CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

and all accessaries thereto, may be tried in any
court (having jurisdiction,) of the county in which he
may be arrested, or into which he may be first
brought,
    On suggestion, in writing, by a person indicted, that
a fair trial cannot be had in the court, the record to be
transmitted to any adjoining county within the same,
or an adjoining district or trial,
—Directions as to the costs,
    Directions for the valuation of slaves and servants
on sentence of death, or confinement, &c. and payment
to the owner by the county,
—For the sale of slaves and servants for the remainder
of their time, after confinement, &c. and for payment
to the county,
    The estate of a person sentenced to confinement, or
to be executed, liable (after paying the reparation) to
the expenses of prosecution, &c.
—The court to cause the amount of reparation
and costs to be certified to the keeper of the penitentiary,
    Where reparation is adjudged and not made, execution
may be issued against the property for the value
estimated by the court, but not to deprive the party of
a civil action,
    On acquittal, in a trial for a misdemeanor, or on
pleading guilty and submission, the court may order
that no compensation for attendance of the prosecutor
be allowed,
    The penitentiary house, near Baltimore city, appropriated
for the reception of criminals, &c.
—Appropriation of the cells for the prisoners separately,
—Directions for the removal of persons convicted
thereto, by the sheriff—and fine for wilful neglect,
—As to the treatment of prisoners, clothing, diet,
labour, &c.  See Penitentiary.
    Offenders escaping to suffer on conviction additional
confinement and labour, and corporal punishment,
as may be adjudged by the Baltimore criminal court,
—Keepers, deputies, or other persons corruptly aiding
in such escape, to be sentenced, on conviction, to
confinement, &c. not more than 15 years,
    The criminal court of Baltimore to charge the grand
jury at every term to inquire into the conduct of the
keeper, &c. and to direct any number, not exceeding
six, to visit and examine the penitentiary,
    Measures directed to be taken on the completion of
the building for the reception of criminals, and the
commencement of this act,
—Manner of removing the criminals from the public
roads for confinement in the penitentiary,
    Persons convicted of crimes committed before this
act, to be punished according to the laws then in force,
or on their prayer, sentenced according to this act, as
if committed since the passage thereof,
    Any person presented or indicted may submit to the
court for a decision on the whole merits,
—Such submission not considered as admitting the
fact, or charging the person with costs, if not guilty,
    Nothing in the act concerning the amendment of judicial
proceedings, to extend to criminal cases,
    Regulations concerning the costs or fees of constables
in criminal prosecutions,
    The 3d section of the act of November 1787, ch. 44,
relating to costs in criminal cases repealed,
—Provided that there shall be deducted from such
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