946 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

at any primary election, or if during any primary election or during
the canvass of votes cast thereat or during any subsequent canvass of
returns shall cause any breach of the peace or be guilty of any dis-
order, violence or threats of violence whereby any such primary elec-
tion or canvass shall be impeded or hindered or whereby the lawful pro-
ceedings of any judge, clerk or challenger or watcher or person desig-
nated to be present during the reception or canvass of any ballots, are
interfered with, any such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be
adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of
not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than five hundred
dollars ($500), or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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

194. If any person knowingly or wilfully shall obstruct, hinder or
assault, or by bribery, solicitation or otherwise interfere with any judge
or clerk or challenger at such primary election, in the performance of
any duty required by him or which he may by law be authorized or per-
mitted to perform, or if any person by any of the means before men-
tioned or otherwise unlawfully shall, on any day of primary election,
or of canvass of the returns of such primary election, hinder or prevent
any judge, clerk, challenger and watcher at any primary election, in
his free attendance and presence at the place of holding such primary
election or of canvassing the returns therefrom or in his full and free
access to and from any room where the same is held, or shall molest,
interfere with, remove or eject from any such place of voting or of
canvassing, any such judge, clerk or challenger and watcher, or shall
unlawfully threaten or attempt or offer so to do, every such person shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished
by imprisonment in jail for not less than three months nor more than
one year, or by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor
more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by both fine and imprison-
ment, and the informer shall receive one-half of the fine collected.

1908, ch. 737, sec. 160s. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160 B (p. 129).

195. If any person upon the day of such primary election, or before
the canvass of the votes is completed, shall conceal or wilfully break or
destroy any ballot box used or intended to be used at such primary elec-
tion, or shall wilfully or fraudulently conceal, secrete or remove any
such ballot box or the book of registry or any of the envelopes, stubs
or coupons or other paraphernalia provided for holding such primaries
from the custody of the judge or judges of primary election or other
proper person in charge thereof, or shall alter, deface, injure or destroy
or conceal any ballot which has been deposited in any ballot box at such
primary election which has not been counted and canvassed, or any
poll list or book of registry used at such primary election, or any report,
return, certificate or any evidence in this sub-title required, or any
person who shall print or circulate as an official ballot one that is not
official and complete, or shall give out or carry away from the custody