FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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7. No primary election shall be held unless at least two

weeks' notice of the holding of the same shall be given by

Two weeks'
notice.

publication at least once a week in one or more papers pub-

lished in the said county.

8. At any time before or during any such primary election,

held for the purpose herein provided the candidates, or a

Bight to

majority thereof named on any ticket to be voted for at such

name chal-
lenger-

primary election, shall have the right to name one person as

challenger at the polls for such election ; and said challen-

gers and each of them shall be entitled to be present at such

election in the room occupied as the polling place, at least

fifteen minutes before any ballot box shall be opened, until

the close of the election and the signing of the proper

returns.

9. If at any primary election, precinct meeting or other

meeting in Baltimore County, oi any political party, held

Fraudulent

for the purpose of selecting one or more candidates for public

voting.

office to be voted for by the people of said county, or for the

purpose of selecting delegates to any convention of such

political party, any person shall knowingly personate and

vote, or attempt to vote, in the name of any other person

whether living, dead or fictitious ; or vote or attempt to vote

more than once at the same primary, election, precinct meet-

ing or any other meeting for any candidate for nomination

to the same office, or delegateship to any convention, or

knowingly and fraudulently vote or attempt to vote at a

place where he is not entitled to vote, or by force, threat,

intimidation, bribery, reward or offer thereof, unlawfully

prevent any person entitled to vote at such primary election,

precinct meeting or other meeting from freely exercising his

right to vote thereat, or by any such means induce or compel

any person entitled to so vote to refuse to or abstain from

exercising such right, or induce or compel, by any such

means, any judge or other officer of any such primay elec-

tion, precinct meeting or other meeting to receive a vote from

any person not entitled, to cast such vote, he shall on convic-

tion thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be pun-
ished by imprisonment in jail for not more than thirty days,

Penalty

or by fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by

both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of

the court.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That before any persons shall

act as judges of any such primary election, precinct meeting

or other meeting mentioned in this act, they shall make

Oath

oath that they, will discharge their duties as such judges,

honestly and fairly, which oath shall be taken by said

judges, before some justice of the peace of said county, which

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