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The Annotated Code of the Public Civil Laws of Maryland, 1911
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ART. 33] PRIMARY ELECTIONS.. 945

1908, ch. 737, sec. 160 J. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160 M (p. 127).

190. Each of said judges appointed under this sub-title shall have
power to cause the arrest of any one violating any of the provisions
hereof, and in the absence of any person authorized by law to make
arrests said judge may designate some person for that purpose, and
each of the judges shall be conservators of the peace in their respective
primary election polls, at which they may act as such judges, and may,
in the manner herein provided, cause the arrest of any person disturb-
ing the peace, and cause the party so arrested to be committed for the
action of the grand jury or a justice of the peace, as the case may be.

1908, ch. 737, sec. 160 K. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160 N (p. 127).

191. Any judge or clerk f such primary election, or any member
of any committee, or of the governing body of any political party partici-
pating in primary elections under this sub-title, or any delegate to a
convention or party executive, on whom any duty is required in this
sub-title to be performed, who shall be guilty of any wilful violation of
any provision of this sub-title, or of any neglect or corrupt practice in
executing the same, not otherwise provided for herein, he or they shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than one
hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or
by imprisonment in jail for not less than thirty days, nor more than
ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion
of the court.

1908, ch. 737, sec. 160 P. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160 o (p. 127).

192. If any clerk or judge of any such primary election, or any
person performing the duties thereof shall wilfully keep a false poll
list or the book of registry or shall knowingly insert in his poll list or
the book of registry any false statement or name or statement or abbre-
viation of a word or any check, alteration or mark, except as in this
sub-title provided, or who is guilty of concealing, wilfully destroying,
mutilating, defacing, falsifying or fraudulently removing or secreting
the whole or any part of any record registry of voters, return or state-
ment of votes, poll list or any papers, documents, ballots, envelopes or
papers of any description in this sub-title directed to be made, filed or
preserved permanently or until after the votes are canvassed and the
results finally announced, or who shall fraudulently make an entry, era-
si on or alteration therein, except as allowed and directed by the pro-
visions of this sub-title to do, or who permits or encourages any other
person to do so, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of
not less than one hundred dollars ($100) and not more than one thou-
sand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in jail for not less than
ninety days and not more than two years, or by both such fine and
imprisonment, the informer to receive one-half of the fine collected.

1908, ch. 737, sec. 160 Q. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160 P (p. 128).

193. If any person shall wilfully disobey any lawful command of
any judge of such primary election given in the execution of his duty
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