128 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to be made, filed or preserved permanently or until after the
votes are canvassed and the results finally announced, or who
shall fraudulently make an entry, erasion or alteration therein,
except as allowed and directed by the provisions of this sub-
title to do, or who permits or encourages any other person to do
so, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not
less than one hundred dollars ($100) and not more than one
thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in jail for not
less than ninety days and not more than two years, or by both
such fine and imprisonment, the informer to receive one-half of
the fine collected.

160p. If any person shall wilfully disobey any lawful com-
mand of any judge of such primary election given in the execu-
tion of his duty at any primary election, or if during any
primary election or during the canvass of votes cast thereat or
during any subsequent canvass of returns shall cause any
breach of the peace or be guilty of any disorder, violence or
threats of violence whereby any such primary election or can-
vass shall be impeded or hindred or whereby the lawful pro-
ceedings of any judge, clerk or challenger or watcher or person
designated to be present during the reception or canvass of
any ballots, are interferred with, any such person shall, upon
conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars
($25) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by both
such fine and imprisonmet.

160Q. If any person knowingly or wilfully shall obstruct,
hinder or assult, or by bribery, solicitation or otherwise inter-
fere with any judge or clerk or challenger at such primary elec-
tion, in the performance of any duty required by him or which
he may by law be authorized or permitted to perform, or if any
person by any of the means before mentioned or otherwise
unlawfully shall, on any day of primary election, or of can-
vass of the returns of such primary election, hinder or prevent
any judge, clerk, challenger and watcher at any primary elec-
tion, in his free attendance and presence at the place of holding
such primary election or of canvassing the returns therefrom
or in his full and free access to and from any room where the
same is held, or shall molest, interfere with, remove or eject
from any such place of voting or of canvassing, any such judge,
clerk or challenger and watcher, or shall unlawfully threaten
or attempt or offer so to do, every such person shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by
imprisonment in jail for not less than three months nor more
than one year, or by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars