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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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ELECTIONS 1513

son by whom such payment or promise of payment is made. Every person
who being an employer, pays his employes the salary or wages due in
"pay envelopes," upon which there is written or printed or in which
there is enclosed any political motto, device or argument containing threats,
express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opin-
ions or actions of such employes, or within ninety days of an election or
primary election puts, or otherwise exhibits in the establishment or place
where his employes are engaged in labor, any hand-bill or placard con-
taining any threat, notice or information that if any particular ticket or
candidate is elected or defeated, work in his place, or establishment, will
cease, in whole or in part, his establishment be closed up or the wages of
his employes reduced, or other threats, express or implied, intended or
calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of his employes.
Every person who, before, during, or after an election or primary elec-
tion by himself, or by any other person, either directly or indirectly,
gives or provides, or pays, wholly or in part, the expense of giving or pro-
viding any meat, drink, entertainment or provisions to or for any person
for the purpose of influencing that person, or any other person, to give or
refrain from giving his vote at the election, or primary election, or to
influence his vote in any other way therein or on account of his having
voted, or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from
voting; and every elector who accepts the same, or any of the same, for
any of the purposes aforesaid. Every person who shall be guilty of any
corrupt practice as aforesaid, shall be fined not less than three hundred
dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for not
more than one year, or both, and shall be ineligible to any public office, or
public employment, for the period of four years from and after the time
of the commission of such offense.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 185. 1920, ch. 697, sec. 173A.

224. It shall be unlawful and shall be deemed a corrupt practice for
any person, association, organization, committee or corporation to publish
or distribute or cause to be published or distributed any pamphlet, cir-
cular, card, dodger, poster, advertisement or any printed, multigraphed,
photographed, typewritten or written matter or statement or any matter
or statement which may be copied by any device or method now known for
printing or copying or which may hereafter be used for making copies of
printed or written matter in any form whatever for publication or dis-
tribution, relating to or concerning any candidate or prospective candidate
for public office, unless such pamphlet, circular, card, dodger, poster, ad-
vertisement or other form of publication herein described contains the
name or names of the person or persons, association, committee or corpora-
tion responsible for the publication or distribution of the same, and if an
association, committee or corporation is responsible for the publication
or distribution of the same, there shall be attached the names of the
officers of such association, committee or corporation. Any person violat-
ing any provision of this section, or aiding and abetting the violation
thereof, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than one hundred
($100.00) dollars, nor more than one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, or
be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned.


 

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