660 ELECTIONS—VOTING. [ART. 33.

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 both fine and imprisonment,
in the discretion of the court.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 35, sec. 19. 1805, ch. 97, sec. 26. 1860, ch. 10, sec. 3.

1888, ch 112.

58. Every judge or clerk of election who shall make, sign,
publish or deliver any false tally or return of election, or any
false certificate or statement of the result of an election, knowing
the same to be false, and every judge or clerk of election, or
other officer or person, who shall wilfully deface, destroy or con-
ceal any statement, tally or certificate intrusted to his care and
custody, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a,
misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for
not less than one nor more than tive 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 20. 1853, ch. 133, sec. 1. 1860, ch. 10, sec. 3. 1888, ch. 112.

59. If any person other than a judge of election shall at any
election knowingly and wilfully put or cause to be put any ballot.
or ballots, or other paper having the semblance thereof, into any
box used at such election for the reception of votes; or if any
judge of election shall knowingly or wilfully cause or permit any
ballot or ballots to be in said box at the opening of the polls, and.
before the voting shall have begun; or shall knowingly, wilfully
or fraudulently put any ballot, or other paper having the sem-
blance thereof, into any such box at any election unless the same
shall be offered by a voter whose name shall have been found as
a voter upon the registry as in this article provided; or if any
judge of election, or other officer or person, shall fraudulently,
during the canvass of ballots, in any manner change, substitute:
or alter any ballot taken from the ballot-box then being can-
vassed, or from any ballot-box which has not been canvassed; or
shall remove any ballot or semblance thereof from, or add any
ballot of semblance thereof to the ballots taken from the ballot-
box then being canvassed, every such person shall, upon convic-
tion thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be
punished by imprisonment in jail for not less than one nor more