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Rh —Any person, who either directly or indirectly, has given or has promised to give an elector money, goods, notes, or public or private employment, with the object of obtaining a vote for himself, of enabling another person to obtain the same, or of preventing the elector from voting for another person, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five yen and of not more than fifty yen.

The same rule applies to the person who has received such gift or promise.

—Any person, who has either obtained a vote for himself, or has enabled another person to obtain the same, or has prevented an elector from voting for another person by either directly or indirectly giving or promising to give the elector money, goods, notes, or public or private employment, shall be dealt with according to the provision of Art. 234 of the Criminal Law.

Any person who has voted or who has refrained from voting in consideration of such gift or promise shall be dealt with in a like manner.

—Any person who has done violence to an elector with the object of obtaining a vote for himself, or enabling another person to obtain the same, or of preventing an elector from voting for another person, shall be sentenced to a minor confinement without hard labour of not less than one month and of not more than six months, with a fine of not less than five yen and of not more than fifty yen.

—Any person who, by doing violence to an elector, has obtained a vote for himself, or enabled another person to obtain the same, or has prevented the elector from voting for another person, shall be liable to be sentenced to a minor confinement without hard labour of not less than three months and of not more than two years, with a fine of not less than ten yen and of not more than a hundred yen.

—Whoever assembles a crowd of people for the purpose of either intimidating electors, of causing disturbance at a voting place or at an election meeting, or of detaining, damaging, or plundering a ballot-box, shall be liable to be sentenced to a minor confinement without hard labour of not less than six months and of not more than two years, with a fine of not less than ten yen and of not more than a hundred yen.

Whoever knowingly joins such a crowd and aids to its influence, shall be liable to a minor confinement without hard labour of not less than fifteen days and of not more than two months, with a fine of not less than three yen and of not more than thirty yen.

Should the offender be carrying weapons or arms, one degree shall be added to the principal punishment.

—Whoever at the time of election, by force, or by doing violence to the election officers or witnesses, either disturbs a voting place or a place of election meeting, or detains, damages, or plunders a ballot-box, shall be liable to a minor confinement without hard labour of not less than four months and of not more than four years, with a fine of not less than twenty yen and of not more than two hundred yen.

Should the offender be carrying weapons or arms, one degree shall be added to the principal punishment.