ELECTIONS 1511

addresses of all candidates, including delegates to conventions, nominated
for offices or places within their respective counties, or the City of Balti-
more, as the case may be, together with the name of the office or place for
which each is nominated. The said clerk of the Circuit Court shall, there-
upon, furnish to each person nominated a blank form upon which to make
the statement required by this section.

The said above required statement shall be a full, true and itemized
statement in writing, which statement and duplicate shall be subscribed
and sworn to by such candidate before an officer authorized to administer
oaths, setting forth in detail all moneys or other valuable thing or things
contributed, expended or promised by him to aid and promote, or in any
way in connection with his nomination or election, or both, as the case
may be, or for other political purposes in connection with the election of
any other person at said election, and all existing unfulfilled promises or
liabilities in that connection remaining uncancelled and in force at the
time such statement is made, whether such expenditures, promises or lia-
bilities were made or incurred before, during or after such election, and
showing the dates when the person to whom, and the purposes for which
each and all of said sums or valuable things were paid, expended or prom-
ised, or said liabilities incurred. Such statement shall also set forth that the
same is as full and explicit as the affiant is able to make it.

No person shall be deemed elected to any elective office under the laws
of this State, or enter upon the duties thereof, or receive any salary or
emoluments therefrom, until he shall have filed the statement provided
for in this section of this article; and no officer authorized by the laws
of this State to issue commissions or certificates of election shall issue a
commission or certificate of election to any person claiming to be elected
to any office, until such statement as aforesaid shall have been made, veri-
fied and filed by such person with such officer.

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, 1924, sec. 182. 1912, sec. 171. 1908, ch. 122.

221. 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.