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issuing from his department to be sealed therewith without affixing his
signature thereto.

1904, art. 41, sec. 3. 1888, art. 41, sec. 3. 1860, art. 42, sec. 3. 1853, ch. 21.

3. The governor, on the' presentation to him of a patent by the
commissioner of the land office, certified by said commissioner as proper
to be issued, shall be authorized to sign such patent and cause the great
seal to be affixed thereto.
See art. 54, sec. 44.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1888, art 41, sec. 4. 1860, art. 42, sec. 4. 1853, ch. 54.

4. The governor is authorized on application to affix the great seal
to copies of laws and resolutions, certified by the clerk of the court of
appeals under his seal to be true copies.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1888, art. 41, sec. 5. 1860, art. 42, sec. 6. 1795, ch. 82, sec. 1.

5. The governor is authorized and required whenever sentence of
death is pronounced on any criminal by the judgment of a court of
this State to issue a warrant to the sheriff of the county or city who
ought by law to execute such judgment, ordering and directing the
sheriff to execute said judgment at such time as in his warrant he shall
appoint.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1888, art. 41, sec. 6. 1860, art 42, sec. 7. 1787, ch. 17,
sec. 2. 1795, ch. S2, sec. 2. 1870, ch. 306.

6. The governor upon giving the notice required by the constitution
may commute or change any sentence of death into confinement in the
penitentiary or banishment, for such period as he shall think expedient,
and on giving such notice he may pardon any person convicted of crime
on such conditions as he may prescribe, or he may upon like notice remit
any part of the time for which any person may be sentenced to confine-
ment in the penitentiary on such like conditions without such remission
operating as a full pardon to any such person.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1888, art. 41, sec. 7. 1860, art. 42, sec. 8. 1787, ch. 17, sec. 4.
7. If any person pardoned on condition of leaving the State shall
return contrary thereto, such person may be arrested by warrant from
any judge or justice of the peace, and if on examination it shall appear
to such judge or justice that there is reasonable ground to believe that
the person arrested is the same person who was convicted and pardoned,
and that he returned contrary to the terms of such pardon, he shall be
committed to the jail of the county or city where arrested, and the
sheriff shall bring him before the first circuit court for the county, or
if in Baltimore city before the first criminal court of Baltimore which
shall happen thereafter, and if on appearing such person shall acknowl-
edge himself to be the same person pardoned on condition of leaving the
State, and that he returned contrary thereto, the court shall record such
confession and proceed to pass judgment according to law, and if the
person shall deny that he is the same person convicted and pardoned as