son knowingly receive such money, or thing of value, and enter it upon his accounts in any other name than the name of the nerson who really supplies the same; provided, that the money received from the treasurer of any political organization may be so entered.

Who Shall Not Contribute.

2860. [Sec. 22.] No holder of any public office or position not filled by election by the voters shall contribute to the nomination or the election of any person to public office or party position; provided, that this prohibition shall not apply to any person holding an appointive office or position the terms of which is fixed by law. No person shall invite, demand or accept payment or contribution from such persons for campaign purposes. No Contribution for Charitable, etc., Organization to Be Sought from Candidate.

2861. [Sec. 23.] No person shall demand, solicit, ask or invite any payment or contribution for any religious, charitable or other cause or organization supposed to be primarily for the public good, from any candidate for nomination or election.

Advertising Restrictions.

2862. [Sec. 24.] No person shall demand, solicit, ask or invite any candidate for nomination or for public office or party position to subscribe for the support of any club organization, or to buy tickets to any entertainment or ball, or to pay for space in any book, program, periodical paper or publication. This shall not apply to the solicitation of any business advertising in periodicals in which the candidate was a regular advertiser prior to his candidacy, nor to ordinary business advertising, nor to the regular payments to any organization, religious, charitable, or otherwise, of which he was a member, or to which he was a contributor, for more thas six months before his candidacy, nor to any ordinary contributions at church services.

What Corporations May Not Contribute.

2863. [Sec. 25.] No corporation or person, trustee, or trustees, owning or holding the majority of stock of a corporation, carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank, cooperative bank, trust, trustee, savings indemnity, safe deposit, insurance, rail, street railway, telephone, telegraph, gas, electric light, heat, power, canal, drainage or aqueduct company, or

any company having the right to condemn land, or to exercise franchises in public ways granted by the State, parish, city or town, shall pay or contribute any money or value in order to aid or promote the nomination or election of any person, or in order to aid or promote the interests, success or defeat of any political party.

No Pay to Be Made for Loss of Time Caused by Attendance at Polls.

2864. [Sec. 26.] No person or organization shall pay any person for loss or damage due to attendance at the polls at any primary or general election, or any registry therefor, or for the purpose of such registration.

Influencing to Vote or to Refrain from Voting.

2865. [Sec. 27.] It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person—

(1) To pay, lend, or contribute, or offer or promise to pay, lend, or contribute, any money or other valuable consideration to or for any voter, or to or for any other person, to induce such voter to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting at such election for any particular person or persons, or to induce such voter to come to the polls or remain away from the polls at such election, or on account of such voter having voted or refrained from voting or having refrained from voting for any particular person, or having come to the polls or remained away from the polls at such election.

(2) To give, offer, or promise any office, place of employment, or to promise to procure, or endeavor to procure any office, place or employment to or for any voter, or to or for any from voting at any election, or to use any force to vote or refrain from voting at such election for any particular person or persons. (3) To make any gift, loan, promise, offer, procurement or agreement, as aforesaid, to, for or with any person, in order to induce such person to procure, or endeavor to procure, the election of any person, or the vote of any voter at any election.

(4) To procure, or engage, promise or endeavor to procure, in consequence of any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement or agreement, the election of any person or the vote of any voter at such election.

(5)

To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money or other valuable thing, to or for the use of any other person, with the intent that the same, or any part thereof, shall be used in bribery at an election; or to knowingly pay, or cause to be paid, any money or other valuable thing to any person in discharge or repayment of any money, wholly or in part, expended in bribery at any election.

(6) To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money or other valuable thing to or for the use of any other person, vith the intent that the same, or any part thereof, shall be used for boarding, lodging or maintaining a person at any place or domicile in any election precinct, or ward, or district, with intent to secure the vote of such person, or to induce such person to vote for any particular person or persons at any election.

