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($25) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or by both
fine and imprisonment, and the informer shall receive one-half
of the fine collected.

160R. If any person upon the day of such primary election,
or before the canvass of the votes is completed, shall conceal or
wilfully break or destroy any ballot box used or intended to be
used at such primary election, or shall wilfully or fraudulently
conceal, secrete or remove any such ballot box or the book of
registry or any of the envelopes, stubs or coupons or other
paraphernalia" provided for holding such primaries from the
custody of the judge or judges of primary election or other
proper person in charge thereof, or shall alter, deface, injure
or destroy or conceal any ballot which has been deposited in
any ballot box at such primary election which has not been
counted and canvassed, or any poll list or book of registry
used at such primary election, or any report, return, certificate
or any evidence in this subtitle required, or any person who
shall print or circulate as an official ballot one that is not offi-
cial and complete, or shall give out or carry away from the
custody of the election judges any official envelope for voting
otherwise than as provided by this Article, he shall, upon con-
viction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony and shall for
each and every such offense be punished by imprisonment in

the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years.

160s. If any judge or clerk of any such primary election
shall without urgent necessity be late at the opening of the
polls, or shall absent himself therefrom during the primary
election or during the canvass of the ballots or the making up
of the returns, or shall receive any vote or proceed with the
canvass of ballots, or shall consent thereto, unless a majority
of the judges of the primary election in said election district
are present and concur, he shall upon conviction thereof be
adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by
imprisonment in jail for not less than ten or more than ninety
days, or by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) or more
than two hundred dollars ($200), or by both such fine and
imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

160T. Whoever, during the hours of any such primary elec-
tion or canvass of votes or of making returns thereof in any
election district, shall bring, take, order or send into, or shall
attempt to bring or take or send into any place of such pri-
mary election any distilled or spirituous liquors, wine, ale or
beer, or shall at any such time and place, drink or partake of
such liquor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon
conviction thereof, be fined not less than ten dollars ($10) or