248 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30.

182. If any offender, on conviction, may be sentenced to suffer
death, the court before whom such offender shall be tried and
convicted, shall sentence him to (suffer death by hanging by the
neck.

188. Where a case has been removed for trial, and the party
shall be sentenced to be hung, the court shall remand him to the
place where the indictment was found, where the sentence shall
be executed, as if passed in that place.

184. When any white infant trader the age of fifteen years,
shall be convicted of any offence other than those mentioned in
the next succeeding section, the court may suspend the sentence
upon such convicted infant, and bind him or her to some person
residing in or out of this State, or may procure other employ-
ment for such infant in or out of this State, and shall have power
to compel such infant to comply with the terms of its judgment;
but such infant shall not be bound to service in the county or city
where the conviction was had, nor for a term extending beyond
the age of eighteen years in females, and twenty-one in males.

185. All white infants over twelve and under the age of fifteen
years, who may be convicted of mayhem, murder in the second
degree, manslaughter, assault with intent to commit murder or
mayhem, or of setting fire to any building, tenement, or pro-
perty, the setting fire to which is punishable by confinement in
the penitentiary in the case of adults, shall be sentenced to the
penitentiary for the said crime, in the same manner as if they
were of full age.

186. Any court in this State having criminal jurisdiction, may
bind out to the managers of any house of refuge, or other insti-
tution under police regulations within the limits of the said State,
all white infants over twelve and under the age of fifteen years,
until they shall arrive at an age of not less than eighteen, nor
more than twenty-one years, "who shall be convicted of any
offence punishable in adults by confinement in the penitentiary,
other than those specified in the next preceding section.

187. It shall be the duty of every court having criminal juris-
diction, to examine into the character of all infants convicted of
offences for which they may be bound as apprentices under the
preceding section, and to exercise a sound discretion in deter-
mining whether the said infant so convicted should be bound out