652 ELECTIONS—REGISTRATION. [ART. 33.

1882, ch. 22, sec. 35.

38. If any person shall fraudulently register or attempt to
register in any election district or election precinct in this State,
in the name of any other person living or dead, or under any
fictitious name, or shall fraudulently cause himself to be regis-
tered, or attempt to cause himself to be fraudulently registered
In any election district or election precinct in this State, knowing
that he has not the right to be registered in such election district

or election precinct, or shall by force, threat, menace, intimi-
dation or other unlawful means prevent or hinder, or endeavor
to prevent or hinder any person having a lawful right to regis-
ter from duly exercising such right, or shall compel, or

endeavor to compel, by any such means, any officer of registra-
tion to admit to registration any person not legally entitled

thereto, or shall unlawfully interfere with any officer of
registration in the discharge of his duties under this article, or
shall make any assault or commit any assault and battery, or
incite or create any riot, or any breach of the peace, at or near to
any place of registration in this State, during the sittings of any
officer of registration provided for by this article, he shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof by a com-
petent court shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hun-

dred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three years, or

by both fine and imprisonment as aforesaid.
State v. Bixler, 62 Md. 354.

Ibid. sec. 36.

39. If any clerk of court, sheriff or member of the board of
police commissioners for the city of Baltimore, officer of regis-
tration, or judges of election shall lose any registry of voters or

poll-book which may be in his charge or custody, or if any such
officers or any other person shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, de-
face, falsify or fraudulently remove or secrete any registry of
voters or list of qualified and registered voters, or shall fraudu-
lently make any false entry in, or false copy of, any registry of
voters or part thereof, or shall fraudulently make any entry,
erasure or alteration in any registry of voters or lists of qualified
and registered voters or part thereof, he shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a