Sec. 926. TIME OF EXECUTION. In case of a sentence of death, the time fixed for the execution of the sentence shall not be considered an essential part of the sentence, and if it be not executed at the time therein appointed, by reason of the pendency of an appeal or for other cause, the court may appoint another day for carrying the same into

execution.

Sec. 927. INSANE CRIMINALS. When any person tried upon an indictment for an offense is acquitted on the sole ground that he was insane at the time of its commission, that fact shall be set forth by the jury in their verdict; and whenever a person is indicted for an offense and before trial or after a verdict of guilty prima facie evidence is submitted to the court that the accused is then insane, the court may cause a jury to be impaneled from the jurors then in attendance on the court or, if the regular jurors have been discharged, may cause a sufficient number of jurors to be drawn to inquire into the insanity of the accused, and said inquiry shall be conducted in the presence and under the direction of the court. If the jury shall find the accused to be then insane (or if an accused person shall be acquitted by the jury solely on the ground of insanity) the court may certify the fact to the Secretary of the Interior, who may order such person to be confined in the hospital for the insane, and said person and his estate shall be charged with the expense of his support in the said hospital. The person whose sanity is in question shall be entitled to his bill of exceptions and an appeal, as in other cases.

Sec. 928. Any person becoming insane while undergoing a sentence of any court of the District of Columbia for crime may, in like manner, be committed to said hospital for the insane, by order of the Secretary of the Interior, to receive the same treatment as other patients during the continuance of his disorder.

Sec. 929. RESTORATION TO SANITY.- When any person confined in the hospital for the insane, charged with crime and subject to be tried therefor or undergoing sentence therefor, shall be restored to sanity the superintendent of the hospital shall give notice thereof to the justice holding the criminal court and deliver him to the court according to its proper precept.

Sec. 930. EXTRADITION.-In all cases where the laws of the United States provide that fugitives from justice shall be delivered up, the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia shall cause to be apprehended and delivered up such fugitive from justice who shall be found within the District, in the same manner and under the same regulations as the executive authorities of the several States are required to do by the provisions of sections fifty-two hundred and seventy-eight and fifty-two hundred and seventy-nine, title sixty-six, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, "Extradition," and all executive and judicial officers are required to obey the lawful precepts or other process issued for that purpose, and to aid and assist in such delivery.

Sec. 931. Any associate justice of said court shall have like power, in case of the illness, absence, or other disability of the chief justice, or when any such application shall be certified to him by the chief justice.

Sec. 932. CONDUCT OF PROSECUTIONS, AND SO FORTH.-The attorney for the District of Columbia shall hereafter be known as the [city solicitor] corporation counsel.

Prosecutions for violations of all police or municipal ordinances or regulations and for violation of all penal statutes in the nature of police or municipal regulations, where the maximum punishment is a fine only, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, shall be conducted in the name of the District of Columbia and by the city solicitor or his assistants. All other criminal prosecutions shall be conducted in the name of the United States and by the attorney [for] of the United States for the District of Columbia or his assistants.

Sec. 933. If in any case any question shall arise as to whether under the preceding section the prosecution should be conducted by the city solicitor or by the attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia, the presiding justice shall forthwith, either of his own motion or upon suggestion of the city solicitor or the attorney of the United States, certify the case to the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, which court shall hear and determine the question in a summary way. In every such case the defendant or defendants shall have the right to be heard in the court of appeals. The decision of such court shall be final.

Sec. 934. PLACE OF IMPRISONMENT. When any person shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months the court may direct that such imprisonment shall be either in the workhouse or in the jail. When any person is sentenced for a term longer than six months and not longer than one year such imprisonment shall be in the jail, and where the sentence is imprisonment for more than one year it shall be in the penitentiary. Cumulative sentences aggregating more than one year shall be deemed one sentence for the purposes of the foregoing provision. When the punishment of an offense may be imprisonment for more than one year the prosecution shall be in the supreme court of the District. When the maximum punishment is a fine only or imprisonment for one year or less the prosecution may be in the police court.

Sec. 935. APPEALS BY UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.—In all criminal prosecutions the United States or the District of Columbia, as the case may be, shall have the same right of appeal that is given to the defendant, including the right to a bill of exceptions: Provided, That if on such appeal it shall be found that there was error in the rulings of the court during the trial, a verdict in favor of the defendant shall not be set aside.

Sec. 936. COMMUTATION OF FINE. In all cases in the District of Columbia where a defendant is sent to jail or to the workhouse in default of the payment of a fine he shall be released upon the payment of the balance of the fine due by him after crediting thereon as paid an amount equal to the proportion the time thus served by him in the jail or workhouse bears to the whole time he was to serve under the sentence.

Sec. 937. DEDUCTION FOR GOOD CONDUCT.-All persons sentenced to and imprisoned in the jail or in the workhouse of the District of Columbia, and confined there for a term of one month or longer, who conduct themselves so that no charge of misconduct shall be sustained against them, shall have a deduction of five days in each month made from the term of their sentence and shall be entitled to their discharge so much the earlier upon the certificate of the warden of the jail for those confined in the jail and the certificate of the intendant of the 4360-02-13

Washington Asylum for those confined in the workhouse of their good conduct during their imprisonment (with the approval of the judge making the commitment); and it shall be the duty of said judge to write or cause to be written in the docket of his court, across the face of the commitment of the person to be so discharged, the following words: "Discharged by order of the court (giving date) on account of good conduct during imprisonment.

