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any person, or for or against any measure or proposition at any
election or political convention or for or against the election of any
officer by the General Assembly of Maryland.

(2)  Accepting or Soliciting Bribe, etc. Every person who shall,
directly or indirectly, receive, accept, request or solicit from any
person, candidate, committee, association, organization or corpora-
tion, any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument, or
any valuable thing whatsoever, for the purpose of inducing or pro-
curing any person to vote, or refrain from voting, for or against
any person, or for or against any measure or proposition at any
election or political convention.

(3)  Acting on Bribe, etc. Every person who, in consideration of
any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument, or any
valuable thing whatsoever, paid, received, accepted, or promised
to the advantage of himself or any other person, shall vote or
refrain from voting for or against any person, or for or against
any measure at any such election or political convention.

(4)  Making Contribution Other Than to Treasurer or Subtreas-
urer. 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 or expenses of any campaign or elec-
tion, to any person, committee, company, organization or associa-
tion, other than to a treasurer or a subtreasurer, 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 subtreasurer as provided in
this article, or for volunteered time or personal vehicles or personal
advertising or costs and expenses incident to the expression of
personal views in accordance with the provisions of Section 26-9 (a)
herein.

(5)   Political Contributions in False Name. Every person who
shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or through another person,
make a payment, or promise of payment, to a treasurer or sub-
treasurer, or candidate, in any other name than his own, and every
treasurer or 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.

(6)   Coercing Employees. Every person who, being an employer,
pays his employees the salary or wages due in "pay envelopes,"
upon which there is written or printed or in which there is enclosed
any political motto, device or argument containing threats, express
or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions
or actions of such employees, or within ninety days of an election
puts, or otherwise exhibits in the establishment or place where his
employees are engaged in labor, any handbill or placard containing
any threat, notice or information that if any particular ticket or
candidate is elected or defeated, work in his place or establishment,
will cease, m whole or in part, his establishment be closed up or the
wages of his employees reduced, or other threats, express or implied,
intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions
of his employees.