J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1133

224.

(a) [The statement or report shall be a full, true and itemized
statement in writing, 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 expendi-
tures made including all moneys or other valuable thing or things
contributed to him and expended or promised by him to aid and pro-
mote, 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
unfulfilled promises or liabilities in that connection remaining un-
cancelled and in force at the time such statement is made, whether
such expenditures, promises or liabilities were made or incurred
before, during or after such election, and showing the dates when,
the person 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)] It is hereby made the duty of the supervisors of elections,
within three days after certification 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 nomi-
nated. The said clerk of the circuit court shall, thereupon, furnish
to all candidates a blank form upon which to make the statements
required by [this section] Section 223A.

[(c)] (b) No person shall be deemed elected to any public office
under the laws of this State, or enter upon the duties thereof, or re-
ceive any salary or emoluments therefrom until he shall have filed the
statements provided for in Section 223A; 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 claim-
ing to be elected to any such office, until [a copy] copies of such
statements as aforesaid shall have been made, verified and filed by
such person with such officer.

[d]  (c) Ten days after the periods prescribed by Section 223 for
the filing of [a] statements or reports shall have expired the officer
with whom the same [is] are therein required to be filed shall notify
the proper prosecuting officer of his county or Baltimore City, as the
case may be, of the failure to file such statements on the part of any
treasurer[, political agent] or candidate and within fifteen days there-
after such prosecuting officer shall proceed to prosecute for such
offense.

[e]  (d) The provisions of this section, including the provisions
of Section 223 with respect to the time of filing said reports, shall be
mandatory and not directory.

(e) It shall be the duty of the officer with whom the reports and
statements required by Sestionc SECTIONS 223 and 223A are filed to
examine such reports and statements for false, fraudulent; incomplete
or misleading statement or entries and reports such apparently false,
fraudulent, incomplete, or misleading statements or entries to the