CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 82. In the canvass of votes by the canvassing board for the city or county herein provided, said board shall, unless otherwise provided in the Constitution of this State, declare who is elected to any city or county office, or to any office voted for only within the territory of such city or county. CHAPTER 544, ACTS OF 1906. 83. If, upon proceeding to canvass the votes, it shall clearly appear to the canvassing board for the city or county that in any statement or talley sheet produced to them certain matters are omitted which should have been inserted, or that any mistakes exist, they shall immediately issue a subpoena to the judges and clerks who made said return and said judges and clerks shall forthwith attend and shall make such corrections as the facts of the case require, but such changes shall not alter any decision before duly made by them, but shall cause the canvass to be correctly stated, and the said board of canvassers are authorized to adjourn from day to day for the purpose of obtaining and receiving such corrected statements; such adjournment not to extend beyond three days. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 84. Whenever it shall be made to appear by affidavit that errors have occurred in the determination of the Board of Canvassers of any county or city in the State, the Circuit Court of the county or the Superior Court of Baltimore city may by order require said board to correct such errors or show cause why such corrections should not be made; and in the event of the failure of said board to make such corrections, or show cause aforesaid, said court may compel said board by writ of mandamus to correct such errors, and if said Board of Canvassers shall have made its determination and dissolved, said court may compel it to convene for the purpose of making such corrections. For the purpose of making such corrections as the court shall order, the meeting of the Board of Canvassers shall be deemed a continuation of its regular session, and the statements and certificates shall be made and filed as the court shall direct, and so far as the same shall vary from the original statements and certificates, the statements and certificates made under the order of court shall stand in lieu thereof, and shall in all cases have the same effect as if such corrected statements had been a part of the original statement required by law. The practice in said cases shall be as in mandamus proceedings, and the court shall determine the time for the speedy hearing thereof, in its discretion; and for the purpose of service of papers and other proceedings the board of canvassers, as organized and existing at the time of making the origin canvass, shall be deemed a continuing board. There shall be the same right of appeal as in other mandamus cases, but such appeal shall be taken within five days from the date of the decision complained of, and shall be heard and decided by the Court of Appeals as soon after the transmission of the record as possible, and the testimony taken in such cases shall be sent up to the Court of Appeals as part of the record. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 85. The Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Clerk of the Court of Appeals and Attorney General shall constitute the Board of State Canvassers, three of whom shall be a quorum. The Secretary of State shall appoint the meeting of the said board, to be held at his office within thiry days after any State election; if a majority do not attend, those present shall adjourn until the next day, at which time they shall proceed, without further delay, to canvass the votes. The board, when thus formed, shall from the certified copies of the statements made by the boards of city and county canvassers, proceed to make a statement of the whole number of votes given at such election for the several candidates for the offices named in said statements, and thereupon proceed to determine and declare what persons have been, by the greatest number of votes, elected to such offices, and each of them; they shall make and subscribe on a proper statement a certificate of such determination, and shall deliver the same to the Secretary of State. If any one of the canvassers shall dissent from the decision of the board, he shall state at large in writing, the reasons for such dissent. If any of the acts or proceedings of the board shall appear to any one of the canvassers to be illegal or irregular, such canvasser shall protest against the same, in writing, setting forth distinctly the grounds of his protest; the canvassers so dissenting or protesting shall deliver his dissent or protest, signed with his proper name, to the Secretary of State, who shall file the same in his office, and he shall also keep on file in his office the copies of the statements made by the board of city and county canvassers. The board shall have power to adjourn, from day to day, during a period not exceeding five days. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 86. The Secretary of State shall record in his office, in a book, kept by him for that purpose, each certified statement and determination which shall be delivered to him by the Board of State Canvassers, and every dissent or protest which shall have been delivered to him by a canvasser. He shall, without delay, transmit a copy, under seal of his office, of such certified determination to each person thereby declared to be elected, and a like copy to the Governor, and he shall cause a copy of such certified statements and determinations to be published in one newspaper in the city of Annapolis and one in the city of Baltimore. In conformity with the statements and determinations made as aforesaid by the Board of State Canvassers, the Governor shall issue commissions to the different persons elected, as now provided by the Constitution and laws of this State. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 87. If at any general registration of voters or at any meeting of a Board of Registry held for such purpose or for revision thereof, as provided in this Article, any person shall falsely personate a voter or other person, and register or attempt or offer to register in the name of such voter or other person; or if any person shall register or attempt to make application to register in or under the name of any other person, or in or under any false, assumed or fictitious name, or in or under any name not his own; or shall register in two election precincts; or, having registered in one precinct, shall attempt or offer to register in another; or shall fraudulently register or attempt, or offer to register in any election precinct, not having a legal right to register therein; or shall knowingly or willfully do any unlawful act to secure registration for himself or any other person, or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently, by false personation or otherwise, or by any unlawful means cause or procure, or attempt to cause or procure the name of any qualified voter in any election precinct to be erased or stricken, as in this Article provided, from any registry of the voters of such precinct made in pursuance of this Article or otherwise; or by force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery, reward or offer or promise thereof, or other unlawful means prevent, hinder or delay any person having a lawful right to register or be registered from duly exercising such right; or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently compel or induce, or attempt or offer to compel or induce, by such means, or by any unlawful means, any officer of registration in any election precinct to register, or attempt to register any person not lawfully entitled to registration in such precinct; or to register any false, assumed or fictitious name, or any name of any person, except as provided in this Article; or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently interfere with, hinder or delay any officer of registration in the discharge of his duties; or counsel, advise or induce, or attempt to induce any such officer to refuse or neglect to comply with or perform his duties, or to violate any law prescribed for regulating the same; or shall aid, counsel, procure or advise any voter, person or officer of regis tration to do any act by law forbidden, or in this Article constituting an offense, or to omit to do any act by law directed to be done, every such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less than six months, nor more than five years. