1820 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 935

SEC. 25. If at any election hereinafter held in the City of
Havre de Grace any person shall falsely impersonate any voter
and vote or attempt or offer to vote in or upon the name of
such voter, or shall vote or attempt to vote in or upon the name
of any other person whether living or dead, or in or upon any
false assumed or fictitious name, or in or upon any name not
his own, or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently vote
more than once for any candidate for the same office, except
as authorized by law; or shall vote or attempt or offer to vote
without being registered therein as a legal voter, or shall vote
more than once, or having once voted, shall vote, or attempt
or offer to vote again, or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudu-
lently do any unlawful act to secure for himself or for any
other person, a right or opportunity to vote, or shall by force
threat, menace, intimidation, bribery or reward, or offer or
promise thereof, or otherwise unlawfully, either directly or in-
directly influence or attempt to influence any voter in giving
his vote or prevent or hinder, or attempt to prevent or hinder
any qualified voter from freely exercising the right of suffer-
age, or by any such means induce or attempt to induce any
voter to exercise any such right or shall by any such
means compel or induce or attempt to compel or induce
any judge of election, or other officer of election, to receive the
vote of any person not legally qualified or entitled to vote at
the said election in such precinct, or shall knowingly, will-
fully or fraudulently interfere with, delay or hinder in any
manner any judge of election, poll clerk or other officer of elec-
tion in the discharge of his duties, or by any such means, or
other unlawful means knowingly, willfully or fraudulently
counsel, advise, induce or attempt to induce any Judge of
Election, poll clerk or other officer of election whose duty it
is to ascertain, proclaim, announce or declare the result of any
such election, to give or to make any false certificate, docu-
ment, report or other false evidence in relation thereto, or to
refuse or neglect to comply with his duty, or to violate any
law regulating the same or to receive the vote of any person
not entitled to vote, or to refuse to receive the vote of any per-
son entitled to vote, or shall aid, counsel, advise, procure or
assist any voter, person or judge of election or other officer of
election to do any act by law forbidden or in this act consti-
tuted an offense or to omit to do any act by law directed to be
done, every such person shall upon conviction in the Circuit
Court for Harford County be adjudged guilty of a misde-
meanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not
less than one nor more than five years or by a fine not exceed-
ing One Thousand ($1, 000. 00) Dollars or by both fine and im-
prisonment, in the discretion of the Court.