132 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tribute or promise any money or other valuable thing, to defray,
or towards defraying the costs or expenses of any campaign or
election, to any person, committee, company, club, organiza-
tion or association, other than to a treasurer or a political
agent; but this sub-section or paragraph shall not apply to dues
regularly paid for membership in any incorporated political
club if all money expended by such club for or in connection
with the costs or expenses of any campaign or election shall be
paid out by it only through a treasurer or political agent as
provided in this Act, or to any expenses for postage; telegrams,
telephoning, stationery, printing, expressage or traveling and
board incurred by any candidate for office or for nomination
thereto, so far as they are permitted by this Act. Every per-
son who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or through an-
other person, make a payment, or promise of payment, to a
treasurer or political agent in any other name than his own,
and every treasurer or political agent who shall knowingly re-
ceive a payment, or promise of payment, and enter the same or
cause the same to be entered in his accounts in any other name
than that of the person by whom such payment or promise of
payment is made. Every person who being an employer, pays
his employes the salary or wages due in "pay envelopes, " upon
which there is written or printed or in which there is enclosed
any political motto, device or argument containing threats, ex-
press or implied, intended or calculated to influence the politi-
cal opinions or actions of such employes, or within ninety days
of an election or primary election puts, or otherwise ex-
hibits in the establishment or place where his employes are en-
gaged in labor, any hand-bill or placard containing any threat,
notice or information that if any particular ticket or candidate
is elected or defeated, work in his place, or establishment, will
cease, in whole or in part, his establishment be closed up, or the
wages of his employes reduced, or other threats, express or im-
plied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions
or actions of his employes. Every person who, before, during,
or after an election or primary election by himself, or by any
other person, either directly or indirectly, gives or provides, or
pays, wholly or in part, the expense of giving or providing any
meat, drink, entertainment or provisions to or for any person
for the purpose of influencing that person, or any other person,
to give or refrain from giving his vote at the election, or pri-
mary election, or to influence his vote in any other way therein,
or on account of his having voted, or refrained from voting, or
being about to vote or refrain from voting; and every elector
who accepts the same, or any of the same, for any of the pur-
poses aforesaid. Every person who shall be guilty of any cor-