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Bribery.

SEC 5. If any person shall give, or offer to give, directly

or indirectly, or hath given or offered to give, since the

fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, any

bribe, present, or reward, or any promise, or any security

for the payment or delivery of money or any other thing,

to induce any voter to refrain from casting his vote, or

forcibly to prevent him in any way from voting, or to pro-

cure a vote for any candidate or person, proposed or voted

for as Elector of President and Vice-President of the

United States, or Representative in Congress, or for any

office of profit or trust created by the Constitution or laws

of this State, or by the ordinances or authority of the

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the person giving

or offering to give, and the person receiving the same, and

any person who gives or causes to be given an illegal vote,

knowing it to be such, at any election to be hereafter held

in this State, or who shall be guilty of or accessory to any

fraud, force, surprise, or bribery to procure himself or any

other person to be nominated to any office, National, State

or Municipal, shall on conviction in a court of law, in

Penalties.

addition to the penalties now or hereafter to be imposed by

law, be forever disqualified to hold any office of profit or

trust, or to vote at any election thereafter.

Punishment for

SEC 6. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to

Illegal voting
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pass laws to punish with fine and imprisonment any person

who shall remove into any election district or precinct of

any ward of the city of Baltimore, not for the purpose

of acquiring a bona fide residence therein, but for the

purpose of voting at an approaching election, or who shall

vote in any election district or ward in which he does not

reside, (except in the case provided for in this Article), or

shall at the same election vote in more than one election

district or precinct, or shall vote or offer to vote in any

name not his own, or in place of any other person of the

game name, or shall vote in any county in which he does

not reside.

Oath of Office.

SEC. 1. Every person elected or appointed to any office

of trust or profit under this Constitution, or under the