1572 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

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 im-
prisoned for not more than two years, or both fined and im-
prisoned, 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
notify the proper prosecuting officer of his county or Baltimore
City, as the case may be, of the failure to file such state-
ment on the part of any candidate and within fifteen days
thereafter such prosecuting officer shall proceed to prosecute
for such offense.

The provisions of this section, including the provisions with
respect to the time of filing said reports, shall be mandatory
and not directory and must be strictly performed as above
prescribed.

153. Any wilfully false statement or entry made by any can-
didate for office, treasurer or political agent, or by any mem-
ber or officer of any political committee, in any statement or
account under oath required by this sub-title, shall constitute
the crime of perjury, and be punished as such according to the
laws of this State.

154. Every officer with whom statements or accounts, or du-
plicates thereof are required by any section of this Article to
be filed, shall receive and file and preserve such statements or
accounts, or duplicates thereof, in his office, and shall keep the
same as part of the records thereof for at least three years
after they are filed. And all such statements and accounts
shall, during the hours for which the office in which they may
be filed is open, be subject and open to the inspection of any
citizen of this State, and copies of such statements or accounts,
certified by the officer in whose office they may be so kept, under
the seal of his office, shall be evidence in all the courts to
the same extent as the original thereof would be if produced
and proved.

155. The following persons shall be guilty of corrupt prac-
tices and shall be punished in accordance with the provisions
of this sub-title: Every person who shall, directly or indirectly,
by himself or by another, give or offer or promise to any person
any money, gift, advantage, preferment, entertainment, aid,
emolument or any valuable thing whatever, for the purpose of
inducing or procuring any person to vote, or refrain from vot-
ing, for or against any person, or for or against any measure
or proposition at any election or primary election or political