1568 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

unlawful; provided, however, that a candidate for nomination
or for election may pay personally in addition to said sum or
valuable thing or things amounting thereto, his own expenses
for postage, telegrams, telephoning, stationery, printing, ad-
vertising, publishing, or expressage, traveling and board (pro-
vided further, that any payment, expenditure, contribution,
promise or liability which may be made or incurred, directly
or indirectly, by the wife of any candidate for an office or
nomination shall be charged against the candidate as if made
by the candidate himself); and provided, further, that noth-
ing in this sub-title shall be taken or construed to prohibit the
chairman of the State Central Committee of the State or of
any county or of the City of Baltimore of any political party
from soliciting contributions for campaign purposes, which
contributions, however, shall be expended in accordance with
and subject to the provisions and restrictions of this sub-title

150. It shall be lawful for any treasurer or political agent
in connection with any election, or primary election, and in
making provisions therefor, to pay the following expenses r

(a) of hiring of halls and music for the conventions, public
meetings 'and public primaries and for advertising the same;

(b) of printing and circulating political articles, circulars,
pamphlets and books; (c) of printing and distributing sample
or specimen ballots and instructions to voters, subject, how-
ever, to such prohibitions or restrictions as may be imposed
by this Article upon the publication and distribution of such
sample or specimen ballots or instructions; (d) of renting
rooms and headquarters to be used by political commit-
tees; (e) of compensating clerks, stenographers and type-
writers employed in the committee-rooms, and also of chal-
lengers and watchers employed in the registration rooms, in
the voting-rooms and at the polls; (f) the traveling and other
legitimate expenses of political agents, committees and public
speakers; (g) of necessary postage, telegrams, telephoning,
printing expenses and conveyance charges for carrying per-
sons to and from the polls, or to and from the office of regis-
tration; (h) the cost and expenses of messengers sent by direc-
tion of the chairman of the State Central Committee of any
political party in connection with "party matters or interests,
and also the cost and expenses of any person or persons sum-
moned by or at the instance of the chairman of the State Cen-
tral Committee of any political party to the committee's head-
quarters or offices in connection with party matters or interests
and also for the accommodation and entertainment of such
persons; (i) all expenses incurred by or under the authority
of the chairman of the State Central Committee of any politi-
cal party in providing accommodation and entertainment for