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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 candi-
date, 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 for
Representatives in Congress, shall submit the same, certified
under the seal of the State, to the Speaker of the House of Rep-
resentatives; 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 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 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 prac-
tices and said trial judge or judges shall also file with the Gov-
ernor his or their decision, and as to whether or not upon the
findings in such case, such election was void as hereinafter pro-
vided. If the said case shall be heard and tried by two judges,
and they shall differ as to whether any such candidate in per-
son, or in the person of his political agent, was so guilty of cor-
rupt practices, or whether any such election was so void, they
shall 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 evi-
dence with such certificate. In case the decision or finding so