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agree with or encourage a voter to keep his ballot in sight of
any person or persons from the time at which its contents are
known by any such person or persons or his associate or asso-
ciates until delivered to the judge to be deposited in the ballot-
box, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not
less than Fifty ($50. 00) Dollars nor more than. Two Hundred
($200. 00) Dollars, or by imprisonment in jail for not less than
fifteen days nor more than six months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment, and one-half of such fine collected shall be
paid to the informer.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a new section
be and the same hereby is added to said Article 33 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, to follow immediately after
section 198 of said Article, to be known as section 198A, and
to read as follows:

198A. Any and all violations of any of the provisions of
sections 184, 185, 195 and 198 of said Article 33 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland, as the same exist at present, which
may occur or be committed at any time prior to the time when
this Act shall take effect, shall be prosecuted and punished,
either before or after this Act takes effect, in all respects as if
this Act had never been passed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it is hereby de-
clared that this law is an emergency law and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health or safety.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4th, 1916.

CHAPTER 161.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Queen Anne's County to transcribe the docket
entries and judgments in all cases now recorded in the old
appearance dockets of said Court for the terms commenc-
ing with the January Term, 1880, and extending to the
November Term, 1905, inclusive, to the books in the office
of said Clerk containing the trial dockets of said Court,
and to empower and direct the County Commissioners of
Queen Anne's 'County to appropriate for the use of and to