386 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

1886, ch. 602.

293. The return judges at any such election shall each receive
five dollars per diem, and the other judges and clerks of election,
two dollars and a-half per diem, for their respective services, to be
paid by and recoverable from the members of the executive com-
mittee of the managing convention of the political association
under whose authority the election was called.

Ibid.

294. If at any election held under the terms of this sub-title
of this article, any person knowingly personates any voter, or
votes in the name of any other person, whether living, dead or
fictitious, or votes more than once at the same election for any
candidate for the same office, or votes without having a lawful
right to vote, or unlawfully prevents any qualified voter from
freely exercising his right to vote, or interferes in any manner
with any judge or clerk of such, election in the discharge of his
duties, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished, upon
conviction, by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment for not more than thirty days.

Ibid.

295. If any judge or clerk of election shall fraudulently make
any false certificate of the result of such election, or withhold,
conceal or destroy any such certificate of any election returns,
tally lists or poll-book, or take unlawfully from the custody of
the judges of election, or destroy any ballot-box, or withdraw
therefrom illegally any ballot or ballots which have been de-
posited therein, or attempt or commit any violence against any
person having lawful charge of the same, or against any judge or
clerk of election in the discharge of his duty as such, he shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished, upon conviction, by a
fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment
of not more than thirty days.

Ibid.

296. The failure to make any of the publications by this sub-
title of this article required to be made, except the publication
required by section 275, shall not affect the validity of any elec-