Sec. 938. BAIL. Whenever a person charged with crime is held to bail the court shall have power to allow a deposit with the clerk of such court of money in the amount of the bail instead of requiring a bond or recognizance, and in case of default to declare such deposit forfeited to the United States or the District of Columbia as the case may be.

Sec. 939. ABANDONMENT OF PROSECUTION.-If any person charged with a criminal offense shall have been committed or held to bail to await the action of the grand jury, and within nine months thereafter the grand jury shall not have taken action on the case, either by ignoring the charge or by returning an indictment into the proper court, the prosecution of such charge shall be deemed to have been abandoned and the accused shall be set free or his bail discharged, as the case may be: Provided, however, That the supreme court of the District of Columbia holding a special term as a criminal court, or, in vacation, any justice of said court, upon good cause shown in writing, and, when practicable, upon due notice to the accused, may from time to time enlarge the time for the taking action in such case by the grand jury.

CHAPTER XXI.

DESCENTS.

Sec. 940. CHILDREN.-On the death of any person seized of an estate in fee simple in lands, tenements, or hereditaments in the District of Columbia, and intestate thereof, the same shall descend in fee simple to such person's kindred in the following order, namely: First. To his child or children and their descendants, if any, equally.

Sec. 941. ESTATE DESCENDED FROM FATHER. If there be no child or descendant of a child, and the estate descended to the intestate on the part of the father, then to the brothers and sisters of the intestate, of the blood of the father, and their descendants equally.

Sec. 942. If there be no brother or sister, as aforesaid, or descendant from a brother or sister, then to the grandfather on the part of the father; and if no such grandfather living, then to the descendants of such grandfather and their descendants in equal degree equally; and if no descendant of such grandfather, then to the father of such grandfather, and if none such living, then to the descendants of such father in equal degree; and so on, passing to the next lineal male paternal ancestor, and if none such, to his descendants in equal degree equally, without end.

Sec. 943. If there be no paternal ancestor or descendant from such ancestor, then to the mother of the intestate, and if no mother living, then to her descendants in equal degree equally.

Sec. 944. If there be no mother living, or descendants from such mother, then to the maternal ancestors and their descendants, in the same manner as is above directed as to the paternal ancestors and their descendants.

Sec. 945. ESTATE DESCENDED FROM MOTHER.-If the estate descended to the intestate on the part of the mother, and said intestate shall leave no child or descendant of a child surviving him, then the estate shall go to his brothers and sisters, of the blood of the mother, and their descendants in equal degree equally.

Sec. 946. If there be no such brother or sister or descendant of such brother or sister, then to the grandfather on the part of the mother, and if no such grandfather living, then to his descendants in equal degree equally; if no such descendant of such grandfather, then to the father of such grandfather, and if none such living, then to his descendants in equal degree; and so on, passing to the next male maternal ancestor, and, if none such living, to his descendants in equal degree equally.

Sec. 947. If there be no such maternal ancestor or descendant from such maternal ancestor, then to the father, and if no father living, then

to his descendants in equal degree equally; and if no father or descendant from the father, then to the paternal ancestors and their descendants, in the same manner as hereinbefore directed as to the maternal ancestors.

Sec. 948. ESTATE ACQUIRED BY PURCHASE. If the estate was acquired by the intestate by purchase, or descended to or vested in him in any other manner than as hereinbefore mentioned, and there be no child or descendant of a child of such intestate, then the estate shall descend to his brothers and sisters of the whole blood and their descendants in equal degree equally.

Sec. 949. HALF-BLOOD BROTHERS AND SISTERS. If there be no brother or sister of the whole blood, or descendant of such brother or sister, then to the brothers and sisters of the half blood and their descendants in equal degree equally.

Sec. 950. PATERNAL AND MATERNAL ANCESTORS ALTERNATELY. -If there be no brother or sister of the whole or the half blood, or any descendant from such, then to the father, and if no father living, then to the mother, and if no mother living, then to the grandfather on the part of the father, and if no such grandfather living, then to the descendants of such grandfather in equal degree equally; and if no such grandfather or any descendant from him, then to the grandfather on the part of the mother, and if no such grandfather, then to his descendants in equal degree equally; and so on without end, alternating the next male paternal ancestor and his descendants, and the next male maternal ancestor and his descendants, and giving preference to the paternal ancestor and his descendants.

Sec. 951. HUSBAND AND WIFE. If there be no descendants or kindred of the intestate, as aforesaid, to take the estate, then the same shall go to the husband or wife, if any, as the case may be; and if the husband or wife be dead, then to his or her kindred, in the like course as if such husband or wife had survived the intestate and had then died entitled to the estate by purchase; and if the intestate has had more husbands or wives than one, and all shall have died before such intestate, then the estate shall be equally divided among the kindred of the several husbands or wives in equal degree equally.

Sec. 952. TRUST ESTATES. Whenever a trustee is seized of the naked legal estate in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments in fee simple, and shall die intestate thereof, the said legal estate shall be deemed to have descended to such person or persons as would inherit the beneficial estate if the same were vested in him according to the provisions aforesaid.

Sec. 953. HEIR MUST BE SUCH AT TIME OF DEATH OF ANCESTOR.No right in the inheritance shall accrue to or vest in any person other than the children of the intestate and their descendants, unless such person is in being and capable in law to take as heir at the time of the intestate's death; but any child or descendant of the intestate born after the death of the intestate shall have the same right of inheritance as if born before his death.

Sec. 954. WHEN WHOLE AND HALF BLOOD TAKE EQUALLY. -There shall be no distinction between brothers and sisters of the whole and of the half blood, all being descendants of the same father, where the