Section 2
SEC. 2. If in the proceedings thus instituted by direction of the Civil Governor it shall appear to the Court of First instance that the judgment and sentence whose execution is sought was pronounced by a court having jurisdiction of the offense and of the persons convicted, and that the sentence has not been executed in whole or in part, and that the defendant has not been pardoned or amnestied or in any other way become entitled to be relieved from the execution of the sentence, the Court of First Instance shall make an order reciting the facts and directing the execution of the sentence in whole or in part as the case may be in accordance with the judgment of the court whose sentence is being executed, fixing a time and place for the same. The sentence shall be executed by the proper civil executive officer of the court in the manner in which it must have been executed by order of the court of military authority pronouncing the same.