(7) To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money or cther valuable thing to or for the use of any other person, with the intent that the same, or any part thereof, shall be used to aid or assist any person to evade arrest, who is charged with the commission of a crime against the elective franchise, for which, if the person were convicted, the punishment would be imprisonment in the State Prison.

(8) To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money or other valuable thing to or for the use of any other person, in consideration of being selected or endorsed as the candidate of any convention, organized assemblage of delegates, or other body, representing, or claiming to represent, a political party or principle, or any club, society or association, for a public office, or in consideration of the selection or endorsement of any other person as a candidate for a public office, or in consideration of any member of a convention, club, society or asso ciation, having voted to select or endorse any person as a candidate for a public office.

(9) To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money or other valuable thing to or for the use of any other person, in consideration of a person withdrawing as a candidate for a public office.

(10) To give away or distribute intoxicating liquors in unbroken packages to persons with the intent of influencing their votes in an election.

2866. [Sec. 28.] It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person:

person so testifying shall not thereafter be liable to indictment cr presentment by information, nor to prosecution or punishment for the offense with reference to which his testimony was given, and may plead or prove the giving of testimony accordingly in bar of such indictment, information or proceeding.

Wager Prohibited.

2869. [Sec. 31.] It shall be unlawful for any candidate for public office, before or during an election to make any bet or wager with a voter, or take a share or interest in, or in any manner become a party to such bet or wager, or provide or agree to provide any money to be used by another in making such bet or wager upon any event or contingency whatever. Nor shall it be lawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to make a bet or wager with a voter, depending upon the result of any election, with the intent thereby to procure the challenge of such voter, or to prevent him from voting at such election.

Failure or Neglect Misdemeanor.

2870. [Sec. 32.] Every candidate who refuses or neglects to file a statement, as prescribed in section three of this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

2871. [Sec. 33.] Every treasurer of a committee selected under the provisions of section one of this act, who refuses or neglects to file a statement, as prescribed by section two of this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Force, Violence, and Threats.

2872. [Sec. 34.] It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by himself or any other person in his behalf, to make use of, or threaten to make use of, any force, violence or restraint, or to inflict or threaten the infliction, by himself, or through any other person of any injury, damage, harm or loss, or in any manner to practice intimidation upon or against any person, in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or to vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or persons at any election, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at any election. And it shall be unlawful for any person, by abduction, duress, or any forcible or fraudulent device or contrivance whatever, to impede, prevent or otherwise interfere with the free exercise of the elective franchise by any voter; or to

(1) To receive, agree or contract for, before or during un election, any money, gift, loan or other valuable consideration, office, place or employment for himself or any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for coming or agreeing to come to the polls, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting or for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining, er agreeing to refrain from voting for any particular person or persons at any election.

(2) To receive any money or other valuable thing during or after an election, on account of himself, or any other person having voted or refrained from voting for any particular person or persons at such election, or on account of himself, or any other person, having come to the polls or remained away from the polls to vote or refrain from voting, or to vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or persons, or to come to or remain away from the polls at such election.

(3) To receive any money or other valuable thing, before, during or after election, on account of himself or any other person, having voted to secure the election or endorsement of any other person as the nominee or candidate of any convention, organized assemblage of delegates, or other body, representing or claiming to represent a political party or principle, or any club, society or association, or on account of himself or any other person having aided in securing the election or endorsement of any other person as a nominee or candidate as aforesaid.

Penalty for Violation of Act.

2867. [Sec. 29.] Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the provisions of any law of this State relating to elections, who wilfully neglects or refuses to perform it, or who, in his official capacity, knowingly and fraudulently acts in contravention or violation of any of the provisions of such laws, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Competent Witnesses.

2868. [Sec. 30.] A person offending against any provision of this act is a competent witness against another person so offending, and may be compelled to attend and testify upon. any trial, hearing,proceeding or lawful investigation or judicial proceeding, in the same manner as any other person. But the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil, or criminal, against the person so testifying. A