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Chapter 159, Acts of 1922.

158. The Fourth Congressional District shall be composed of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Seventeenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Wards of Baltimore City, and the First, Second and Third election precincts of the Eighteenth Ward of Baltimore City, as said wards are numbered by Act of 1901, Chapter 8, and as said precincts are presently laid out, and shall be entitled to choose one Representative in the House of Representatives.

Chapter 159, Acts of 1922.

159. Fifth Congressional District shall be composed of the Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth Wards of Baltimore City, and the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth election precincts of the Eighteenth Ward, and of the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh election precincts of the Twenty-fifth Ward of Baltimore City, as presently laid out, and of St. Mary's County, Charles County, Calvert County, Prince George's County, Anne Arundel County and Howard County, and shall be entitled to choose one Representative in the House of Representatives.

Chapter 136, Acts of 1902.

160. The Sixth Congressional District shall be composed of Allegany county, Garrett county, Washington county, Frederick county and Montgomery county, and shall be entitled to choose one Representative in the House of Representatives.

Chapter 202, Acts of 1896.

161. The judges of the election districts of Baltimore county forming part of the Second Congressional District shall make a return separate from that to be made by the judges of the remaining districts of said county, and the judges of the election precincts of Baltimore city composing the Third Congressional District, and the judges of the election precincts of Baltimore city composing the Fourth Congressional District shall, respectively, make separate returns, and separate returns shall in like manner be made by the judges of the election precincts in said city constituting a part of the Second Congressional District, and also by the judges of the election precincts in said city constituting a part of the Fifth Congressional District.

Chapter 202, Acts of 1896.

162. All Public General Laws or Public Local Laws or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Article are hereby repealed; provided, that every offense which has been or shall have been wholly or partly committed against any of said Public General or Public Local Laws or parts thereof before April 2, 1896, shall be dealt with, inquired into, tried, determined and punished; and any penalty in respect to any such offense shall be imposed or inflicted, and any fine shall be imposed, enforced or recovered in the same manner as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and no case pending shall abate, by reason of such repeal, and every act duly done and every warrant or other instrument duly issued, made or granted before April 2, 1896, shall continue and be of the same force and effect as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and provided, also, that any right, liability, privileges and protection in respect to any matter or thing committed or done before April 2, 1896, shall continue and be of the same force and effect as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and every action, prosecution or other proceeding which shall have commenced before April 2, 1896, or shall thereafter be commenced in respect to any such matter or thing done before April 2, 1896, may be prosecuted, continued and defended in the same manner as if said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and provided, also, that nothing in this Article shall be construed to repeal any provisions of the existing laws applicable to the city of Baltimore for the prevention of the sale or dispensing of any liquor or for the preservation of peace and order therein on any election day.

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Chapter 122, Acts of 1908.

163. The provisions of this sub-title shall apply to all elections of all officers for whom ballots shall be cast pursuant to the provisions of this Article of the Code of Public Civil Laws, and to the election of all officers by the General Assembly of Maryland and to all primary elections preliminary to any such other elections, and to all candidates to be voted for at any such elections or primary elections, and the term "Primary Elections" shall include, (a) all elections held to nominate a candidate for any public office, or to elect delegates to a nominating convention; (b) nominating conventions of such delegates; (c) caucuses of members of the General Assembly.

Chapter 228, Acts of 1912.

164. The term "Political Committee," within the meaning of this sub-title, shall include every committee or combination of two or more persons to aid or promote the success or defeat of any political party or principle in any election, or of any proposition submitted to vote at a public election, or to aid or take part in the nomination or election of any candidate for public office. The term "Treasurer" shall include all persons appointed by any political committee or candidate for nomination or election to any public office, to receive or disburse moneys to aid or promote the success or defeat of any such party, principle or candidate. The term "Political Agent" shall include all persons appointed by any candidate before any election, or primary election, to assist him in his candidacy. No person shall act as any such treasurer or political agent unless, after his appointment, and before the primary or election for which he is appointed, a writing signed by the political committee or candidate appointing him and designating him as such treasurer or political agent, shall be filed with the Secretary of State, except that in case the duties of such treasurer or political agent shall relate to any county, city, ward or district election exclusively, or to any primary election preliminary thereto, such writing shall be filed with the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county within which such treasurer or political agent resides, or with the clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore

