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several legislative districts of Baltimore city for the nomination
for State offices, transmit to the chairman of the State Central
Committee for the whole State of each political party a certi-
fied statement of the number of votes cast in the primary elec-
tions in each of said legislative districts for the several candi-
dates for each State office voted upon in said primary elections.
And the said chairman of the State Central Committee shall
thereupon publish in two daily newspapers in Baltimore city
the said statements so sent to him, and in such publication
the said chairman of the State Central Committee for each of
the said political parties shall declare which candidate of his
party received the greatest number of votes in said legislative
districts of Baltimore city cast by the voters of his party for
each of said State offices. In any year in which the only State
office to be filled by the vote of the people is the office of Comp-
troller of the Treasury of the State, if there be no contest in
any of the legislative districts of Baltimore city for the nomi-
nation of any political party aforesaid for said office of Comp-
troller, the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore city
shall have the right and power to restrict and limit the number
of polling places in each ward of Baltimore city to three poll-
ing places for holding primary elections for the nomination
for such office of Comptroller, and to designate and appoint the
judges and clerks of election who shall serve in said three
polling places in such primary election. It shall be the duty
of the chairman of the State Central Committee for the whole
State of each of said political parties, to read and declare to
the State convention of each of said parties the results of the
primary elections for the nomination for each State office in
the several counties of the State and in the several legislative
districts of Baltimore city, and to declare which candidate in
said primary election for each of said State offices received the
greatest number of votes of his party in each of said county
and legislative districts for each particular State office.

SEC. 160p. If any clerk or judge of any primary election, or
any person performing the duties thereof shall wilfully keep a
false poll list or primary election register or shall knowingly
insert in his poll list or the primary elections register any
false statement, or name or statement or abbreviation of a
word or any check, alteration or mark except as in this Act
provided or who is guilty of concealing, wilfully destroying,
mutilating, defacing, falsifying or fraudulently removing or
secreting the whole or any part of any record, registry of
voters, return or statement of votes, poll list or any papers,
documents, ballots, envelopes or papers of any descrip-
tion in this Act directed to be made, filed or preserved