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with, delay or hinder in any manner any judge or clerk of
election in the discharge of his duties; or by any such means,
or other unlawful means, knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently
counsel, advise, induce or attempt to induce any judge or clerk
of election, whose duty it is to ascertain, proclaim, announce
or declare the result of any such election, to give or make any
false certificate, document, report, return or other false evi-
dence in relation 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 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
article constituted an offense; or to omit to do any act by law
directed to be done; every such person shall upon conviction
thereof be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the peniten-
tiary for not less than six months nor more than five years.

1900, ch. 71, see. 83 A.

89. At every election, whether national, State or municipal,
hereafter held in this State, every employer, whether a body
corporate, firm or individual shall allow its or his employe or
employes sufficient time, not exceeding four hours, within
which to vote; provided, that the said employer shall have the
right to designate the time when his employe or employes
shall exercise the right herein granted, the employe or employes
to be allowed sufficient time not exceeding four hours. Any
employer, whether a body corporate, firm or individual, and
any officer or agent of any employer who shall refuse to allow
its or his employe or employes sufficient time not exceeding
four hours within which to vote or who shall directly or. indi-
rectly prevent or hinder its or his employe or employes from
exercising the right herein granted by any form of inducement
whatever, or by threats, express or implied, that the exercise
by said employe or employes of the right herein granted
will be followed by a discharge from said employment
or by a reduction in salary or wages, or who shall influence or
attempt to influence its or his employe or employes not to
exercise the right herein granted upon any pretext whatever
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall for each and every offense pay a fine not exceeding the
sum of five hundred dollars or be imprisoned in jail for a