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rupt practice as aforesaid, shall be fined not less than three
hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or
be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both, and shall be
ineligible to any public office, or public employment, for the
period of four years from and after the time of the commission
of such offense.

SEC. 172. It shall be unlawful and shall be deemed a corrupt
practice for any corporation, incorporated under the laws of
Maryland or of any State or Territory of the United States, or
the District of Columbia, or of the United States, or of any
other country, directly or indirectly, by itself, or through any
officer, agent or employe, representative, or other person what-
soever, to give, contribute, furnish, lend or promise any money,
property, transportation, means or aid to any political party, or
any candidate for public office, or for nomination thereto, or to
any political organization, or to any political committee, or to
any treasurer or political agent, as herein defined, either
directly or indirectly, to aid, promote or influence the success or
defeat of any political party or principle, or of any measure or
proposition submitted to a vote at a public election or primary
election in this State, or to aid, promote or influence in any
manner the election or defeat of a candidate therein, or to be
used, applied or expended in any way whatever for political
purposes. The president, the several directors and every other
officer of any corporation which shall violate any of the provi-
sions of this section, and the president or director, or other
officer, or agent of any corporation, who shall personally violate
any of the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than
five thousand dollars for each offense, and imprisonment for not
more than three years in jail or penitentiary.

SEC. 173. At any time within thirty days after any election
or primary election held under the laws of this State, any de-
feated candidate at such election, or any ten duly qualified
voters at such election, may present to the Circuit Court of any
county, or to the Superior Court of Baltimore city, a petition
setting forth under oath that corrupt practices, contrary to
the provisions of any section of this article, were commit-
ted at or preliminary to such election, within the county
or city aforesaid, naming the successful candidate or candi-
dates as defendant or defendants, and praying that the
facts alleged may be inquired into. If the court, upon
the affidavit or affidavits filed with such petition, or
upon and after such preliminary hearing as it may see fit
to institute, including such notice and representation to the
party or parties named as the defendant or defendants in said