure of, or
promise or liability to pay, contribute or expend any money, or valuably
thing, in excess of said sum, shall be unlawful; provided, however,
that a candidate 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, publishing,
expressage, traveling and board; and provided further, that nothing in
this sub-title shall be taken or construed to prohibit the chairman of
the state centra] committee of the State or of any county or of the city
of Baltimore of any political party from soliciting contributions for
campaign purposes, which contributions, however, shall all be expended
in accordance with and subject to the provisions and restrictions of
this sub-title.

1908, ch. 122.

168. It shall be lawful for any treasurer or political agent in con-
nection with any election, or primary election, and in making provisions
therefor to pay the following expenses: (a) of hiring halls and music
for the conventions, public meetings and public primaries and for adver-