130 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to nominate for or fill such office or place, make out and file
with the officer empowered by law to issue the certificate of
election to such office or place, and a duplicate thereof with
the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county in which such
candidate resides, or the clerk of the Circuit Court of Balti-
more city, if such candidate resides in said city, a full, true and
itemized statement in writing, which statement and duplicate
shall be subscribed and sworn to by such candidate before an
officer authorized to administer oaths, setting forth in detail all
moneys or other valuable thing or things contributed, expended
or promised by him to aid and promote, or in any way in con-
nection with his nomination or election, or both, as the case
may be, or for other political purpose in connection with the
election of any other person at said election, and all existing
unfulfilled promises or liabilities in that connection remaining
uncancelled and in force at the time such statement is made,
whether such expenditures, promises or liabilities were made or
incurred before, during or after such election, and showing the
dates when, the person to whom and the purposes for which
each and all of said sums or valuable things were paid, ex-
pended or promised, or said liabilities incurred. Such state-
ment shall also set forth that the same is as full and explicit as
the affiant is able to make it. In cases where the office or place
is such that no commission or certificate of election is required
by law to issue therefor, then the original statement aforesaid
shall be filed with the Secretary of State. No person shall be
deemed elected to any elective office under the laws of this State
or enter upon the duties thereof, or receive any salary or emolu-
ments therefrom, until he shall have filed the statement and
duplicate provided for in this section of this article; and no
officer authorized by the laws of this State to issue commis-
sions or certificates of election shall issue a commission or cer-
tificate of election to any person claiming to be elected to any
office, until such statement as aforesaid shall have been so
made, verified and filed by such person with such officer. Any
person violating or failing to comply with any of the provi-
sions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than three hundred
dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned for
not more than two years, or both fined and. imprisoned in the
discretion of the court. Ten days after the period above ascer-
tained for the filing of said original statement shall have ex-
pired, the officer with whom the same is, by this section, re-
quired to be filed, shall notify the proper prosecuting officer of
any failure to file such statement on the part of any candidate,