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ing and distributing ballots and posters; (d) . . . renting 
rooms to be used by political committees ; (e) . . . compen- 
sating clerks and other persons employed in committee rooms 
and at the polls; (f) . . . traveling expenses of political 
agents, committees, and public speakers; (g) . . . neces- 
sary postage, telegrams, telephones, printing, express, and 
conveyance charges”. The personal expenses of the candi- 
date for postage, telegrams, telephones, stationery, printing, 
express, and traveling were exempted from the application of 
the act.-^ 
Treasurers and political agents including candidates acting 
as their own agents were required to hie with the secretary 
of state or the town clerk a sworn, itemized statement of all 
receipts and their sources, and all expenditures made or lia- 
bilities incurred. Such returns were to be preserved for 
hfteen months and kept open to public inspection. 
A person was deemed guilty of corrupt practices who re- 
ceived or solicited money or anything of value for the purpose 
of inducing any person to vote or not to vote at a caucus or 
primary election ; who, for a consideration, voted or refrained 
from voting ; who contributed anything to any person or com- 
mittee other than a legally appointed treasurer or political 
agent; who attempted to promote his own candidacy by 
promising appointments, or assistance in promoting the can- 
didacy of another person; or who made a contribution to a 
treasurer or political agent “in any other name than his own”. 
A penalty of a hne of not less than $50 nor more than $2,000, 
or imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than 
two years, or both, was provided for violation of the act.^^ 
The corrupt practices act of 1911, adopted by the legisla- 
ture, became the model for the corrupt practices provisions 
of the direct primary law enacted by the voters under the 
initiative clause of the constitution in September, 1911. 
Maine, Acts and Resolves, 1911, chap, cxxii, sec, 5. 
22 Ibid., sec. 6. 
22 Ibid., sec. 8. 
Ibid., sec. 11. 
