The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-10
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS.
in said city, the statement hereinafter
provided


provided.
Every candidate for public office. in.
GLIDING candidates for the office @,
Senator of the United States, shall
within thirty days after the holding
OF the election to fill such office, make
out and file in the Office Of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court of the county in
which such candidate resides, or with
the Clerk of Circuit Court for Balti.
more City, if such candidate resides
in said city, the statement hereinafter
provided.
1t is hereby made the duty of the
Supervisors of Elections, within three
days after certifcation to them of any
nomination for any office or place,
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 ana
addresses of all candidates, including
delegates to conventions, nominated
for Offices or places within their re-
spective counties, or the City of Balti-
more, as the case may be, together
with the name of the office or place
for which each is nominated. The
said Clerk of the Circuit Court shall,
thereupon, furnish to each person
nominated a blank form upon which to
make the statement required by this
Section.
The said above required statement
shall be full, true and itemized
statement in writing, which statement
and duplicate shall be subscribed and
sworn to by such candidate before an
officer authorized to administer oaths,
setting forth in detail all moneys or
other valuable thing or things con-
tributed, expended or promised by
him to aid and promote, 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 liza
bilities in that connection remaining
uncancelled and in force at the time
such statement is made, whether such
expenditures, promises or Liabilities
were made or incurred before, dur
ing or after such election, and show
ing the dates when the person to
whom, and the purposes for which
each and all of said sums or valuable
things were paid, expended or prom
ised, 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.
No person shall be deemed elected
to any elective office under the laws
of this State, or enter upon the duties
thereof, or receive any salary or
therefrom, until he shall
have filed the statement provided Tor
in this Section of this Article; and no
officer authorized by the laws Of this
State to issue commissions or certlh-
Gates of election shall issue a COM
or certificate of election to
any person claiming to be elected to
any office, until such statement as
aforesaid shall have been made, veri-
fed and filed by such person with
such officer.
ANY person violating or failing to
comply with any of the provisions OF
this Section shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and, upon conviction there
Of. shall be fined not less than three
dollars nor more than two
thousand dollars, or imprisoned for
not more than two years, or both fined
and imprisoned, in the discretion of
the Court.
Ten days after the period above
ascertained for the filing of said orig
inal statement shall have expired the
officer with whom the same is by this
Section required to be filed shall notify
the proper prosecuting officer of his
or Baltimore City, as the case
may be, of any failure to file such
statement on the part of any cand1-
date. and within fifteen days thereafter
such prosecuting officer shall proceed
to prosecute for such offense.
The provisions of this Section, in
Guiding the provision with respect to
the time of filing said reports, shall
be mandatory and not directory and
must be strictly performed as above
prescribed.
173. At any time within thirty days
after any election or primary election
held under the laws of the State, any
defeated candidate at such election,
or any ten duly qualified voters at
such election, may present to the Cir
cult Court of any county, or to the
Superior Court of Baltimore City, a
petition setting forth under oath that
corrupt practices, contrary to the pro-
visions of any Section of this Article,
we're committed at or preliminary to
such election, within the county or
CITY aforesaid, naming the successful
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and praying that the facts alleged
may be inquired into. The Court, upon
said petition and the affidavit or aft
davits filed Herewith, shall promptly
order such reasonable notice of such
petition to be given to the defendant
or defendants, and require him or
them, within as short time as may
be reasonable, to answer, show cause
or otherwise defend as the Court may
deem just and reasonable, upon the
petitioners giving security for costs
in such sum of money as the Court
shall deem reasonable. Such petition
shall be tried without a jury, unless
any of the parties thereto shall elect
to have the same tried by jury. The
case shall be tried not later than
fifteen days after such petition has
been filed and within such period If
possible, and shall be given priority
over other Court business, and when a
Jury trial is demanded by any of the
parties to such petition, the jury for
said term shall try it; and if the
Jury for said term shall have been
dismissed, the Court shall recall said
Jury for the purpose of trying said
case. If such arises during any non
Jury term of any of said Courts, the
Court shall recall and reassemble the