Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                   1283

224.   Requirements of Election Reports. (a) Contents. The state-
ment or report shall be a full, true and itemized statement in writ-
ing, subscribed and sworn to by the treasurer, political agent or
candidate before an officer authorized to administer oaths, setting
forth in detail all contributions received and expenditures made in-
cluding all moneys or other valuable thing or things contributed to
him and expended or promised by him to aid and promote, or in any
way in connection with his nomination or election, or both, as the
case may be, or for other political purposes in connection with the
election of any other person at said election, and all existing unful-
filled promises or liabilities in that connection remaining uncancelled
and in force at the time such statement is made, whether such ex-
penditures, promises or liabilities were made or incurred before,
during or after such election, and showing the dates when, the per-
son to whom, and the purposes for which each and all of said sums
or valuable things were contributed, paid, expended or promised or
said liabilities incurred. Such statement shall also set forth that the
same is as full and explicit as the affiant is able to make it.

(b)  Boards of Supervisors; Clerks of Court. It is hereby made the
duty of the Supervisors of Elections, within three days after certifica-
tion to them of any nomination for any office to certify to the clerk of
the Circuit Court of their county or the clerk of the Circuit Court of
Baltimore City, as the case may be, the names and addresses of all
candidates nominated for offices within their respective counties, or
the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, together with the names of
the offices for which each is nominated. The said clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court shall, thereupon, furnish to all candidates a blank form
upon which to make the statement required by this section.

(c)  Commission or Certificate of Election. No person shall be
deemed elected to any public office under the laws of this State, or
enter upon the duties thereof, or receive any salary or emoluments
therefrom until he shall have filed the statement provided for in this
section; and no officer authorized by the laws of this State to issue
commissions or certificates of election shall issue a commission or
certificate of election to any person claiming to be elected to any such
office, until a copy of such statement as aforesaid shall have been
made, verified and filed by such person with such officer.

(d)  Failure to File Statement. Ten days after the period pre-
scribed by Section 223 for the filing of a statement or report shall
have expired the officer with whom the same is therein required to be
filed shall notify the proper prosecuting officer of his county or Bal-
timore City, as the case may be, of the failure to file such statement
on the part of any treasurer, political agent or candidate and within
fifteen days thereafter such prosecuting officer shall proceed to prose-
cute for such offense.

(e)  Time to be Mandatory. The provisions of this section, includ-
ing the provisions of Section 223 with respect to the time of filing
said reports, shall be mandatory and not directory.

225.  Perjury. Any wilfully false statement or entry made by any
candidate for office, treasurer, or political agent, or by any member
or officer of any political committee, in any statement or account
under oath required by this Article, shall constitute the crime of
perjury, and be punished as such according to the laws of this State.