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the election of any other person at said election, and all exist-
ing unfulfilled promises or liabilities in that connection re-
maining uncanceled and in force at the time such statement is
made, whether such expenditures, promises or liabilities were
made or incurred before, during or after such election, and
showing the dates when the person to whom and the purposes
for which each and all of said sums or valuable things were
paid, expended or promised, or said liabilities incurred. Such
statement shall also set forth that the same is as full and ex-
plicit as the affiant is able to make it.

No person shall be deemed elected to any elective office under
the laws of this State, or enter upon the duties thereof or re-
ceive any salary or emoluments therefrom until he shall have
filed the statement and duplicate provided for in this section
of this Article; and no officer authorized by the laws of this
State to issue commissions or certificates of election shall issue
a commission or certificate of election to any person claiming
to be elected to any office, until such statement as aforesaid
shall have been so made, verified and filed by such person
with such officer.

Any person violating or failing to comply with any of the
provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than three hun-
dred dollars, nor more than two thousand dollars, or impris-
oned for not more than two years, or both fined and impris-
oned, in the discretion of the court.

Ten days after the period above ascertained for the filing
of said original statement shall have expired the officer with
whom the same is by this section required to be filed shall no-
tify the proper prosecuting officer of any failure to file such
statement on the part of any candidate, and within fifteen
days thereafter such prosecuting officer shall proceed to prose-
cute for such offense.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1910.

ARTICLE XXXVI.

FEES OF OFFICERS.

CHAPTER 139.

AN ACT to repeal Section 18 of Article 36 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws of the State of Maryland, entitled "Fees of
Officers," sub-title "Criers," as far as the same applies to