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The Maryland Code, Public Local Laws, 1888
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ART. 1. ] ELECTIONS—PRIMARY. 47

such vote shall be first sworn in as aforesaid; or shall in any
manner fraudulently and wrongfully deposit or put any ballots
into or take any from the ballot-box of said primary election, or
shall fraudulently and wrongfully mix any ballots with those cast
at said primary election, or shall knowingly make any false count,
canvass, statement, certificate or return of the ballots or vote
taken at such primary election, he shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.

1888, ch. 181.

110. No person shall be entitled to vote at any political
primary election unless of the age of twenty-one years, and a
citizen of the United States, and duly registered as a lawful voter
in the election district where said primary election is being held;
provided, however, that he shall be entitled to vote thereat upon
his sworn statement that he will be entitled to registration in said
district at any sitting of the register of such district held subse-
quent to said primary and previous to the ensuing general election
in said county.

Ibid.

111. If any person elected a delegate at any such primary

election or convention shall accept or receive any money or
valuable thing as a consideration for his vote as such delegate, he
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Ibid.

112. If any person shall persuade, or endeavor to persuade,
any delegate elected at any such primary or convention, to vote
for a particular candidate, by offering or giving him any money

-or valuable thing as a consideration for his vote as such delegate,
he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Ibid

113. The punishment of any of the offences in this sub-title
of this article declared to be misdemeanors shall be a fine not
exceeding one thousand nor less than five hundred dollars, or
imprisonment not exceeding one year nor less than six months,
in the county jail, or both such fine and imprisonment.

 

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