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receipt of the warrant and the time when such election shall be
held.

CONTESTED ELECTIONS.

52. All contested elections for Comptroller and Commissioner
of the Land Office, shall be decided by the House of Delegates.

53. All cases of contested elections of any of the officers not
provided for in the Constitution, or in the preceding section, shall
be decided by the judges of the several Circuit Courts—each in
his respective circuit—and by the Superior Court of Baltimore
city, in the city of Baltimore.

54. Each judge of the Circuit Court, and of the Superior Court
of Baltimore city, may adopt such mode of proceeding in cases
of contested elections, and prescribe such rules for taking testi-
mony and adjudging costs, as to him shall seem most satisfactory
and least expensive.

55. The party intending to contest an election for the Senate
or House of Delegates, shall give notice of such intention to the
person returned, within thirty days after the judges of election
shall have made known publicly the state of the polls, unless at
a special election to fill a vacancy, when such notice shall be given
within ten days after the state of the polls is announced by the
judges of election.

56. Such notice shall be delivered in writing, at the usual
residence of the person returned; and if he be absent, shall be
left there.

57. The party intending to make examinations shall, after such
notice, apply to some justice of the peace of the county or city
wherein the election is contested, and shall obtain a notice under
his hand and seal, directed to the opposite party, and requiring
him to attend in person or by attorney, and cross examine wit-
nesses.

58. The justice, in such cases, shall have the usual power to
coerce the attendance of witnesses.

59. The notice of the justice shall contain the names of the
witnesses, with the faots expected to be proved by them—and

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