city, if such treasurer or political agent resides in Baltimore city, instead of with the Secretary of State. Every such writing shall designate the particular period, election or primary election within which such treasurership or political agency shall continue. Nothing in this sub-title shall prevent the treasurer or political agent of any candidate from being the treasurer or political agent of any candidate, but no candidate for public office or nomination therefor may desig nate himself as his own political agent or act as the political agent or treasurer of any other candidate. No person shall be appointed or act as treasurer or political agent in any election or primary election who is not a citizen and resident of the State of Maryland

Chapter 122, Acts of 1908.

165. Every political committee shall appoint and constantly maintain a treasurer to receive, keep and disburse all sums of money, or other valuable things, which may be collected, received or disbursed by such committee or by any of its members for any purposes mentioned in Section 161 of this Article, or for which such committee exists or acts, and unless such treasurer is first so appointed and maintained, it shall be unlawful and a violation of this Article for a political committee, or any of its members, to collect or receive or disburse money, or other valuable things, for any such purposes. The treasurer appointed under this sub-title by the State Central Committee of any party, and the treasurer appointed in any county or in the city of Baltimore, by the members of the State Central Committee for such county or city of any party, and the treasurer appointed by the city committee of any party in the city of Baltimore, before proceeding to act shall give bond to the State of Maryland in such penalty as the committee by whom he shall be appointed shall prescribe conditioned for the faithful performance by him of the duties of his office, without loss or detriment to any person interested in the performance of such duties; upon which bond an action may be maintained in the name of the State of Maryland for the use of any person interested in the faithful performance of his said duties, and injured by a breach of the condition of said bond. The premium required to be paid for such bond may be paid by him out of the funds that shall come into his hands as such treasurer and shall be allowed to him as a credit in the settlement of his accounts. All money or other valuable things collected, received or disbursed by any political committee, or by any member or members thereof, for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be paid over to and made to pass through the hands of the treasurer of such committee and shall

be disbursed by him, and not otherwise; and it shall be unlawful and a violation of this Article for any political committee or for any member or members of a political committtee, to disburse or expend money or any other valuable things, for any of said purposes until the money or other valuable things so disbursed or expended shall have passed through the hands of the treasurer of such committee; and any person other than a member of such political committee or other than the political agent, as herein before defined, who shall engage in receiving or disbursing money for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be deemed a treasurer of a political committee within the meaning of this Article, and shall be subject to all the requirements, obligations and penalties hereby provided for and in the case of such treasurer; provided, however, that the treasurer appointed under this sub-title by the State Central Committee of any party, or the treasurer appointed in any county or the city of Baltimore by the members of the State Central Committee for such county or city of any party, or the treasurer appointed by the city committee of Baltimore city of any *party, may appoint one sub-treasurer for each voting precinct in the said county or city, as the case may be, which subtreasurer is authorized to expend such money as may be placed in his hands by the treasurer appointing him for such purposes as are lawful under the provisions of this sub-title and for no other purpose, and it shall be the duty of every such subtreasurer, within ten days after every election or primary election, to make a report in writing under oath to the treasurer appointing him, stating in detail the amount of money placed in his hands by the said treasurer and for what purposes the said money was expended by him and to whom paid; and it shall be the duty of every such treasurer to file the report of every sub-treasurer appointed by him along with and as a part of the account and statement required to be filed by such treasurer under the provisions of Section 169. Any person or persons violating or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this section or of the preceding section of this Article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both fined and imprisoned in the discretion of the court.

Chapter 122, Acts of 1908.

166. Any person nominated as a candidate for public office, or a candidate for any nomination for public office, may make a voluntary payment of money to any treasurer or political agent, subject to the provisions and restrictions of this sub

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