HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1573

convention or session of the General Assembly of Maryland, or
either house thereof. Every person who shall, directly or in-
directly, receive, accept, request or solicit from any person,
candidate, committee, association, organization or corporation,
any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument, or
any valuable thing, whatsoever, for the purpose of inducing or
procuring any person to vote, or refrain from voting, for or
against any person, or for or against any measure or proposi-
tion at any election or primary election or political convention.
Every person who, in consideration of any money, gift, advan-
tage, preferment, aid, emolument, or any valuable thing what-
soever, paid, received, accepted, or promised to the advantage
of himself or any other person, shall vote, or refrain from
voting for or against any person, or for or against any measure
at any such election, caucus or primary election or political
convention. Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, pay,
give, contribute or promise any money or other valuable thing,
to defray, or towards defraying the costs or expenses of any
campaign or election, to any person, committee, company, club,
organization or association, other than to a treasurer or a
political agent; but this sub-section or paragraph shall not
apply to dues regularly paid for membership in any incorpo-
rated political club if all money expended by such club for or
in connection with the costs or expenses of any campaign or
election shall be paid out by it only through a treasurer or po-
litical agent as provided in this sub-title, or to any expenses for
postage, telegrams, telephoning, stationery, printing, express-
age or traveling and board incurred by any candidate for office
or for nomination thereto, so far as they are permitted by this
sub-title. Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by
himself or through another person, make a payment, or promise
of payment, to a treasurer or political agent in any other name
than his own, and every treasurer or political agent who shall
knowingly receive a payment, or promise of payment, and enter
the same or cause the same to be entered in his accounts in
any other name than that of the person by whom such payment
or promise of payment is made. Every person who being an
employer, pays his employes the salary or wages due in "pay
envelopes, " upon which there is written or printed or in which
there is enclosed any political motto, device or argument con-
taining threats, express or implied, intended or calculated to
influence the political opinions or actions of such employes, or
within ninety days of an election or primary election puts, or
otherwise exhibits in the establishment or place where his
employes are engaged in labor, any hand-bill or placard con-
taining any threat, notice or information that if any particular
ticket or candidate is elected or defeated, work in his place or
establishment, will cease, in whole or in part, his establishment