"Art. 1. No person who is a candidate, or has been nominated,
and is to be voted for to fill any office or appointment under the
constitution or laws of this State, or the ordinances or authority of
the mayor and city council of Baltimore, shall give, contribute or
subscribe, or promise so to do, any money or other thing of value,
to he used or employed in any way in aiding or promoting the
success of his election, except some reasonable sum to be applied
to the payment of the expense of printing ballots to be cast at the
election. And any person herein offending, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in a court of
law, shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, as the Legisla-
ture may hereafter from time to time direct, and the person thus
convicted shall be incompetent to hold the office to which he may
have been elected.
Art. 2. No person in this State, not a candidate, or nominated as
aforesaid, shalt give, contribute or subscribe any sum or sums of
rnoney,or other thing of value, to be tised in any electioneering
canvass, or to be expended in any way in relation to any election
to be held under the constitution or laws of this State, or under
any ordinance or authority derived from the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, unless such gift, contribution or subscrip-
tion be directed by its author, to be exclusively applied to the
giving of barbeques or treats, at which candidates or others may
have an opportunity of addressing their fellow-citizens; or to the
circulation of newspapers, or printing of public documents or
political essays, addresses or handbills, designed for circulation
among the people, or providing vehicles for the transportation of
voters to the polls, or to the printing of tickets designed for the
ballot-box; and any person herein offending, and any person, him-
self or through the agency of another, applying such gift, contri-
bution or subscription to any electioneering purpose, contrary to
such direction, upon conviction th ereof in a court of law, shall be
fined and imprisoned as shall hereafter by the Legislature be,
from time to time, directed.

Art. 3. No per-son in this State holding any office or appointment
under the constitution or laws of the United States, or any of the
officers thereof, shall give, contribute or subscribe any sum or sums
of money or articles of value to be used in any electioneering
canvass; or to be expended in any way in relation to any election
to be held under the constitution or laws of this State, or ordi-
nances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; and any
person herein offending, upon conviction in a court of law, shall
be fined and imprisoned as may hereafter, from time to time, be
directed by the Legislature.

Art. 4. No person in this State shall, himself or through the
agency of others, receive, use or expend any sum or sums of
money, or other thing of value given, contributed or subscribed
by any pet-son or persons whatsoever, living out of the State of
Maryland, to be made operative in any electioneering canvass, as