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reasonable. Such petition shall be tried without a jury, unless
any of the parties thereto shall elect to have the same tried by
a jury. The case shall be tried not later than fifteen days
after such petition has been filed and within such period if
possible, and shall be given priority over other Court business,
and when a jury trial is demanded by any of the parties to such
petition, the jury for said term shall try it; and if the jury
for said term shall have been dismissed, the Court shall recall
said jury for the purpose of trying said case. If such case
arises during any non-jury term of any of said Courts, the
Court shall recall and reassemble the jury which served dur-
ing the last preceding jury term of said Court, for the purpose
of trying said case, and such jury so called and reassembled
shall have the power to try said case as fully as if the same
had arisen during the term for which they shall have previously
served. In every case in which a jury trial shall be demanded,
the judge shall frame and submit to the jury for its decision and
verdict all appropriate and necessary issues of fact presented
by the pleadings in such case or by the scope of the inquiry
or inquiries presented by said case. The Court shall bring said
cause to determination and judgment as speedily as a just
regard for the rights of. the parties concerned may permit and
shall expeditiously inquire into, or, when a jury is demanded,
cause the jury to inquire into all the facts and circumstances
and into such violations of or failure to comply with the pro-
visions of this article, as may be alleged in any sucE petition,
or into such other facts and circumstances relative to any elec-
tion or to any contribution, expenditure or liability made, or
any corrupt practice committed, in connection therewith, whieh
at any time the Court holding such inquest or presiding in
said cause shall deem necessary to secure compliance with the
provisions of this act, or to punish for a violation thereof. All
persons whom the Court shall deem proper or necessary to join
or bring in as parties to any such proceeding in order to make
its orders, judgments, or writs effective, may be joined as
parties in such manner and upon such notice as the Court may
direct. In case such petition relates to the election of electors
of President and Vice-President of the United States, a Sen-
ator of the United States, a Representative in Congress, or the
Governor, or Attorney-General, or a Senator or Delegate to the
General Assembly of Maryland, or a Judge, or a Clerk of a
Court of Law, or a Register of Wills, or a State's Attorney, the
trial judge or judges shall have no power to declare any such
election to be void, but shall file his or their finding, or, in a
case where a jury shall have been demanded, the finding or ver-