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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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reward, or offer of reward, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by
imprisonment in jail for not more than sixty days, or by a fine
of not more than three hundred dollars, or both fine and im-
prisonment, in the discretion of the Court.

New sections
added.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the following sections be
and the same are hereby added to the said chapter 261 of the
Acts of 1892, as an integral part thereof, to follow immedi-
ately after section 11 of the said chapter, and to be known as
sections 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.

Guilty of
misdemeanor

Section 12. Every judge at any primary election who shall
wilfully exclude any vote duly tendered, knowing that the
person offering the same is entitled to vote at such election, or
shall wilfully receive a vote from any person who has been
duly challenged in relation to his right to vote at such elec-
tion, without exacting from such person such oath or other
proof that he is legally a registered voter in the precinct
where he applies to vote, and has not previously voted at said
election, or whom he knows or suspects to be not entitled to
vote, and who has not been challenged, or shall wilfully
refuse to open and show the ballot-box to be empty prior to
the opening of the polls, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof be punished by
imprisonment in jail for not less than one month or more
than a year, or by a fine of not less than fifty dollars or more
than three hundred dollars, or both fine and imprisonment, in
the discretion of the Court.

Unlawful to
conceal,
break or
destroy any
ballot-box,
etc.

Section 13. If any person upon the day of any primary
election, or before the canvass of votes is completed, shall
conceal or wilfully break or destroy any ballot-box used or
intended to be used at such election, or shall willfully or
fraudulently conceal, secrete or remove any such box from the
custody of the judges of election or any official in charge
thereof, or shall alter, deface, injure or destroy or conceal any
ballot which has been deposited in any ballot-box at such elec-
tion, which has not been counted and canvassed, or any poll
list used at such election, or any report, return or certificate
of any such election, he shall, on conviction thereof, be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by
imprisonment in jail for not less than one month or more than
one year, or by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more
than four hundred, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the
discretion of the Court.
Section 14. Any judge or clerk of any primary election or
other officer or person who shall make, sign, publish or deliver
any false tally or return of any primary election, or any false