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vote was bribed or coerced, etc., as above and upon whom no
penalty is placed and who shall not be subject to prosecution
for selling or delivering his vote or refraining from voting,
and the other half to the State of Maryland.

160Y. Within seven days after the day of any primary
election any candidate for a nomination or for delegate to
any convention or for executive or member of any committee
or position who has been defeated on the face of the returns
may petition the Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City
or of any county of the State for an appeal from and review
of the action and decision of the judges of election in counting
the ballots and for a recanvass and recount of the ballots' cast in
any or all of the precincts of said county or city or ward or
legislative district or political division therein or if said candi-
date was running for a State office or for Congress or for judge
he may petition for said recount in two or more counties or
legislative districts or wards or precincts in Baltimore City
simultaneously.

The Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City and of the
several counties of the State are hereby given jurisdiction and
power to hear and determine said appeals; to review and correct
the action of the Judges of Election in their respective jurisdic-
tions and to recanvass, recount and certify said result of said
primary election. And for all the purposes of said review,
recount, recanvass, etc., the said Supervisors of Elections shall
act and be judges of election for counting said ballots acting
as such in the premises within their respective geographical
jurisdictions.

Upon the filing of said petition as aforesaid accompanied by
affidavits made by officers of election or by watchers, chal-
lengers or by other persons setting forth acts of fraud, mistake,
error or irregularity in making said count or returns by the
Judges of Election or setting forth that some of the returns
and tally sheets of said primary election show on their face
ambiguity, error, or fraud, mistake or miscalculation by the
judges of election, or if no such affidavits are filed with said
petition and the petitioner in. lieu of such affidavits offers to
give and does give bond, in amount to be fixed in each instance
and approved by a judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City or of the Circuit Court for the county as the case may
be, to pay the reasonable costs of said appeal, recount, review
and recanvass. The said Supervisors shall in either event pro-
duce before them the ballot boxes, returns, tally sheets and
paraphernalia of said election and shall proceed forthwith in
a summary way without answer, pleading or technicality and