Section 51
SEC. 51. Section twenty-six hundred and forty of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2640. Premature or improper examination of ballots.—Any officer of election who before the ballots are opened for counting reads or examines, or permits to be read or examined, the names written upon the ballot of any voter, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than two years and by a fine of not less than one hundred pesos nor more than two thousand pesos. "Any municipal treasurer or other officer having custody thereof who examines or permits to be examined, except as prescribed by law, any ballots returned to him by the board of inspectors, or who fails to deliver the keys of the boxes as provided in section four hundred and fourteen of this Act or opens the boxes, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than two years, and by a fine of not less than five hundred pesos nor more than two thousand pesos, and in all cases by deprivation of the right of suffrage and disqualification from public office for a period of not more than ten years."