ELECTIONS 1515

ously 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 speed-
ily 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 viola-
tions of or failure to comply with the provisions of this article, as may be
alleged in any such petition, or into such other facts and circumstances
relative to any election or to any contribution, expenditure or liability
made, or any corrupt practice committed, in connection therewith, which
at any time the Court holding such inquest or presiding in said cause shall
deem necessary to secure compliance with the provisions of this sub-title,
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 pro-
ceeding 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 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 candi-
date, was so guilty of corrupt practices, with the Secretary of State, together
with the transcript of the evidence, and the Secretary of State shall there-
upon 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 Attor-
ney-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 Mary-
land; 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 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 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 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