1312 ARTICLE 33.

An. Code, sec. 170. 1908, ch. 122. 1910, ch. 427 (p. 132). 1912, ch. 228, sec. 168.

181. Every candidate for public office, including candidates for the
office of Senator of the United States, shall within thirty days after the
holding of the primary election held to nominate for such office, make out
and file in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which
such candidate resides, or with the clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore
City, if such candidate resides in said city, the statement hereinafter pro-
vided.

Every candidate for public office, including candidates for the office of
Senator of the United States, shall within thirty days after the holding of
the election to fill such office, make out and file in the office of the clerk of
the Circuit Court of the county in which such candidate resides, or with
the clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, if such candidate resides
in said city, the statement hereinafter provided.

It is hereby made the duty of the Supervisors of Elections, within three
days after certification to them of any nomination for any office or place,
to certify to the clerk of the Circuit Court of their county or the clerk of the
Circuit Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be, the names and
addresses of all candidates, including delegates to conventions, nominated
for offices or places within their respective counties, or the City of Balti-
more, as the case may be, together with the name of the office or place for
which each is nominated. The said clerk of the Circuit Court shall, there-
upon, furnish to each person nominated a blank form upon which to make
the statement required by this section.

The said above required statement shall be a full, true and itemized
statement in writing, which statement and duplicate shall be subscribed
and sworn to by such candidate before an officer authorized to administer
oaths, setting forth in detail all moneys or other valuable thing or things
contributed, expended or promised by him to aid and promote, or in any
way in connection with his nomination or election, or both, as the case
may be, or for other political purposes in connection with the election of
any other person at said election, and all existing unfulfilled promises or
liabilities in that connection remaining uncancelled and in force at the
time such statement is made, whether such expenditures, promises or lia-
bilities were made or incurred before, during or after such election, and
showing the dates when the person to whom, and the purposes for which
each and all of said sums or valuable things were paid, expended or prom-
ised, or said liabilities incurred. Such statement shall also set forth that the
same is as full and explicit as the affiant is able to make it.

No person shall be deemed elected to any elective office under the laws
of this State, or enter upon the duties thereof, or receive any salary or
emoluments therefrom, until he shall have filed the statement provided
for in this section of this article; and no officer authorized by the laws
of this State to issue commissions or certificates of election shall issue a
commission or certificate of election to any person claiming to be elected
to any office, until such statement as aforesaid shall have been made, veri-
fied and filed by such person with such officer.