SEC. 152. Each of the four coroners shall boas-
signed to such sub-division or district of the City of
Baltimore, as the Governor may direct, and in case
of absence or illness of any coroner, lie shall deputise
some competent person to attend to the duties of his
office during his absence or illness.
SEC. 153. The coroner shall hold an inquest over
any person found dead in his district, in said city,
when the manner and cause of death shall not be
already known as accidental, or in the course of
nature. No Coroner's Jury in said city shall receive
any fee or compensation for services as such, and
said coroners are hereby authorized and empowered
to issue their certificates to the Register of Baltimore
city, for the payment of such expenses as may be
necessary for the interment of any person over whom
. they, or either of them, has held an inquest, and
whose body is not claimed by friends or relatives;
provided, the amount of such expenses shall not in
any case exceed the sum of seven dollars.
SEC. 154. Each of said coroners shall make a
monthly report to the Police Commissioners of Bal-
timore city, of the number of inquests held by him
during the month last past before said report, with
a full description, as far as may be, of the persons
who are the subjects of such inquests, their sex, age,.
color and nationality, the cause and mode of then-
death, and such other particulars as may be neces-
sary to their identification in case of strangers and
unknown persons; and each of said coroners shall
also, immediately after holding an inquest, deposit in
some bank in Baltimore city, subject to the order of
the Judges of the Orphans' Court of said city, all
property, money and other effects found upon the
person of those over whom he shall hold inquest as
hereinbefore provided.
SEC. 2. And be if enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved February 21, 1872.
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