HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

for such purpose shall have power to summon
witnesses and examine them under oath, to be
administered by the acting chairman of such
committee.

SEC 20. And be it enacted, That it shall be
the duty of the Return Judges of said Elec-
tion, immediately after each election at which
he has acted as such, to appear before the
Grand Jury of the Criminal Court of Balti-
more, to be examined touching any and all

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violations of the provisions of this act, of
which he may have personal knowledge, to
have been committed at such election, or to
furnish to said Grand Jury before their ad-
journment his or their certificate, signed by
him and under oath made and certified before
a. Justice of the Peace of said city, that he did
not know and had no reason to believe that
any such offences had been committed at such
election, which certificate shall be returned by
the Grand Jury to the said Court and preserved
and recorded by the Clerk thereof.

SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That the Return
Judges at any such election shall each receive

Return
Judges— Duty
of.

five dollars per diem, and the other Judges and
Clerks of Election two dollars and a half per
diem for their respective services, to be paid
by and recoverable from the members of the
executive committee of the managing conven-
tion, of the political association under whose
authority the election was called.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That if at any
election held under the terms of this act any
person knowingly personates any voter or votes
in the name of any other person whether liv-
ing, dead or fictitious, or votes more than once

Per diem.

at the same election for any candidate for the
same office, or votes without having a lawful
right to vote, or unlawfully prevents any quali-
fied voter from freely exercising his right to
vote, or interferes in any manner with any
Judge or Clerk of such election in the discharge
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Misdemeanor.