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197. Upon the sale of any slave, the proceeds of such sale,
after deducting the expense thereof, shall be paid over to the
county or city where he was convicted.

198. If any slave or servant be convicted of any crime the
punishment whereof may be death or sale, the court before
whom such conviction shall take place, shall immediately pro-
ceed to value such slave or the time of such servant and enter
the same on the proceedings of the court, and such value shall
be assessed and collected with the county or city assessment and
paid to the owner of such slave or servant.

299. After the termination of confinement in the penitentiary,
either by expiration of the term or by pardon of any free negro
now therein, the directors of the penitentiary are directed to
pay him, out of the proceeds of his labor, a sum of money not
exceeding thirty dollars—and such convict shall be banished
from this State. And if any such convict shall be found in this
State after sixty days from the day of his discharge from the
penitentiary, he may be apprehended and sold by any person
finding him, as a slave for the term of his original conviction,
upon proof being shown to any judge of a court of record, or
any two justices of the peace of the county where said dis-
charged convict shall be apprehended, that he has been con-
fined in and discharged from the penitentiary.

200. If any person purchasing a negro convicted under this
article, shall sell the said negro for a longer time than that for
which he has purchased him, or in any other manner continue
to deprive him of his freedom, when the term of service has ex-
pired for which he was sold, he shall be fined a sum in double
the amount for which the said negro was sold, and in default of
payment shall be imprisoned for a term of not less than thirty
nor more than ninety days, or may be both fined and imprisoned
in the discretion of the court.

SODOMY.

201. Every person convicted of the crime of sodomy, shall be
sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than one year nor
more than ten years.