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or perform his duties, or to violate any law prescribed for
regulating the same; or shall aid, counsel, procure or advise
any voter, person or officer of registration to do any act by
law forbidden, or in this Article constituting an offense, or
to omit to do any act by law directed to be done, every such
person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by im-
prisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less than six
months nor more than five years.

118. Whoever shall, except as in this Article otherwise
provided, allow his ballot to be seen by any person with the
apparent intention of letting it be known how he is about
to vote, or place any distinguishing mark upon his ballot,
or who shall make a false statement as to his inability to
mark his ballot, or to operate a voting machine, or who shall
interfere or attempt to interfere with any voter when inside the
enclosed space in the polling-room, or when marking his ballot,
or when operating a voting machine, or who shall endeavor
to induce any voter before voting to show how he marks or
has marked his ballot, or shall, between the time of the open-
ing and the time of the closing of the polls, open the door or
other covering concealing the counters of any voting machine,
except as provided by Section 224-K (i) of this Article, shall
be punished by fine of not less than live ($5) dollars nor more
than one hundred ($100) dollars, or by imprisonment in jail
for a period not exceeding sixty days, or by both fine and
imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

127. The compensation of all judges and clerks of election
in the City of Baltimore, except in those precincts in which,
after 1939, voting machines shall be used, and in the counties
shall be increased two dollars ($2. 00) per day over and above
the amount allowed and paid prior to the passage of Chapter
1 of the Acts of the General Assembly in special session in the
year 1920. The Boards of Supervisors of Elections of the sev-
eral counties shall have power, with the consent of the County
Commissioners to increase the compensation of the registra-
tion officials not more than $2. 00 per day in addition to the
amount allowed and paid, prior to the passage of said Act.
Provided, however, that this Section shall not apply to Queen
Anne's or Worcester Counties.

132. At least thirty days before every State election the
Attorney General shall prepare full instructions for the guid-
ance of the voters at such election as to obtaining ballots,
as to the manner of marking them, and as to obtaining new
ballots in place of those accidentally destroyed, with such
other instructions as shall in his opinion be necessary and