Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                   1267

or any county therein, or the City of Baltimore, or by any incorpor-
ated city or town of the State or ON any proposed incorporation of a
town, upon any law passed at any session of the General Assembly
of the State, whether regular or extraordinary, and whether the
referendum vote is taken as a result of a petition under Article XVI
of the Constitution or as required by the Act itself. (C) In addition
thereto, the Secretary of State, within ten days from the receipt of
the official returns from any such referendum vote CONCERNING
A LAW ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, shall pre-
pare under his hand and seal, two certificates setting forth the par-
ticular law upon which such referendum vote was taken, and the re-
sult of said vote; one of said certificates he shall forthwith deliver to
the Clerk of the Court of Appeals who shall, upon receipt of the same,
attach it to the original copy of said law and file in his office; the re-
maining certificate shall be retained by the Secretary of State until
the adjournment of the next succeeding session of the General As-
sembly, whether regular or extraordinary, and shall thereupon be de-
livered by him to the person selected by the Governor to compile and
index the laws passed at such session of the General Assembly.

OFFENSES AND PENALTIES

173. False Registration. (a) Every person convicted of any offense
under the provisions of this section shall be punished by imprison-
ment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less than six months nor
more than five years. Said offenses shall be such if committed at any
registration of voters or at any meeting of a board of registry held
for such purpose or for revision thereof, or at any time after the
establishment of a system of permanent general registration, as pro-
vided in this Article. They shall include the following:

(b)   Falsely to personate a voter or other person, and register or
attempt or offer to register in the name of such voter or other person;

(c)  To register or attempt to make application to register in or
under the name of any other person, or in or under any false, as-
sumed or fictitious name, or in or under any name not his own;

(d)  To register in two election precincts;

(e)   Having registered in one precinct, to attempt or offer to reg-
ister in any election precinct, not having a legal right to register
therein;

(f)   Knowingly or wilfully to do any unlawful act to secure regis-
tration for himself or any other person;

(g)   Knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently, by false personation or
otherwise, or by any unlawful means to cause or procure or attempt
to cause or procure, the name of any qualified voter in any election
precinct to be erased or stricken, as in this Article provided, from
any registry of the voters of such precinct made in pursuance of this
Article or otherwise;

(h) By force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery, reward or
offer or promise thereof, or other unlawful means to prevent, hinder
or delay any person having a lawful right to register or be registered
from duly exercising such right;

(i) Knowingly, wilfully or fraudulently to compel or induce or
attempt or offer to compel or induce, by such means or by any unlaw-