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money received or disbursed by him for any of the objects or 
purposes mentioned in section 17 of this act within the period 
beginning ninety days before such election and ending on the 
day on which such statement is filed, the date of receipt and 
each disbursement, the name of the person from whom received 
or to whom paid, and the object or purpose for which the same 
was received and the object or purpose for which disbursed. 
Such statement shall also set forth the unpaid debts and obliga¬ 
tions if any of such committee, with the nature and amount of 
each, and to whom owing, in detail, and if there are no unpaid 
debts or obligations of such committee, such statement shall 
state such fact. 
Sec. 21. Every officer required by law to issue certifi¬ 
cates of election or commissions as the result of elections shall 
receive, and file in his office and there keep as part of the 
records thereof for four years after they are filed, all statements 
and accounts required by this act to be filed with him. Such 
statements and accounts shall, at all reasonable times, be open 
to the public inspection. After four years succeeding the filing 
of such statements they shall be destroyed by such officer or 
his successor. Copies of such statements, certified by such of¬ 
ficer under the seal of his office, of any such statement or state¬ 
ments; and any copy so certified shall be admitted in evidence 
in all courts with like force and effect as the original would have 
produced. 
Sec. 22. Every treasurer of a political committee as de¬ 
fined in this act who shall willfully fail, neglect or refuse to 
make out, verify and file with the recorder of deeds the 
statement required by section 20 of this act, shall be guilty of 
a misdemeanor, and upon a conviction shall be fined not less 
than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. 
Sec. 23. Every treasurer of a political committee, and 
every person who shall receive any money to be applied to any 
of the purposes mentioned in section 17 of this act, who shall 
either: 
First —Neglect or fail to keep a correct book or books of ac¬ 
count, setting forth all the details required to be set forth in the 
account and statement contemplated in sections 19 and 20 of 
