134 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

petition, as the ends of justice may require, shall be satisfied
that the purposes of this Act and the interests of public justice
require further proceedings upon such petition, and against the
party or parties named as defendant or defendants therein, it
shall order such reasonable notice of such petition, or of such
further proceedings, to be given the defendant or defendants,
and require him or them to answer, show cause or otherwise
defend as the court may deem just and reasonable, upon the
petitioners giving security for costs in such sum of money as
the court shall deem reasonable. Such petition shall be tried
without a jury, unless any of the parties thereto shall elect to
have the same tried by a jury. The case shall, if possible, be
tried in and during the term in which such petition may "be
filed, and when a jury trial is demanded by any of the parties to
such petition, the jury for said term shall try it; and if the jury
for said term shall have been dismissed, the court shall recall
said jury for the purpose of trying said case. If such case
arises during any non-jury term of any of said courts, the court
shall recall and reassemble the jury which served during the
last preceding jury term of said court, for the purpose of trying
said case, and such jury so called and reassembled shall
have the power to try said case as fully as if the same had
arisen during the term for which they shall have previously
served. If in any case it shall not be possible to try such case
during the term in which such petition shall have been filed it
shall be tried during the next succeeding term of the court. In
every such 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 hearing, determination and judgment as speedily as a
just regard for the rights of the parties concerned may permit
and shall expeditiously inquire into, or, when a jury is de-
manded, cause the jury to inquire into all the facts and circum-
stances and into such violations 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 there-
with, which at any time the court holding such inquest or pre-
siding in said cause shall deem necessary to secure compliance
with the provisions of this Act, or to punish for a violation
thereof. All persons whom the Court shall deem proper or nec-
essary to join or bring in as parties to any such proceeding in
order to make its order, judgments or writs effective, maybe