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corporation so offending in any particular, shall, upon conviction thereof
be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year
nor more than three years and by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars
nor more than one thousand dollars in the discretion of the Court for each
offense; one-half of the fine shall be paid to the informer who may be the
person whose vote was bribed or coerced, etc., as above and upon whom no
penalty is placed and who shall not be subject to prosecution for selling or
delivering his vote or refraining from voting, and the other half to the
State of Maryland.

Cited but not construed in Cochran v. State, 119 Md. 547.

For abolition of informer's fees, see art. 38, sec. 3.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 217. 1912, sec. 199B. 1912, ch. 2, sec. 160Y. 1937, ch. 95, sec. 217.

255. Within seven days after the day of any primary election any
candidate for a nomination or for delegate to any convention or for execu-
tive or member of any committee or position who has been defeated on the
face of the returns may petition the Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore
City or of any county of the State for an appeal from and review of the
action and decision of the judges of election in counting the ballots and
for a recanvass and recount of the ballots cast in any or all of the precincts
of said county or city or ward or legislative district or political division
therein or if said candidate was running for a State office or for Congress
or for judge he may petition for said recount in two or more counties or
legislative districts or wards or precincts of Baltimore City simultaneously.

The Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City and of the several
counties of the State are hereby given jurisdiction and power to hear and
determine said appeals; to review and correct the action of the Judges of
Election in their respective jurisdictions and to recanvass, recount and
certify said result of said primary election. And for all the purposes of
said review, recount, recanvass, etc., the said Supervisors of Elections shall
act and be judges of election for counting said ballots acting as such in
the premises within their respective geographical jurisdictions.

Upon the filing of said petition as aforesaid accompanied by affidavits
made by officers of election or by watchers, challengers or by other persons
setting forth acts of fraud, mistake, error or irregularity in making said
count or returns by the Judges of Election or setting forth that some
of the returns and tally-sheets of said primary election show on their face
ambiguity, error, or fraud, mistake or miscalculation by the judges of elec-
tion, or if no such affidavits are filed with said petition and the petitioner in
lieu of such affidavits offers to give and does give bond, in amount to be
fixed in each instance and approved by a judge of the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City or of the Circuit Court for the county as the case may be,
to pay the reasonable costs of said appeal, recount, review and recanvass.
The said supervisors shall in either event produce before them the ballot
boxes, returns, tally-sheets and paraphernalia of said election, and/or
ascertain, in the manner provided by Section 263 of this Article, the votes
recorded upon the voting machines, and shall proceed forthwith in a sum-
mary way without answer, pleading or technicality and without requiring
any evidence to be taken or proof submitted, to review the actions of the
Judges of Elections and recount the ballots in those precincts named in said
petition in said county, city, legislative district, ward or other political
divison thereof, as the case may be, in which paper ballots are used.

Said review, recount and recanvass shall be had with all possible expedi-
tion and dispatch and in preference to all other business under such mode
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