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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 elec-
tion. 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 decision that his political agent was so guilty shall not
render him ineligible to office; but where the judge or judges shall
decide or certify upon his or their 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 without his sanction or connivance; (b) the offense was
of a trivial, unimportant and limited character; (c) in all other respects
such election was free from corrupt practice on the part of such candi-
date and of his political agent, then the election of such candidate shall
not be void, nor shall the candidate be subject to any ineligibility
therefor.*

Primary Elections.

1008, ch. 737, sec. 160A. 1910, ch. 741, sec. 160A (p. 113). 1912, ch. 2. 1912, ch.
134. 1914, ch. 163, sec. 160A. 1914, ch. 475, sec. 160A.

178. Political parties which at the general election held on Novem-
ber 2nd, 1909, in the State of Maryland, or which at any future general
election next preceding any primary election to be held hereunder, as
shall have polled ten per cent, of the entire vote cast in the State at such
or any such general election, shall hereafter nominate all their candi-
dates for public office in and for Baltimore City, and the several coun-
ties of the State and for Judges and for the House of Representatives
of the Federal Congress, and shall elect all delegates to county, legisla-
tive district, Congressional. City and State conventions, and all mem-
bers of managing bodies in said political parties, in and for Baltimore
City and the several counties of the State, and all precinct, ward, city
and county executive or executive committees, whenever the political
party usage provides for such executive committees, or any of the same,
by means of primary elections conducted under and in accordance with
the provisions of this sub-title and not otherwise, except as herein
specifically provided, and the several boards of supervisors of elections
shall not print on the official ballot to be voted at any general or special
election to be hereafter held the name or names of any such candidate
or candidates for election in Baltimore City or any of the counties of

*Section 2 of the act of 1912, chapter 228, contains a very broad "saving"
clause as to prior offenses, pending cases, etc.