100 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 86

government of the State of Maryland or of any agency
thereof or of any county, municipal corporation or other
political sub-division of said State;

(b) filing or standing for election to any public office in
the State of Maryland; or

(c) voting in any election held in this State.

5. It shall be unlawful for any subversive organization
or foreign subversive organization to exist or function in
the State of Maryland and any organization which by a
court of competent jurisdiction is found to have violated
the provisions of this section shall be dissolved, and if it
be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the State, of Maryland a finding by a court of competent
jurisdiction that it has violated the provisions of this section
shall constitute legal cause for forfeiture of its charter and
its charter shall be forfeited under the provisions of Article
23, Sections 104-108, inclusive, Annotated Code of Maryland,
and all funds, books, records and files of every kind and
all other property of any organization found to have vio-
lated the provisions of this section shall be seized by and
for the State of Maryland, the funds to be deposited in the
State Treasury and the books, records, files and other prop-
erty to be turned over to the Attorney General of Mary-
land.

6. The Attorney General of Maryland is hereby author-
ized and directed to appoint an additional Assistant to per-
form the duties of Special Assistant Attorney General in
charge of subversive activities whose annual salary shall be
provided in the Budget, and whose responsibility it shall be,
under supervision of the Attorney General, to assemble,
arrange and deliver to the State's Attorney of any county
or of Baltimore City, together with a list of necessary wit-
nesses, for presentation to the next Grand Jury to meet
in said county or city, all information and evidence of
matters within said county or Baltimore City which have
come to his attention, relating in any manner to the acts
prohibited by this Article, and relating generally to the
purposes, processes and activities of Communism and any
other or related subversive organizations, associations, groups
or persons.

7. For the collection of any evidence and information
referred to in this Article, the Attorney General is hereby
directed to call upon the Superintendent of State Police,