The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-03-17

[PUBLTsHED BY AUTHoRITYj
No. lei
AN ACT to prescribe The manner of ape
PLYING for pardons.

SIC. l.. BE 1t enacted by the GepeTal
Assembly of the State Of Ohio, That all
pardons hereafter applied for on behalf of
any person or persons convicted in any
court of this Stale, of any crime punish
able under the laws thereof, by impriSon-
ment in the P~enitentiary OF the same,
and sentenced to such imprisonment or on
behalf of any person or persons convict
ed of any crime, the punishment, of which
is capital, under the laws of this State,
and sentenced to such punishment, shall
be made and conducted in the manner
and under the restrictions hereinafter pre-
scribed.
SEC. 2. Notice of the application for
such pardon shall be given to the Prose-
cutting Attorney of the county in which
the indictment wa found against such
person or persons so convicted and sem
fenced, at least three weeks before such
application shall be considered by the
Governor of the State a copy OF which
notice, acknowledged by such Prosecuting
Attorney, or certified under oath of a
credible witness, to be a true copy thereof,
shall accompany every such application to
the Governor; an a notice of such applicticn
setting forth the names of the person or
persons on whose behalf it is made, the
crime of which he, she or they, shall have
been convicted, the time of such couvic-
ton, and the term of Sentence, shall also
be published in some newspaper printed
in such county, and of general ~circula-
ton therein; or if there be no newspaper
published therein, then such notice shall
be posted on the door of the court house
of such county, at least three weeks be-
fore the Governor of the State shall con-
slider any such application a copy of
which notice, duly authenticated by some
creditable witness under oath, shall also
accompany such application Provided,
that in any case in which the application
is for the pardon of any person sentcn-
ced to capital punishment, and the time
from the date of the sentence to the time
of the execution thereof is less than three
weeks, that such notice shall only be
required to be served and published for
ten days before the consideration of such
application.
Sec. 8. 1t is hereby the duty of the
prosecuting attorney of the county in
which the Indictment was found, against
such person or persons on whose behalf
such application for pardon is made to
make out and forward to the Governor,
within ten days after the service of the
notice upon him, Jas herein before provi-
ded, a statement setting forth the time
of such trial and conviction, and the date
and term of such sentence, and also the
crime. of which such person or persons
were convicted, and he shall also briefly
state any circumstances in aggravation
or extenuation, if any such appeared in
testimony upon the trial of the peason or
persons in whose behalf such application
is made.
Sec. 4. That in any and every case
in which there is emminent danger of the
death of any person or persons so con-
victed and imprisoned, which fact shall
appear by the Certificate of the physician
OF the penitentiary, addressed to the Gov
ernor, which certificate may be accom-
panied by the recommendation of the war
den of the penitentlary, for the pardon of
such convict or convicts; and in every
case in which the warden of the p~eniten-
tiary, and the directors thereof, shall
unite in a recommendation to the Gov
ernor for the pardon of any such convict
or convicts, stating specifically the con-
siderations and reason why such applica-
ton is made, the provisions in the fore
going sections of this act shall not be con-
sidersd applicable.
SEC. 5. That this act shall take effect
on the first day of April, a. D. 1852.
JAMES G. JOHNSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
AARON PARDEE,
President, pro tempore, Of the Senate.
January 20, 1852.