1512 ARTICLE 33

An. Code, 1924, sec. 183. 1912, sec. 172. 1908, ch. 122.

222. Every officer with whom statements or accounts, or duplicates
thereof are required by any section of this article to be filed, shall receive
and file and preserve such statements or accounts, or duplicates thereof,
in his office, and shall keep the same as part of the records thereof for
at least three years after they are filed. And all such statements and ac-
counts shall, during the hours for which the office in which they may be
filed is open, be subject and open to the inspection of any citizen of this
State, and copies of such statements or accounts, certified by the officer in
whose office they may be so kept, under the seal of his office, shall be evi-
dence in all the courts to the same extent as the original thereof would be
if produced and proved.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 184. 1912, sec. 173. 1908, ch. 122.

223. The following persons shall be guilty of corrupt practices and
shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of this sub-title:
Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or by another,
give or offer or promise to any person any money, gift, advantage, prefer-
ment, entertainment, aid, emolument or any valuable thing whatever, 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 propo-
sition at any election or primary election or political convention or ses-
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-
ise of 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-