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clerk or challenger at such primary election, in the performance of any
duty required by him or which he may by law be authorized or permitted
to perform, or if any person by any of the means before mentioned or
otherwise unlawfully shall, on any day of primary election, or of canvass
of the returns of such primary election, hinder or prevent any judge, clerk,
challenger and watcher at any primary election, in his free attendance and
presence at the place of holding such primary election or of canvassing
the returns therefrom or in his full and free access to and from any room
where the same is held, or shall molest, interfere with, remove or eject
from any such place of voting or of canvassing, any such judge, clerk or
challenger and watcher, or shall unlawfully threaten or attempt or offer
so to do, every such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not less than
three months nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than twenty-
five dollars ($25) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by both
fine and imprisonment, and the informer shall receive one-half of the fine
collected.

An. Code, sec. 195. 1908, ch. 737, sec. 160S. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160R (p. 129).

1916, ch. 160, sec. 195.

210. If any person upon the day of such primary election, or before
the canvass of the votes is completed, shall conceal or wilfully break or
destroy any ballot-box used or intended to be used at such primary election,
or shall wilfully or fraudulently conceal, secrete or remove any such ballot-
box or the book of registry or any of the ballots, stubs or coupons or other
paraphernalia provided for holding such primaries from the custody of
the judge or judges of primary election or other proper person in charge
thereof, or shall alter, deface, injure or destroy or conceal any ballot which
has been deposited in any ballot-box at such primary election which has
not been counted and canvassed, or any poll list or book of registry used
at such primary election or any report, return, certificate or any evidence
in this sub-title required, or any person who shall print or circulate as an
official ballot one that is not official and complete, he shall, upon conviction
thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony and shall for each and every such
offense be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than
one or more than five years.

An. Code, sec. 196. 1908, ch. 737, sec. 160T. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160S (p. 129).

211. If any judge or clerk of any such primary election shall without
urgent necessity be late at the opening of the polls, or shall absent himself
therefrom during the primary election or during the canvass of the ballots
or the making up of the returns, or shall receive any vote or proceed with
the canvass of ballots, or shall consent thereto, unless a majority of the
judges of the primary election in said election district are present and
concur, he shall upon conviction thereof be adjudged guilty of a misde-
meanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not less than ten
or more than ninety days, or by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) or