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pointed or act as treasurer or political agent in any election or primary
election who is not a citizen and resident of the State of Maryland.*
See notes to section 165.

165.

The accounts of the treasurers appointed by the state central commit-
tee of any party or by the members of any state central committee for any
county or Baltimore City and of the sub-treasurers appointed by them,
must inform the public not only from whom the money was received, but
to whom it was paid and for what purposes. Healy v. State, 115 Md. 381,

1908, ch. 122. 1912, ch. 228, sec. 1(55.

167. No person other than a treasurer or political agent shall pay
any of the expenses of any election or primary election, except that a
candidate may pay his own expenses for postage, telegrams, telephon-
ing, stationery, printing, advertising, publishing, expressage and trav-
eling and board. The payments, expenditures, promises and liabilities
which any candidate for nomination or for election may make or incur,
directly or indirectly, whether in money or other thing of value, under
this or the preceding section, shall not exceed in the whole ten dollars
for each one thousand (or the major portion thereof) up to fifty thou-
sand, and five dollars for each one thousand (or the major portion
thereof) in excess of fifty thousand of the registered voters qualified
to vote for the office in question at the next preceding election therefor,
all to be paid, handled and disbursed by a treasurer or political agent,
and not otherwise; and any payment, contribution, expenditure of, or
promise or liability to pay, contribute or expend any money or valuable
thing in excess of said sum, shall be unlawful; provided, however, that
a candidate for nomination or for election may pay personally in addi-
tion to said sum or valuable thing or things amounting thereto, his own
expenses for postage, telegrams, telephoning, stationery, printing, ad-
vertising, publishing, expressage, traveling and board (provided, fur-
ther, that any payment, expenditure, contribution, promise or liability
which may be made or incurred, directly or indirectly, by the wife of
any candidate for an office or nomination shall be charged against the
candidate as if made by the candidate himself) ; and provided, further, -
that nothing in this sub-title shall be taken or construed to prohibit the
chairman of the State Central Committee of the State or of any county
or of the City of Baltimore of any political party from soliciting con-
tributions for campaign purposes, which contributions, however, shall
be expended in accordance with and subject to the provisions and re-
strictions of this sub-title.*

1908, ch. 122. 1912, ch. 228, sec. 166.

168. It shall be lawful for any treasurer or political agent in con-
nection with any election, or primary election, and in making provi-

* Section 2 of the act of 1912, chapter 228, contains a very broad "saving"
clause as to prior offenses, pending cases, etc.