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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1809.

indictment
Is found,
the record,
may be
transmitted
to an
adjoining
county.

within the same or any adjoining district, in which the same
shall be heard and determined, in the same manner as if such
prosecution had been originally instituted therein ; provided,
that all costs incident on the trial and final determination of the
same, and all costs and charges incurred by removing the offen-
der, if convicted, to the penitentiary, as herein directed, shall be
paid, borne and defrayed, by the county in .which the indict-
ment was found, and the clerk of the court in which such trial
and determination was had, shall make out a true and full bill
of all such costs and charges, and certify the same to the levy
court of the county in which such indictment was found, and
the same shall be levied, collected, and paid over to the persons
entitled thereto, in like manner as other county dues are levied,
collected and paid.

The value
of a slave,
or the time
of a servant
to be deter-
mined by
the court,
and paid to
the owner.

SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That if any slave or servant be
convicted of any crime, the punishment whereof may be death
or a confinement in the penitentiary, the court before whom
such conviction and condemnation shall take place, shall, im-
mediately thereafter, proceed to value such slave, or the time of
such servant, and enter the same in their proceedings, and such
value shall be assessed and collected with the county assess-
ment, and paid to the owner of such slave or servant ; and if
any slave or servant sentenced to undergo a confinement in the
penitentiary, shall survive his or her time of confinement, such
slave or servant shall, immediately on the expiration thereof, be
sold at auction by the order of such court, or any two judges or
justices thereof, and the money arising from the sale shall be
applied to the use of the county in which the conviction took

Proviso.

place; Provided always, that such servant shall not be sold for
a longer time than shall remain unexpired of his or her servi-
tude at the time of his or her being sentenced.
See notes to the 9th section.
By 1818, ch. 157, the keeper of the penitentiary to deposite the money
arising from such sale, in some bank in the city of Baltimore, and imme-
diately to notify the clerk of the county for the use of which the said depo-
site shall have been made, &c.

Estate of
persons
sentenced
to be con-
fined or ex-
ecuted, to
be liable,
after repa-
ration to
the party
injured, for
the expen-
ses of the
state.

SEC, 22. And be it enacted, That the real and personal estate
of the person convicted and sentenced to undergo a confine-
ment in the penitentiary, or to be executed, shall, after paying
the retribution and reparation to the party injured, be liable to
the discharge of the expenses incurred by the state in the ap-
prehension, prosecution, conviction and removal, of such crimi-
nal ; and in order to ascertain the amount thereof, the court
before whom such offender is convicted, shall cause their clerk
to certify to the keeper of the penitentiary the amount of repa-
ration adjudged^ and all costs and charges incurred in the prose-