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burse or expend money or any other valuable things, for any of said purposes
until the money or other valuable things so disbursed or expended shall have
passed through the hands of the treasurer of such committee; and any person
other than a member of such political committee or other than the political
agent, as hereinbefore defined, who shall engage in receiving or disbursing
money for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be deemed a treasurer of a
political committee within the meaning of this article, and shall be subject to
all the requirements, obligations and penalties hereby provided for and in
the case of such treasurer; provided, however, that the treasurer appointed
under this sub-title by the state central committee of any party, or the treas-
urer appointed in any county or the city of Baltimore by the members of the
state central committee for such county or city of any party, or the treasurer
appointed by the city committee of Baltimore city of any party, may ap-
point one sub-treasurer for each voting precinct in the said county or city,
as the case may be, which sub-treasurer is authorized to expend such money
as may be placed in his hands by the treasurer appointing him for such
purposes as are lawful under the provisions of this sub-title and for no
other purpose, and it shall be the duty of every such sub-treasurer, within
ten days after every election or primary election, to make a report in
writing under oath to the treasurer appointing him, stating in detail the
amount of money placed in his hands by the said treasurer and for what
purposes the said money was expended by him and to whom paid; and it
shall be the duty of every such treasurer to file the report of every sub-
treasurer appointed by him along with and as a part of the account and
statement required to be filed by such treasurer under the provisions of
section 180. Any person or persons violating or failing to comply with any
of the provisions of this section or of the preceding section of this article,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than three hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or
imprisoned for not more than two years, or both fined and imprisoned in
the discretion of the court.

The accounts of treasurers appointed by state central committee of any party
or by members of any state central committee for any county or Baltimore city
and of sub-treasurers appointed by them, must inform 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.

An. Code, sec. 166. 1908, ch. 122.

177. Any person nominated as a candidate for public office, or a can-
didate for any nomination for public office, may make a voluntary payment
of money to any treasurer or political agent, subject to the provisions and
restrictions of this sub-title and for any of the purposes permitted by this
sub-title and for no other purposes, and no person other than such a candi-
date shall, to aid or promote the success or defeat of any political party or
principle or of any proposition submitted to vote at any public election, or
of any candidate for public office, or of any candidate for nomination as
such, within six months prior to any such election, make a payment or
contribution of money or property or incur any liability or promise any