ART. 33] ELECTION EXPENSES——CORRUPT PRACTICES. 563

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 Senator 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 verdict of such jury, as to whether or not the
successful candidate, or any political committee or treasurer, or sub-
treasurer, or political agent acting for or on behalf of such candidate,
was so guilty of corrupt practices, with the Secretary of State, together
with the transcript, of 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 Representatives 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 Mary-
land, 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 immediately 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 committ.ee 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 Governor 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 immediately 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
acting 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