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in accordance with existing laws, or should be sentenced to the
penitentiary in the same manner with adults convicted of like
crimes, and to bind out or sentence such infant accordingly.

188. It shall be the duty of the courts of this State, in sen-
tencing convicts to the penitentiary, to sentence them for such
a period as will expire between the first day of April and the
last day of August, if they shall deem it expedient to do so.

189. The courts of this State, in sentencing convicts to the
penitentiary in compliance with the provisions of the preceding
section, may, in their discretion, sentence them to be confined in
the said penitentiary for a period not less than eighteen months,
in cases where the least punishment prescribed for the offence
is two years.

190. No conviction or attainder shall work corruption of
blood or forfeiture of estate; the estate of such persons as shall
destroy their own lives, shall descend or vest as in case of na-
tural death; if any person be killed by casualty, there shall be
no forfeiture in consequence thereof; an approver shall never
be admitted, in any case whatsoever; and a sentence of death
shall not be executed in less than twenty days after judgment.

191. The real and personal estate of the person convicted and
sentenced to undergo a confinement 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 apprehension, prosecution, convic-
tion, and removal of such criminal; and in. order to ascertain
the amount thereof, the court before whom such offender is con-
victed, shall cause its clerk to certify to the keeper of the peni-
tentiary the amount of reparation adjudged, and all costs and
charges incurred in the prosecution and conviction of such
offender, which the keeper shall enter in books to be by him
kept for that purpose.

192. In all cases where restitution or reparation is adjudged
to be made to the party injured, and immediate restitution or
reparation is not fully made, the court before whom the offender
is convicted shall, at the instance of the party injured, issue
execution against the property of such convicted persons in the
name of the person injured, for the value of the property taken,
or so much thereof as is not restored; such value to be estimated