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committee-rooms, and also of challengers and watchers employed in the
registration rooms, in the voting-rooms and at the polls; (f) the traveling
and other legitimate expenses of political agents, committees and public
speakers; (g) of necessary postage, telegrams, telephoning, printing ex-
penses and conveyance charges for carrying persons to and from the polls,
or to and from the office of registration; (h) the cost and expenses of mes-
sengers sent by direction of the chairman of the State Central Committee
of any political party in connection with party matters or interests, and
also the cost and expenses of any person or persons summoned by or at the
instance of the chairman of the State Central Committee of any political
party to the committee's headquarters or offices in connection with party
matters or interests and also for the accommodation and entertainment of
such persons; (i) all expenses incurred by or under the authority of the
chairman of the State Central Committee of any political party in pro-
viding accommodation and entertainment for the members of the State
Central Committee or for the transportation of such members, when assem-
bling for any meeting of said committee or visiting the headquarters of said
committee in connection with party matters or interests. No treasurer or
political agent shall incur any expense or liability or make any payment for
any purpose not authorized by this section, and every liability incurred and
payment made shall be at a rate which is proper and reasonable and fairly
commensurate with the service rendered. It shall not be lawful for any
treasurer or any political agent to expend any money for printing or publi-
cation of any political matter whatsoever which shall not purport on its
face to be printed or published by the authority of said treasurer or political
agent, and which, if published in any newspaper or other periodical, shall
not be marked as an advertisement. The treasurer appointed and acting
for or in connection with the State Central Committee of the State of any
political party shall not expend or disburse any money or valuable thing,
or incur any liability whatsoever, except by the authority and subject to the
direction of the chairman of the State Central Committee of the State for or
in connection with which said treasurer may be appointed or acting. Every
person expending money in violation of this section or of sections 177 or
178 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.
See note to sec. 176.

An. Code, sec. 169, 1908, ch. 122. 1912, ch. 228, sec. 167.

180. Within twenty days after every election, or primary election,
every treasurer and every political agent shall file a full, true and detailed
account and statement, subscribed and sworn to by him before an officer
authorized to administer oaths, in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court
of the county in which such treasurer or political agent resides, or in the
office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, if such treasurer
or political agent resides in said city, which statement shall include the
amount of money or property in each case received or promised, the name