PARDONS.
CHAPTER 64.
AN ACT REGULATING PARDONS BY THE GOVERNOR.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Section 1. That, in all cases where the governor is authorized to grant pardons, he may, upon the petition of the person convicted, grant a pardon, upon such conditions, and with such restrictions, and under such limitations, as he may think proper, and he may issue his warrant to all proper officers to carry into effect such pardon; which warrant shall be obeyed and executed instead of the sentence, if any, which was originally awarded.
Sect. 2. Whenever any convict is pardoned by the governor, or his punishment commuted, the officer to whom the warrant for that purpose is issued after executing the same, shall make return thereof, under his hand, with his doings thereon to the governor, as soon as may be, and he shall also file with the clerk of the district court, in which the offender was convicted, an attested copy of the warrant and return, together with a brief abstract of which the clerk shall subjoin to the record of his conviction and sentence.
Sect. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
- Approved May 14, 1862.
