ART. 41] GREAT SEAL—PATENTS—PARDONS. 1177

1886, 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 commis-
sioner as proper to be issued, shall be authorized to sign such
patent and cause the great seal to be affixed thereto.

Ibid. 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. 1860, art. 42, 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. 6. 1860, art 42, 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
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 condi-
tions as he may prescribe, or he may upon like notice remit
any part of the time for which any person may be senteEced
to confinement in the penitentiary on such like conditions
without such remission operating as a full pardon to any such
person.

Ibid sec. 7. 1860, art 42, sec 8. 1787, ch. 17, sec. 4.

7. If any person pardoned on condition of leaving the Sta.te
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 appear-
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