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and within fifteen days thereafter such prosecuting officer shall
proceed to prosecute for such offense.

SEC. 169. Any wilfully false statement or entry made by any
candidate for office, treasurer, political agent or any person act-
ing as treasurer or political agent, or by any member or officer
of any political committee, in any statement or account under
oath required by this Act, shall constitute the crime of perjury,
and be punished as such according to the laws of this State.

SEC. 170. Every officer with whom statements or accounts, or
duplicates thereof are required by any section of this article to
be filed, shall receive and file and preserve such statements or
accounts, or duplicates thereof, in his office, and shall keep the
same as part of the records thereof for at least three years after
they are filed. And all such statements and accounts shall, dur-
ing the hours for which the office in which they may be filed is
open, be subject and open to the inspection of any citizen of
this State, and copies of such statements or accounts, certified
by the officer in whose office they may be so kept, under the
seal of his office, shall be evidence in all the courts to the same
extent as the original thereof would be if produced and proved.

SEC. 171. The following persons shall be guilty of corrupt
practices and shall be punished in accordance with the provi-
sions of this Act. Every person who shall, directly or indi-
rectly, by himself or by another, give or offer or promise to any
person any money, gift, advantage, preferment, entertainment,
aid, emolument or any valuable thing whatever, for the pur-
pose of inducing or procuring any person to vote, or refrain
from voting, for or against "any person, or for or against any
measure or proposition at any election or primary election or
political convention or session of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, or either House thereof. Every person who shall, directly
or indirectly, receive, accept, request or solicit from any person,
candidate, committee, association, organization or corporation,
any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument, or any
valuable thing whatsoever, for the purpose of inducing or pro-
curing any person to vote, or refrain from voting, for or against
any person, or for or against any measure or proposition at any
election or primary election or political convention. Every per-
son who, in consideration of any money, gift, advantage, prefer-
ment, aid, emolument, or any valuable thing whatsoever, paid,
received, accepted or promised to the advantage of himself or
any other person, shall vote, or refrain from voting for or
against any person, or for or against any measure at any such
election, caucus or primary election or political convention.
Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, pay, give, con-