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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

37. If any officer of registration shall fraudulently register or

fraudulently permit to be registered in any registry of voters in

his charge as officer of registration, any person who is not entitled

to be registered therein as a qualified voter, or if any other per-

son not authorized by the proper judges shall inscribe the name

Fraudu-
lent reg-

of any person as a qualified and registered voter in any registry

istration

of voters, or if any officer of registration shall fraudulently refuse

or omit to register or shall fraudulently misspell in any registry

of voters in his charge as an officer of registration, the name of

any person entitled under the provisions of this article to have

his name inscribed in such registry of voters, or if any officer of

registration shall fraudulently strike from any registry of voters

in his charge as an officer of registration, the name of any quali-

fied and registered voter entitled to remain inscribed upon such

registry of voters, or if any person not authorized by the proper

order of the registration judges shall fraudulently strike from

any registry of voters the name of any person therein inscribed

as a qualified and registered voter, or if any officer of registration

shall enter the name of any person as a qualified voter in any

registry of voters in his charge as an officer of registration at any

time except on a day appointed by this article for one of his pub-

lic sittings as an officer of registration, and except between the

hours appointed for such public sittings, or if any officer of reg-

istration shall do any act which is by this article forbidden to be

by him done, or shall omit to do any act which is by this article

Penalty

required to be by him done, such officer of registration whether

he be a principal or assistant officer, or such other person so

offending as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon

conviction thereof by a competent court shall be punished by a

fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not

exceeding three years or by both fine and imprisonment as afore-

said.

39. If any clerk of court, sheriff or member of the board of

police commissioners for the city of Baltimore or the board of

Penalty

supervisors of elections in Baltimore city, officer of registration

for fraud-
ulent en-

or judges of election shall lose any registry of voters whi'ch may

try, etc.,

be in his or their charge or custody, or if any such officer or any

in regis-

other person shall wilfully destroy mutilate, deface, falsify or

try

fraudulently remove or secrete any registry of voters, or shall

fraudulently make any false entry in or false copy of any registry

of voters, or part thereof, or shall fraudulently make any entry,

erasure, or alteration in any registry of voters or part thereof, he

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall

be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by

imprisonment not exceeding three years or by both fine and im-

prisonment as aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That sections fifteen and