1134                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 744

proper prosecuting officer of the county or Baltimore City, as the

case may be. TO MAKE AVAILABLE SAID RECORDS TO THE
PUBLIC.

225.

Any wilfully false, fraudulent, or misleading statement or entry
made by any candidate for office, treasurer, or [political agent] sub-
treasurer, 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] punishable as
such according to the laws of this State.

227.

(e)    Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, pay, give, con-
tribute or promise any money or other valuable thing, to defray, or
towards defraying the costs [of] or expenses of any campaign or
election, to any person, committee, company, club, organization or
association, other than to a treasurer or a [political agent] sub-
treasurer; but this subsection shall not apply to dues regularly paid
for membership in any political club if all money expended by such
club or in connection with the costs or expenses of any campaign or
election shall be paid out by it only through a treasurer or [political
agent] subtreasurer as provided in this article, [or to any expenses
for postage, telegrams, telephoning, radio and television programs,
stationery, printing, advertising and publishing, expressage or
traveling and board incurred by any candidate for office or for nomi-
nation thereto, so far as they are permitted by this article] or for
volunteered time or personal vehicles or personal advertising or costs
and expenses incident to the expression of personal views in accord-
ance with the provisions of Section 219 (a) herein.

(f)    Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or
through another person, make a payment, or promise of payment, to
a treasurer or [political agent] subtreasurer, or candidate, in any
other name than his own, and every treasurer or [political agent]
subtreasurer or candidate who shall knowingly receive a payment, or
promise of payment, and enter the same or cause the same to be
entered in his accounts in any other name than that of the person by
whom such payment or promise of payment is made.

228 A.

No person or corporation within the State, publishing a newspaper
or other periodical, or operating a radio or television station or net-
work of stations in this State, shall charge a candidate for State or
county LOCAL public office for political advertising or for political
broadcasts, a rate in excess of the regular local rate regularly charged
by such person or corporation for commercial advertising; nor shall
such a person or corporation charge one political candidate a higher
rate than another political candidate; and no candidate or a political
committee shall pay for political advertising or broadcasts any rate

or charge in excess of such regular local rates regularly charged.

EXCEPT THAT WHEN SUCH POLITICAL ADVERTISING IS
PLACED WITH THE PERSON OR CORPORATION THROUGH
THE MEDIUM OF AN ADVERTISING OR PRESS AGENCY,
THEN THE REGULAR NATIONAL RATE REGULARLY
CHARGED BY SUCH PERSON OR CORPORATION FOR COM-
MERCIAL ADVERTISING MAY BE CHARGED.