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this state, to issue, under his hand, a warrant to the sheriff of the

county to execute the said judgment at such time as he shall

therein appoint — 1795, ch. 82, sec. 1, .....

328

The governor shall, in his discretion, commute or change any sentence

or judgment of death passed on any criminal by any court of this

state into other punishment of labour, or to banishment of such

criminal from this state, upon such terms and conditions, and for

such period, as he shall think expedient, and if such criminal be a

slave, to commute or change the said judgment into transportation

and sale in some foreign country for the benefit of the state — 1795,

ch. 82, sec. 2, ..........

328

The governor shall have full power and authority, in granting any

nolle prosequi, before sentence or judgment, to grant the same on

such conditions, and under such limitations and restrictions therein

contained, as in his discretion may appear most advisable to pre-

serve and secure the peace and good government of this state —

1795, ch. 82, sec. 3, .........

328

Directions respecting the payment of fees, for and in criminal cases —

1715, ch. 26, p. 12 ; 1727, ch. 2, p. 69 ; 1766, ch. 6, .

109

On conviction for treason, the judgment shall be to suffer death by

hanging only, and the circumstance of cruelty of the judgment by

the law of England shall be omitted, and the judgment as to for-

feiture of property shall be as heretofore — April, 1782, ch. 42,

181

Punishment for forging any manifest or note for tobacco, or altering

the quantity, &.c.— 1801, ch. 63, sec. 26, .....

447

For knowingly exporting tobacco marked with a forged stamp, or

demanding tobacco on a forged note — 1801, ch. 63, sec. 27, .

448

For putting lobacco into a hogshead marked by an inspector, &.c. —

1801, ch. 63, sec. 27, .........

448

The testimony of inspectors to be admitted — 1801, ch. 63, sec. 27,

448

For selling or producing forged certificates as to tobacco notes lost —

1801, ch. 63, sec. 28, .........

418

For perjury relating thereto — 1801, ch. 63, sec. 28, ....

448

When sentence of death passed on a slave is commuted by the go-

vernor, the valuation to be paid by the treasurer — 1802, ch. 92,

467

The party prosecuted for a libel entitled to give the truth in evidence

by way of justification — 1803, ch. 54, .....

482

On suggestion, in writing, by a party indicted, supported by affidavit,

that a fair trial cannot be had in the court, the record to be re-

moved to any adjoining county court lor trial — 1804, ch. 55, sec. 3,

491

Proviso that further remedy by law may be given — 1804, ch. 55, sec. 3,

500

To be removed on such suggestion in writing by the attorney-general

or prosecutor for the state — 1804, ch. 55, sec. 4, .

491

Further regulations respecting the removal — 1804, ch. 65, sec. 49,

507

Not to alter the powers of the court of oyer and terminer for Balti-

more county, or to give criminal jurisdiction to Baltimore county

court— 1804, ch. 25, .

505

Persons mixing meal with wheat flour for sale, &c. to be fined and im-

prisoned— 1805, ch. 82, sec. 1, ......

511