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nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for not more than
one year, or both, and shall be ineligible to any public office, or public
employment, for the period of four years from and after the time of
the commission of such offense.

1908, ch. 122.

174. It shall be unlawful and shall be deemed a corrupt practice for
any corporation, incorporated under the laws of Maryland or of any
State or territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or
of the United States, or of any other country directly or indirectly, by
itself, or through any officer, agent or employe, representative, or other
person whatsoever, to give, contribute, furnish, lend or promise any
money, property, transportation, means or aid to any political party, or
any candidate for public office, or for nomination thereto, or to any
political organization, or to any political committee, or to any treasurer
or political agent, as herein defined, either directly or indirectly, to
aid, promote or influence the success or defeat of any political party or
principle, or of any measure or proposition submitted to a vote at a
public election or primary election in this State, or to aid, promote or
influence in any manner the election or defeat of a candidate therein,
or to be used, applied or expended in any way whatever for political
purposes. The president, the several directors and every other officer
of any corporation which shall violate any of the provisions of this
section, and the president or director, or other officer, or agent of any
corporation, who shall personally violate any of the provisions of this
section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished
by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars for each offense, and
imprisonment for not more than three years in jail or penitentiary.

1908, ch. 122.

175. At any time within thirty days after any election or primary
election held under the laws of this State, any defeated candidate at
such election, or any ten duly qualified voters at such election, may
present to the circuit court of any county, or to the superior court of
Baltimore city, a petition setting forth under oath that corrupt prac-
tices, contrary to the provisions of any section of this article, were com-
mitted at or preliminary to such election, within the county or city afore-
said, naming the successful candidate or candidates as defendant or
defendants, and praying that the facts alleged may be inquired into.
If the court, upon the affidavit or affidavits filed with such petition, or
upon and after such preliminary hearing as it may see fit to institute,
including such notice and representation to the party or parties named
as the defendant or defendants in said petition, as the ends of justice
may require, shall be satisfied that the purposes of this sub-title and the
interests of public justice require further proceedings upon such peti-
tion, and against the party or parties named as defendant or defend-
ants therein, it shall order such reasonable notice of such petition, or
of such further proceedings, to be given the defendant or defendants, and
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