146 CORONERS. [ART. 25.

the person or persons entitled to receive the same all sums of money,
all goods and chattels by him levied, seized or taken agreeably
to the directions of the writ or other process under which the
same shall have been levied, seized or taken; and shall also keep
and detain in safe custody all and every person committed to his
custody or by him taken in execution, or who shall be committed
for the want of bail, without suffering them to escape or depart
from his custody, and shall also satisfy and pay all judgments
which shall be rendered against him as coroner, and shall also
well and truly execute and perform the several duties required of
or imposed upon him by the laws of this State; and the said bond
shall, immediately after the execution thereof, be recorded in the
office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county in which he
is coroner, or in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of
Baltimore city, if lie is coroner in said city.

2. The provisions of this code in relation to the return of pro-
cess in the hands of a sheriff, upon his death or removal, shall
apply to process in the hands of a coroner upon the happening
of the like event.

3. No coroner shall summon or hold any jury of inquest over
the body of any deceased person where it is known that the de-
ceased came to his death by accident, mischance, or in any other
manner, except where the said person died in jail, or where there
are such circumstances attending the death or case as to amount
to a strong probability or reasonable belief that the deceased
came to his death by felony.

4. Whenever a jury shall be convened by a coroner, or justice
of the peace acting as coroner, on the body of any person found
dead, or supposed to have died from violence, within this State,
whereon any marks of violence shall appear, the jurors after
being sworn, and also the coroner or justice, may require the
attendance of some physician practising within the county or
city where such jury shall meet, to inform himself by due exa-
mination of the deceased of the cause of his death, and to testify
and give evidence before the said jury and coroner, or justice, in
the premises.

5. If any physician summoned to testify on a coroner's inquest,
shall neglect or refuse to attend or to make the examination re-
quired by the preceding section, or to give evidence as aforesaid,
he may be fined as any other witness.