762 GOVERNOR. [ART. 41.

P. G. L , (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 nnder his seal to be true copies.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1795, ch. 82, sec. 1.

5. The governor is authorized and required, whenever sen-
tence 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. 7. 1787, ch 17, sec. 2... 1795, ch. 82, sec. 2. 1870, ch. 306.

6. The governor, upon giving the notice required by the con-
stitution may commute or change any sentence of death into con-
finement 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 pre-
scribe, or he may, upon h'ke notice, remit any part of the time
for which any person may be sentenced to confinement in the
penitentiary, on such like conditions, without such remission oper-
ating as a full pardon to any such person.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1787, ch.' 17, sec. 4.

7. If any person pardoned on condition of leaving the State,
shall return contrary thereto, such pesson may be arrested by
warrant from any judge or justice of the peace; and if, on. exami-
nation, 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 acknowledge 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