HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1581

granted, the employee or employees to be allowed sufficient
time not exceeding four hours. Any employer, whether a body
corporate, firm or individual, and any officer or agent of any
employer who shall refuse to allow its or his employee or
employees sufficient time not exceeding four hours within
which to vote or who shall directly or indirectly prevent or
hinder its or his employee or employees from exercising the
right herein granted by any form of inducement whatever, or by
threats, express or implied, that the exercise by said employee
or employees of the right herein granted will be followed by a
discharge from said employment or by a reduction in salary or
wages, or who shall influence or attempt to influence its or his
employee or employees not to exercise the right herein granted
upon any pretext whatever shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall for each and every offense
pay a fine not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars or be
imprisoned in jail for a period not exceeding six months, or
both, in the discretion of the Court.

164. If any judge or clerk of election, or any officer of
registration, revision, election or canvass or any member of
any committee, or of the governing body, of any political party
participating in primary elections under this Article, or any
delegate to a convention or party executive, of whom any
duty is required in this Article, or by any other election law of
this State, shall be guilty of any wilful neglect of such duty,
or any corrupt or fraudulent conduct or practice in the execu-
tion of the same, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be pun-
ished by imprisonment in jail for not less than thirty days
nor more than three years, or by a fine of not less than fifty
($50) dollars nor more than one thousand ($1, 000) dollars,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.

165. Any person selected by the Board of Supervisors of
Elections, of any county or of Baltimore City as a judge or
clerk of election, as hereinbefore in this Article provided, who
shall fail or refuse to serve as such judge or clerk of election
or who having been notified by said Board of Supervisors to
appear for examination of his qualifications for judge or clerk
of election, shall fail or refuse so to appear for examination,
shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars and not more
than three hundred dollars, unless it shall appear that he was
not qualified for such service by reason of ill health, infirmity
or old age.

166. If any officer of registration in any election precinct
shall without urgent necessity absent himself from the place of
registration during the hours prescribed by law for register-
ing voters, or if any judge or clerk of election shall without