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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1924
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1284 ARTICLE 33.

directed to be done; every such person shall upon conviction thereof be
punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less than
six months nor more than five years.

Sec. 55 of the Code of 1888 (dealing with attempts to vote by personating another
person), was not repealed or modified by act of 1890, ch. 538. Indictment under
this section. Fleet v. State, 74 Md. 553.

See sec. 173.

An. Code, sec. 91. 1904, sec. 89. 1900, ch. 71, sec. 83A.

99. At every election, whether national, State or municipal, hereafter
held in this State, every employer, whether a body corporate, firm or in-
dividual shall allow its or his employe or employes sufficient time, not ex-
ceeding four hours, within which to vote; provided, that the said employer
shall have the right to designate the time when his employe or employes
shall exercise the right herein granted, the employe or employes to be
allowed sufficient time not exceeding four hours. Any employer, whether
a body corporate, firm or individual, and any officer or agent of any em-
ployer who shall refuse to allow its or his employe or employes sufficient
time not exceeding four hours within which to vote or who shall directly
or indirectly prevent or hinder its or his employe or employes from ex-
ercising the right herein granted by any form of inducement whatever,
or by threats, express or implied, that the exercise by said employe or em-
ployes of the right herein granted will be followed by a discharge from
said employment or by a reduction in salary or wages, or who shall influ-
ence or attempt to influence its or his employe or employes not to exercise
the right herein granted upon any pretext whatever shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall for each and every offense
pay a fine not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars or be imprisoned
in jail for a period not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of
the court.

See sec. 173.

As to hours of labor, see art. 100.

An. Code, sec. 92. 1904, sec. 90. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 84.

100. If any clerk of election, or any person performing the duties of
such clerk shall wilfully keep a false poll-list, or shall knowingly insert
in his poll-list any false statement, or any name or statement, or any check,
alteration or mark, except as in this article provided, he shall, upon con-
viction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by
imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five
years.

See sec. 173.

An. Code, sec. 93. 1904, sec. 91. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 85.

101. Every judge of election who shall wilfully exclude any vote duly
tendered, knowing that the person offering the same is lawfully entitled
to vote at such election, or shall wilfully receive a vote from any person

 

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