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the evidence, and the secretary of state shall thereupon submit the
same to the governor of Maryland, when the election is for electors of
president or vice-president of the United States, or for attorney general
of the state; or when the election is for a representative or for rep-
resentatives in congress, shall submit the same, certified under the
seal of the State, to the speaker of the house of representatives; or
when the election is for senator of the United States, or for a member
of the state senate, shall submit the same to the president of the senate
of Maryland; or when the election is for governor or delegate to the
house of delegates of the general assembly of Maryland, or a judge, or
a clerk of a court of law, or a register of wills, to the speaker of the
house of delegates of Maryland; or when the election is for a state's
attorney, to the judges having criminal jurisdiction of the county and
city wherein he shall be elected. In case such petition relates to any
other office than those above referred to, the trial judge or judges shall
file with the governor his or their decision or the finding or verdict of
the jury in cases where there has been a jury trial, as to whether or
not the successful candidate, or a political committee or treasurer or
political agent, acting for or in his behalf, was so guilty of corrupt
practices and said trial judge or judges shall also file with the gov-
ernor his or their decision, and- as to whether or not upon the findings
in such case, such election was void as hereinafter provided. If the
said case shall be heard and tried by two judges, and they shall differ
as to whether any such candidate in person, or in the person of his
political agent, was so guilty of corrupt practices, or whether any such
election was so void, they shall so certify to the secretary of state, or
to the governor, as the case may be, and they shall also file a transcript
of the evidence with such certificate. In case the decision or finding so
to be filed' with the governor shall be that any successful candidate so
petitioned against was in person or in the person of a treasurer or sub-
treasurer or his political agent, or through any political committee act-
ing for or in his behalf, so guilty of corrupt practices, such election
shall be void, except as hereinafter provided, and in case of such void
election the governor shall, within five days after the receipt of such
decision, issue his proclamation declaring such election void, and the
vacancy in the office to have been filled by said election shall be filled in
the same manner as would be required by law in case said vacancy had
arisen from the death of the successful candidate after his election.
If any candidate shall have been so found, or decided to have been so
guilty in person of corrupt practices, he shall be ineligible to election
or appointment to any public office or employment for the period of
four years from the date of said election; but the mere finding or deci-
sion that his political agent was so guilty, shall not render him ineligi-
ble to office; but where the judge or judges shall decide or certify upon
his or their or a jury's findings in any case that any such successful
candidate was guilty of corrupt practices only in the person of his
agent, and that, (a) no corrupt practice was committed by the candidate
personally and the offense was committed contrary to his order and