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208 shall issue for said fine and costs, as is prescribed in the next preceding section; and further, such person or persons, after replevying the fine and costs, as aforesaid, shall not be imprisoned for such fine and costs, but such person or persons shall be wholly discharged from any imprisonment, in consequence of any conviction, unless where imprisonment is by this chapter made a part of the punishment; in that case, such convicted person or persons shall be discharged from his or her, or their imprisonment, at the expiration thereof, if he, she, or they have replevied the fine and costs as aforesaid.

. 193. Executions for fines and costs of prosecution, and on recognizances taken in pursuance of the preceding section, may be issued into any county in this territory.

. 191. Whenever it shall be made satisfactory to appear to the district court, after all legal means have been exhausted, that any person who is confined in jail for any fine or costs of prosecution, for any criminal offence, hath no estate wherewith to pay such fine and costs, or costs only, it shall be the duty of the said court to discharge such person from further imprisonment for such fine and costs; which discharge shall operate as a complete release of such fine and costs: Provided, That nothing herein shall authorize any person to be discharged from imprisonment before the expiration of the time for which he or she may be sentenced to be imprisoned, as part of his or her punishment.

. 195. In all cases of bail for the appearance of any person or persons charged with any criminal offence, the security or securities of such person or persons may, at any time before judgment is rendered, upon scire facias to show cause why execution should not issue against such security or securities, seize and surrender such person or persons charged as aforesaid, to the sheriff of the county wherein the recognizance shall be taken, and it shall be the duty of such sheriff on such surrender, and the delivery to him of a certified copy of the recognizance by which such security or securities are bound, to take such person or persons, so charged as aforesaid, into custody, and by writing, acknowledge such surrender, and thereupon the security or securities shall be discharged from such recognizance, upon payment of all costs occasioned thereby.