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treasurer or political agent shall relate to any county, city, ward or district
election exclusively, or to any primary election preliminary thereto, such
writing shall be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county
within which such treasurer or political agent resides, or with the clerk of
the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, if such treasurer or political agent
resides in Baltimore City, instead of with the Secretary of State. Every
such writing shall designate the particular period, election or primary
election within which such treasurership or political agency shall continue.
Nothing in this sub-title shall prevent the treasurer or political agent of
any candidate from being the treasurer or political agent of any candidate,
but no candidate for public office or nomination therefor may designate
himself as his own political agent or act as the political agent or treasurer
of any other candidate. No person shall be appointed 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 sec. 176.

An. Code, sec. 165. 1908, ch. 122.

176. Every political committee shall appoint and constantly maintain
a treasurer to receive, keep and disburse all sums of money, or other valu-
able things, which may be collected, received or disbursed by such com-
mittee or by any of its members for any purposes mentioned in section 175
of this article, or for which such committee exists or acts, and unless such
treasurer is first so appointed and maintained, it shall be unlawful and a
violation of this article for a political committee, or any of its members,
to collect or receive or disburse money, or other valuable things, for any
such purposes. The treasurer appointed under this sub-title by the state
central committee of any party, and the treasurer appointed in any county
or in the city of Baltimore, by the members of the state central committee
for such county or city of any party, and the treasurer appointed by the
city committee of any party in the city of Baltimore, before proceeding
to act shall give bond to the State of Maryland in such penalty as the com-
mittee by whom he shall be appointed shall prescribe conditioned for the
faithful performance by him of the duties of his office, without loss or
detriment to any person interested in the performance of such duties; upon
which bond an action may be maintained in the name of the State of
Maryland for the use of any person interested in the faithful performance
of his said duties, and injured by a breach of the condition of said bond.
The premium required to be paid for such bond may be paid by him out
of the funds that shall come into his hands as such treasurer and shall be
allowed to him as a credit in the settlement of his accounts. All money or
other valuable things collected, received or disbursed by any political com-
mittee, or by any member or members thereof, for any of the purposes
aforesaid, shall be paid over to and made to pass through the hands of the
treasurer of such committee and shall be disbursed by him, and not other-
wise ; and it shall be unlawful and a violation of this article for any political
committee or for any member or members of a political committee, to dis-