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candidate resides, or with the clerk of the circuit court for Baltimore
city, if such candidate reside in said city, the statement hereinafter
provided.

Every candidate for public office, including candidates for the office
of senator of the United States, shall within thirty days after the
holding of the election to fill such office, make out and file in the office
of the secretary of state, and a duplicate thereof with the clerk of the
circuit court of the county in which such candidate resides, or with
the clerk of the circuit court for Baltimore city, if such candidate
resides in said city, the statement hereinafter provided.

It is hereby made the duty of the supervisors of elections within
three days after certification to them of any nomination for any office
or place, to certify to the secretary of state the names and addresses
of all candidates, including delegates to conventions nominated for
offices or places within their respective counties, or the city of Balti-
more, as the case may be, together with the name of the office or place
for which each is nominated.

The said secretary of state shall, thereupon, furnish to each such
person nominated a blank form upon which to make the statement
required by this section.

The said above required statement shall be a full, true and itemized
statement in writing, which statement and duplicate shall be subscribed
and sworn to by such candidate before an officer authorized to admin-
ister oaths, setting forth in detail all moneys or other valuable thing or
things contributed, expended or promised by him to aid and promote,
or in any way in connection with his nomination or election, or both,
as the case may be, or for other political purposes in connection with
the election of any other person at said election, and all existing unful-
filled promises or liabilities in that connection remaining uncanceled
and in force at the time such statement is made, whether such expendi-
tures, promises or liabilities were made or incurred before, during or
after such election, and showing the dates when the person to whom
and the purposes for which each and all of said sums or valuable things
were paid, expended or promised, or said liabilities incurred. Such
statement shall also set forth that the same is as full and explicit as
the affiant is able to make it.

No person shall be deemed elected to any elective office under the
laws of this State, or enter upon the duties thereof or receive any salary
or emoluments therefrom until he shall have filed the statement and
duplicate provided for in this section of this article; and no officer
authorized bv the laws of this State to issue commissions or certificates
of election shall issue a commission or certificate of election to any
person claiming to be elected to any office, until such statement as
aforesaid shall have been so made, verified and filed by such person
with such officer.

Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions
of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction