1314 ARTICLE 33.

sion of the general assembly of Maryland, or either house thereof. Every
person who shall, directly or indirectly, receive, accept, request or solicit
from any person, candidate, committee, association, organization or cor-
poration, any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument, or any
valuable thing whatsoever, 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 proposition at any election or primary election or
political convention. Every person who, in consideration of any money,
gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument, or any valuable thing what-
soever, paid, received, accepted, or promised to the advantage of himself
or any other person, shall vote, or refrain from voting for or against any
person, or for or against any measure at any such election, caucus or
primary election or political convention. Every person who shall, directly
or indirectly, pay, give, contribute or promise any money or other valu-
able thing, to defray, or towards defraying the costs or expenses of any
campaign or election, to any person, committee, company, club, organiza-
tion or association, other than to a treasurer or a political agent; but this
sub-section or paragraph shall not apply to dues regularly paid for mem-
bership in any incorporated political club if all money expended by such
club for or in connection with the costs or expenses of any campaign or
election shall be paid out by it only through a treasurer or political agent
as provided in this sub-title, or to any expenses for postage, telegrams,
telephoning, stationery, printing, expressage or traveling and board in-
curred by any candidate for office or for nomination thereto, so far as they
are permitted by this sub-title. Every person who shall, directly or indi-
rectly, by himself or through another person, make a payment, or prom-
ised payment, to a treasurer or political agent in any other name than
his own, and every treasurer or political agent who shall knowingly re-
ceive a payment, or promise of payment, and enter the same or cause the
same to be entered in his accounts in any other name than that of the per-
son by whom such payment or promise of payment is made. Every person
who being an employer, pays his employes the salary or wages due in
" pay envelopes," upon which there is written or printed or in which
there is enclosed any political motto, device or argument containing threats,
express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opin-
ions or actions of such employes, or within ninety days of an election or
primary election puts, or otherwise exhibits in the establishment or place
where his employes are engaged in labor, any hand-bill or placard con-
taining any threat, notice or information that if any particular ticket or
candidate is elected or defeated, work in his place, or establishment, will
cease, in whole or in part, his establishment be closed up or the wages of
his employes reduced, or other threats, express or implied, intended or
calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of his employes.
Every person who, before, during, or after an election or primary elec-
tion by himself, or by any other person, either directly or indirectly,
gives or provides, or pays, wholly or in part, the expense of giving or pro-
viding any meat, drink, entertainment or provisions to or for any person
for the purpose of influencing that person, or any other person, to give or