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nominated a blank form upon which to make the statement required
by this section.

The said above required statement shall be a full, true and item-
ized statement in writing, which statement and duplicate shall be sub-
scribed and sworn to by such candidate before an officer authorized
to administer oaths, setting forth in detail all moneys or other valuable
thing or things contributed, expended or promised by him to aid and
promote, or in any way in connection with his nomination or election,
or both, as the case may be, or for other political purposes in connection
with the election of any other person at said election, and all existing
unfulfilled promises or liabilities in that connection remaining uncan-
celled and in force at the time such statement is made, whether such,
expenditures, promises or liabilities were made or incurred before,
during or after such election, and showing the dates when the person
to whom, and the purposes for which each and all of said sums or
valuable things were paid, expended or promised, or said liabilities
incurred. Such statement shall also set forth that the same is as full
and explicit as the affiant is able to make it...

No person shall be deemed elected to any elective office under the
laws of this State, or enter upon the duties thereof, or receive any
salary or emoluments therefrom, until he shall have filed the state-
ment provided for in this section of this article; and no officer author-
ized by the laws of this State to issue commissions or certificates of
election shall issue a commission or certificate of election to any person
claiming to be elected to any office, until such statement as aforesaid
shall have been made, verified and filed by such person with such
officer.

Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions
of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined not lees than three hundred dollars nor more
than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned 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 prosecut-
ing officer of his county or Baltimore City, as the case may be, of the
failure to file such statement on the part of any candidate, and within
fifteen days thereafter such prosecuting officer shall proceed to prose-
cute for such offense.

The provisions of this section, including the provisions with respect
to the time of filing said reports, shall be mandatory and not directory
and must be strictly performed as above prescribed.*

This section is not applicable to members of the state central commit-
tee, although they are subject to other provisions of the Corrupt Practices
Act. Usilton v. Bramble, 117 Md. 15 (decided prior to the Act of 1912,
chapter 228).

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