558 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

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.

F. G. L., (1860,) art 30, sec. 189 1825, ch 98. sec 1. 1839, ch 37.

300. 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.

Ibid sec 190 1809, ch 138, sec 10.

301. 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 natural
death; if any person be killed by casualty, there shall be no for
feiture in consequence thereof: an approver shall never be ad
mitted, in any cose whatsoever; and a sentence of death shall not
be executed in less than twenty days after judgment.

Ibid sec 191 1809, ch. 138, sec. 32

302. 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, conviction and
removal of such criminal; and in order to ascertain the amount
thereof, the court, before whom such offender is convicted, shall
cause its clerk to certify to the warden of the penitentiary
the amount of reparation adjudged, and all costs and charges
incurred in the prosecution and conviction of such offender,
which the warden shall enter in books to be by him kept for that
purpose.

Isaacs v. State, 23 Md. 410.

Ibid sec 192 1809, ch 138, sec. 23

303. 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