8.  In the case of Samuel A. Mudd, the commission, having maturely considered the evidence adduced, finds the accused as follows: 

Of the specification, “Guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty; and except receiving, entertaining, harboring, and concealing Lewis Payne, John H. Surratt, Michael O’Laughlin, George A. Atzerodt, Mary E. Surratt, and Samuel Arnold; of this, not guilty.”

Of the charge, “Guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty.”

And the commission does therefore sentence him, the said Samuel A. Mudd, “To be imprisoned at hard labor for life at such penitentiary as the President of the United States shall designate.”

II.  The proceedings, findings, and sentences in the foregoing cases having been submitted to the President of the United States, the following are his orders: 

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 5, 1865.

The foregoing sentences in the cases of David E. Herold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael O’Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt, and Samuel A. Mudd are hereby approved, and it is ordered that the sentences in the cases of David E. Herold, G.A.  Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, and Mary E. Surratt be carried into execution by the proper military authority, under the direction of the Secretary of War, on the 7th day of July, 1865, between the hours of 10 o’clock a.m. and 2 o’clock p.m. of that day.  It is further ordered that the prisoners Samuel Arnold, Samuel A. Mudd, Edward Spangler, and Michael O’Laughlin be confined at hard labor in the penitentiary at Albany, N.Y., during the period designated in their respective sentences.

ANDREW JOHNSON, President.

III.  Major-General W.S.  Hancock, United States Volunteers, commanding Middle Military Division, is commanded to cause the foregoing sentences in the cases of David E. Herold, G.A.  Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, and Mary E. Surratt to be duly executed in accordance with the President’s order.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 15, 1865.

IV.  The Executive order dated July 5, 1865, approving the sentences in the cases of Samuel Arnold, Samuel A. Mudd, Edward Spangler, and Michael O’Laughlin, is hereby modified so as to direct that the said Arnold, Mudd, Spangler, and O’Laughlin be confined at hard labor in the military prison at Dry Tortugas, Florida, during the period designated in their respective sentences.

The Adjutant-General of the Army is directed to issue orders for the said prisoners to be transported to the Dry Tortugas, and to be confined there accordingly.

ANDREW JOHNSON, President.

V. Major-General W.S.  Hancock, United States Volunteers, commanding Middle Military Division, is commanded to send the prisoners Samuel Arnold, Samuel A. Mudd, Edward Spangler, and Michael O’Laughlin, under charge of a commissioned officer, with a sufficient guard, to the Dry Tortugas, Florida, where they will be delivered to the commanding officer of the post, who is hereby ordered to confine the said Arnold, Mudd, Spangler, and O’Laughlin at hard labor during the periods designated in their respective sentences.