ELECTIONS. 1313

Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of
this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars nor more than two thou-
sand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both fined and
imprisoned, in the discretion of the Court.

Ten days after the period above ascertained for the filing of said original
statement shall have expired the officer with whom the same is by this
section required to be filed shall notify the proper prosecuting officer of his
county or Baltimore City, as the case may be, of the failure to file such
statement on the part of any candidate, and within fifteen days thereafter
such prosecuting officer shall proceed to prosecute for such offense.

The provisions of this section, including the provisions with respect to
the time of filing said reports, shall be mandatory and not directory and
must be strictly performed as above prescribed.

This section is not applicable to members of state central committee, although they
are subject to other provisions of corrupt practices act. Usilton v. Bramble, 117
Md. 15 (decided prior to act, 1912, ch. 228).

An. Code, sec. 171. 1908, ch. 122.

182. Any wilfully false statement or entry made by any candidate
for office, treasurer, political agent or any person acting as treasurer or
political agent, or by any member or officer of any political committee,
in any statement or account under oath required by this sub-title, shall
constitute the crime of perjury, and be punished as such according to the
laws of this State.

An. Code, sec. 172. 1908, ch. 122.

183. Every officer with whom statements or accounts, or duplicates
thereof are required by any section of this article to be filed, shall receive
and file and preserve such statements or accounts, or duplicates thereof,
in his office, and shall keep the same as part of the records thereof for
at least three years after they are filed. And all such statements and ac-
counts shall, during the hours for which the office in which they may be
filed is open, be subject and open to the inspection of any citizen of this
State, and copies of such statements or accounts, certified by the officer in
whose office they may be so kept, under the seal of his office, shall be evi-
dence in all the courts to the same extent as the original thereof would be
if produced and proved.

An. Code, sec. 173. 1908, ch. 122.

184. The following persons shall be guilty of corrupt practices and
shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of this sub-title:
Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or by another,
give or offer or promise to any person any money, gift, advantage, prefer-
ment, entertainment, aid, emolument or any valuable thing whatever, for
the purpose of inducing or procuring any person to vote, or refrain from
voting, for or against any person, or for or against any measure or propo-
sition at any election or primary election or political convention or ses-
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