ELECTIONS 1483

ployer who shall refuse to allow its or his employe or employees sufficient
time not exceeding four hours within which to vote or who shall directly
or indirectly prevent or hinder its or his employe or employes from ex-
ercising the right herein granted by any form of inducement whatever,
or by threats, express or implied, that the exercise by said employe or em-
ployes of the right herein granted will be followed by a discharge from
said employment or by a reduction in salary or wages, or who shall influ-
ence or attempt to influence its or his employe or employes not to exercise
the right herein granted upon any pretext whatever shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall for each and every offense
pay a fine not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars or be imprisoned
in jail for a period not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of
the court.

See sec. 212.

As to hours of labor, see art. 100.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 100. 1912, sec. 92. 1904, sec. 90. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 84.

136. If any clerk of election, or any person performing the duties of
such clerk shall wilfully keep a false poll-list, or shall knowingly insert
in his poll-list any false statement, or any name or statement, or any check,
alteration or mark, except as in this article provided, he shall, upon con-
viction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by
imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five
years.

See sec. 212.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 101. 1912, sec. 93. 1904, sec. 91. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 85.

137. Every judge of election who shall wilfully exclude any vote duly
tendered, knowing that the person offering the same is lawfully entitled
to vote at such election, or shall wilfully receive a vote from any person
who has been duly challenged in relation to his right to vote at such elec-
tion without exacting from such person such oath or other proof of quali-
fication as may be required by law; or shall wilfully omit to challenge any
person offering to vote whom he knows or suspects to be not entitled to vote,
and who has not been challenged; or shall wilfully refuse to open and show
the ballot-box to be empty prior to the opening of the polls; or shall per-
mit any barricade or obstruction of any kind to be interposed, so that all
who desire can not constantly see such ballot-box, shall upon conviction
thereof be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not
less than three months, nor more than two years.

As to civil liability of judges of election for fraudulently and maliciously refusing to
register a voter, see Friend v. Hamill, 34 Md. 298; Elbin v. Wilson, 33 Md. 142.

See also Hardesty v. Taft, 23 Md. 530.

See sec. 212.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 102. 1912, sec. 94. 1904, sec. 92. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 86.

138. Every judge or clerk of election or other officer or person who
shall make, sign, publish or deliver any false tally or return of an elec-
tion, or any false certificate or statement of the result of an election, know-
ing the same to be false, or who shall wilfuly deface, destroy or conceal
any statement, tally or certificate entrusted to his care and custody, shall
on conviction thereof be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be pun-
ished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more
than ten years.
See sec. 212.