2548 ARTICLE 11.
and the testimony taken in such cases shall be sent up to the Court of
Appeals as part of the record.
Offenses.
1898, ch. 2, sec. 270VVV. 1918 Code, sec-. 424.
399. If at any general registration of voters or at any meeting of a
board of registry held for such purpose or for revision thereof, as pro-
vided in this article, any person shall falsely personate a voter or other
person, and register or attempt, or offer to register in the name of such
voter or other person; or if any person shall register or attempt, or make
application to register in or under the name of any other person, or in
or under any false, assumed or fictitious name, or in or under any name
not his own; or shall register in two election precincts; or, having regis-
rered in one precinct, shall attempt or offer to register in another; or
shall fraudulently register or attempt, or offer to register in any elec-
tion precinct, not having a legal right to register therein; or shall
knowingly or wilfully do any unlawful act to secure registration for him-
self or any other person; or shall knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently,
by false personations or otherwise, or by any unlawful means cause or
procure, or attempt to cause or procure the name of any qualified voter
in any election precinct to be erased or stricken, as in this subtitle of this
Article provided, from any registry of the voters of such precinct made
in pursuance of this subtitle or otherwise; or by force, threat, menace,
intimidation, bribery, reward or offer, or promise thereof, or other unlaw-
ful means prevent, hinder or delay any person having a lawful right to
register or be registered from duly exercising such right; or shall know-
ingly, wilfully or fraudulently compel, or induce or attempt, or offer to
compel or induce by such means, or by any unlawful means any officers
of registration in any election precinct to register, or attempt to register,
any person not lawfully entitled to registration in such precinct, or to
register any false, assumed or fictitious name, or any name of any per-
son, except as provided in this article; or shall knowingly, wilfully or
fraudulently interfere with, hinder or delay any officer of registration in
the discharge of his duties; or counsel, advise or induce, or attempt to
induce any such officer to refuse or neglect to comply with or perform
his duties, or to violate any law prescribed for regulating the same; or
shall aid, counsel, procure or advise any voter, person or officer of regis-
tration to do any act by law forbidden or in this subtitle of this Article
constituting an offense, or to omit to do any act by law directed to be
clone, every such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by
imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary, for not less than six months
nor more than five years.
1898, ch. 2, sec. 270WWW. 1918 Code, sec. 425.
400. If at any election hereafter held in said city, any person shall
falsely personate any voter or other person, and vote or attempt or offer
to vote in or employ the name of such voter or other person, or shall vote
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