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valuable thing to any person other than to the treasurer or political agent.
Nothing contained in this sub-title shall limit or affect the right of any
person to expend money for proper legal expenses in maintaining or con-
testing the results of any such elections.

An. Code, sec. 167. 1908, ch. 122. 1912, ch. 228, sec. 165.

178. 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, telephoning, stationery,
printing, advertising, publishing, expressage and traveling 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 sec-
tion, shall not exceed in the whole ten dollars for each one thousand (or the
major portion thereof) up to fifty thousand, 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 pre-
ceding election therefor, all to be paid, handled and disbursed by a treasurer
or political agent, and not otherwise; and any payment, contribution, ex-
penditure 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 addition 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, further,
that any payment, expenditure, contribution, promise or liability which
may be made or incurred, directly or indirectly, by the wife of any candi-
date for an office or nominaton 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 contributions for cam-
paign purposes, which contributions, however, shall be expended in accord-
ance with and subject to the provisions and restrictions of this sub-title.

An. Code, sec. 168. 1908, ch. 122. 1912, ch. 228, sec. 166.

179. It shall be lawful for any treasurer or political agent in con-
nection with any election, or primary election, and in making provisions
therefor, to pay the following expenses: (a) of hiring of halls and music
for the conventions, public meetings and public primaries and for adver-
tising the same; (b) of printing and circulating political articles, circulars,
pamphlets and books; (c) of printing and distributing sample or specimen
ballots and instructions to voters, subject, however, to such prohibitions or
restrictions as may be imposed by this article upon the publication and
distribution of such sample or specimen ballots or instructions; (d) of
renting rooms and headquarters to be used by political committees; (e)
of compensating clerks, stenographers and typewriters employed in the