180 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

CORONERS AND INQUESTS.

151. The fees of coroners in said city shall be as follows, viz.:

for each separate coroner's inquest held by any coroner, or any
justice of the peace acting as coroner, four dollars and seven-
teen cents; for a coffin, two dollars and fifty cents; and for
digging grave and burying body, two dollars and fifty cents.

152. The Register of the city shall pay the coroners of said
city the fees due them quarterly, commencing the first day of
April in each year. •

153. The coroners of said city shall hold an inquest over all
persons found dead in said city, where the manner and cause of
such death shall not be clearly known as accidental or in the
course of nature.

154. No juror summoned by a coroner or justice of the peace
on an inquest in said city shall receive any fee or compensation
for his services.

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.

155. Any person who shall, without any provocation, assault
and beat any person in any of the streets, lanes, alleys or high-
ways of the city of Baltimore, or at any place of public resort
or amusement, between the hours of six o'clock in the evening
and six o'clock in the following morning, or who shall counsel,
aid or abet in such assault and battery, shall be fined in a sum
not less than twenty-five dollars, and imprisoned not less than
one month, or the judge of the Criminal Court of Baltimore
city, or the judge having jurisdiction of the offence, may, in his
discretion, sentence the person convicted of such offence to con-
finement in the penitentiary for a period not less than six
months nor more than two years-

156. It shall not be necessary to state with more particularity
than is now necessary in proceedings for assaults and batteries,
the time or place of such assault and battery in the recognizance
or commitment on which the said person is tried, but the said
person may be tried on a recognizance or commitment for a
common assault and battery, and shall be sentenced by the court
according to the facts proved at the trial.