The Department of State shall have the power, and its duty shall be, to keep a record of all death warrants, respites, pardons, remittances of fines, forfeitures, and commutations of sentences; and to pass upon and approve all proceedings for extradition of fugitives from justice before laying the same before the Governor; and to make report, quarterly, to the Department of Revenue and to the Department of the Auditor General, of all remissions of fines granted by the Governor.
71 P.S. § 277