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thereto; or to refuse or neglect to comply with his duty, or to
violate any law regulating the same, or to receive the vote of any
person in any election district or precinct not entitled to vote
therein, or to refuse to receive the vote of any person entitled to
vote therein, or shall aid, counsel, advise, procure, or assist any
voter, person or judge of election or other officer of election to do
any act by law forbidden or in this act constituted on offence, or
to omit to do any act by law directed to be done, every such per-
son shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not less
than one nor more than five years, or by a fine not exceeding one
thousand dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discre-
tion of the court.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 35, sec. 17. 1805, ch 97, sec. 12. 1860, ch. 10, sec. 3.

1888, ch. 112.

56. If any clerk of election, or any person performing the

duties of such clerk, shall wilfully keep a false poll list, or shall
knowingly insert in his poll list any false statement, or any name,

or statement, or any check, alteration, or mark, except as in this
article provided, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment
in jail for not less than one nor more than five years, or by a fine
not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both fine and imprison-
ment, in the discretion of the court.

Ibid. sec. 18. 1805, ch. 97, sec. 25. 1860, ch 10, sec 3. 1888, ch. 112.

57. Every judge of election who shall wilfully exclude any
vote duly tendered, knowing that the person offering the same is
lawfully entitled to vote at such election; or shall wilfully receive
a vote from any person who has been duly challenged in relation
to his right to vote at such election, without exacting from such
person such oath or other proof of qualification as may be re-
quired by law; or shall wilfully omit to challenge any person
offering to vote whom he knows, or has reasonable cause to
believe, to be not entitled to vote, and who has not been chal-
lenged ; or shall wilfully refuse to open and show the ballot-box
to be empty prior to the opening of the polls; or shall permit
any barricade or obstruction of any kind to be interposed, so
that all who desire cannot constantly see such ballot-box, shall,