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 88. If at any election hereafter held in any city or county, any person shall falsely personate any voter or other person and vote or attempt to offer to vote in or upon the name of such voter or other person, or shall vote or attempt to vote in or upon the name of any other person, whether living or dead, or in or upon any false, assumed or fictitious name, or in or upon any name not his own, or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently vote more than once for any candidate for the same office, except as authorized by law; or shall vote or attempt or offer to vote in any election precinct without having a legal right to vote therein; or shall vote more than onee, or vote in more than one election precinet; or having once voted. shall vote or attempt to offer to vote again; or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently do any unlawful act to secure for himself or for any other person right or opportunity to vote; or shall by force, threat, menace, intimidation, bribery or reward, or offer or promise thereof, or otherwise unlawfully, either directly or indirectly, influence or attempt to influence any voter in giving his vote; or prevent or hinder, or attempt to prevent or hinder, any qualified voter from freely exercising the right of suffrage; or by any such means induce, or attempt to induce, any such voter to exercise any such right; or shall by any such means, or otherwise, compel or induce or attempt to compel or induce, any judge or clerk of election in any election precinct to receive the vote of any such person not legally qualified or entitled to vote at the said election in such precinct; or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently interfere with, delay or hinder in any manner any judge or clerk of election in the discharge of his duties; or by any such means, or other unlawful means, knowingly, willfully or fraudulently counsel, advise, induce or attempt to induce any judge or clerk of election whose duty it is to ascertain, proclaim, announce or declare the result of any such election to give or make any false certificate, document, report, return or other false evidence in relation thereto; or to refuse or neglect to comply with his duty, or to violate any law regulating the same; or to receive the vote of any person in any election district not entitled to vote therein; or to refuse to receive the vote of any person entitled to vote therein; or shall aid, counsel, advise, procure or assist any voter, person or judge of election or other officer of election to do any act by law forbidden, or in this Article constituted an offense; or to omit to do any act by law directed to be done; every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less than six months, nor more than five years. CHAPTER 71, ACTS OF 1900. 89. At every election, whether national, state or municipal, hereafter held in this State, every employer, whether a body corporate, firm or individual, shall allow its or his employee or employees sufficient time, not exceeding four hours, within which to vote; provided, that the said employer shall have the right to designate the time when his employee or employees shall exercise the right herein granted, the employee or employees to be allowed sufficient time not exceeding four hours. Any employer, whether a body corporate, firm or individual, and any officer or agent of any employer, who shall refuse to allow its or his employee or employees sufficient time, not exceeding four hours within which to vote or who shall directly or indirectly prevent or hinder its or his employee or employees from exercising the right herein granted by any form of inducement whatever, or by threats, express or implied that the exercise by said employee or employees of the right herein granted will be followed by a discharge from said employment or by a reduction in salary or wages, or who shall influence or attempt to influence its or his employee or employees not to exercise the right herein granted upon any pretext whatever shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall for each and every offense pay a fine no exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars or be imprisoned in jail for a period not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of the Court. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 90. If any clerk of election or any person performing the duties of such clerk, shall willfully keep a false poll-list, or shall knowingly insert in his poll-list any false statement, or any name or statement, or any check, alteration or mark, except as in this Article provided, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 91. Every judge of election who shall willfully exclude any vote duly tendered, knowing that the person offering the same is lawfully entitled to vote at such election, or shall willfully receive a vote from any person who has been duly challenged in relation to his right to vote at such election, without exacting from such person such oath or other proof of qualification as may be required by law; or shall willfully omit to challenge any person offering to vote whom he knows or suspects to be not entitled to vote, and who has not been challenged; or shall willfully refuse to open and show the ballot box to be empty prior to the opening of the polls; or shall permit any barricade or obstruction of any kind to be interposed, so that all who desire cannot constantly see such ballot box, shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in jail or in the penitentiary for not less than three months, nor more than two years. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 92. Every judge or clerk of election or other officer or person who shall make, sign, publish or deliver any false tally or return of an election, or any false certificate or statement of the result of an election, knowing the same to be false, or who shall willfully deface, destroy or conceal any statement, tally or certificate entrusted to his care and custody, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one, nor more than ten years. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 93. If any person other than a judge of election shall, at any election, knowingly and willfully put, or cause to be put any ballot or ballots, or other paper having the semblance thereof, into any box used at such election for the reception of votes; or if any judge of election knowingly or willfully cause or permit any ballot or ballots to be in said box at the opening of the polls, and before the voting shall have begun; or shall knowingly, willfully or fraudulently put, any ballot or other paper having the semblance thereof, into any such box at any election, unless the same shall be offered by a voter whose name shall have been found and kept upon the registry as hereinbefore provided, or who shall be entitled to vote under this Article; or if any judge of election or other |