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thereof, shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars, nor more
than two thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not more than two
years, or both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court.

Ten days after the period above ascertained for the filing of said
original statement shall have expired the officer with whom the same
is by this section required to be filed shall notify the proper prosecuting
officer of any failure to file such statement on the part of any candidate,
and within fifteen days thereafter such prosecuting officer shall proceed
to prosecute for such offiense.

1908, ch. 122.

171. Any wilfully false statement or entry made by any candidate
for office, treasurer, political agent or any person acting as treasurer
or political agent, or by any member or officer of any political commit-
tee, in any statement or account under oath required by this sub-title,
shall constitute the crime of perjury, and be punished as such accord-
ing to the laws of this State.

1908, ch. 122.

172. Every officer with whom statements or accounts, or duplicates
thereof are required by any section of this article to be filed, shall
receive and file and preserve such statements or accounts, or duplicates
thereof, in his office, and shall keep the same as part of the records
thereof for at least three years after they are filed. And all such state-
ments and accounts shall, during the hours for which the office in
which they may be filed is open, be subject and open to the inspection
of any citizen of this State, and copies of such statements or accounts,
certified by the officer in whose office they may be so kept, under the
seal of his office, shall be evidence in all the courts to the same extent
as the original thereof would be if produced and proved.

1908, ch. 122.

173. The following persons shall be guilty of corrupt practices and
shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of this sub-title:
Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or by another,
give or offer or promise to any person any money, gift, advantage, pre-
ferment, entertainment, aid, emolument or any valuable thing whatever,
for the purpose of inducing or procuring any person to vote, or refrain
from voting, for or against any person, or for or against any measure or
proposition at any election or primary election or political convention
or session of the general assembly of Maryland, or either house thereof.
Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, receive, accept, request
or solicit from any person, candidate, committee, association, organiza-
tion or corporation, any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolu-
ment, or any valuable thing whatsoever, for the purpose of inducing or
procuring any person to vote, or refrain from voting, for or against any
person, or for or against any measure or proposition at any election or
primary election or political convention. Every person who, in consid-