1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 10.

Candidates
punishable.

If any candidate or other person or persons shall
practice force and violence, with intent to influence
unduly, or to overawe, intercept or hinder, any
election, he shall, on conviction thereof, in any
court of criminal jurisdiction in the county where
the offence was committed, suffer such fine not ex-
ceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and such
imprisonment not exceeding fifty days, as the court
shall adjudge; this section not to apply to the city
of Baltimore, where a different penalty is prescribed
by the local law of the said city.

24th section.

That the following be a substitute for the twen-
ty-fourth section of the said article:

Soldiers.

No commissioned or non-commissioned officer,
having the command of any soldier or soldiers quar-
tered or posted in any district of any county in this
State, shall muster or embody any of the said troops,
or march any recruiting party within the view of
any place of election, during the time of holding
said election, under the penalty of one hundred
dollars; this section not to apply to the city of
Baltimore.

28th section.

That the following be a substitute for the twen-
ty-eighth section of said article:

Number to
be expressed.

The said number shall be expressed in words, at
length, and not in figures only, according to the
following form, or to the like effect, to wit: State
of Maryland, county, to wit: We, the un-
dersigned, duly appointed by the county commis-
sioners of said county, or by a justice of the peace,
or the voters, (as the case may be) in due form of
law, judge or judges of election, in this district,
No. —, do hereby certify and return that we did
attend on the day of at
the place appointed by law for holding the election
within said district, and did then and there ap-
point and clerks of the election,
who severally qualified, as directed by law; we
further certify that we did then and there, before a
justice of the peace of said county, (or before each
other) qualify as judge or judges of the election, as
by law directed, and did then and there, at the hour
of nine o'clock, in the morning; open the polls for
an election for that we continued the polls
open until six o'clock in the evening of the same
day, when they were closed, the ballot box opened
and the ballots publicly counted, when it appeared