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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 163.

AN ACT to add additional sections to the Code of Public Local

Laws of Maryland, title "Frederick County," under a new

sub-title to be designated "Coroners and Justices of the

Peace," regulating certain duties of coroners and justices

of the peace, acting as coroners for Frederick County; also

regulating fees of physicians in said county attending coro-

ners' inquests.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Coroners and

land, That additional sections be added to the Code of Public

justices of
the peace.

Local Laws of Maryland, title "Frederick County." under a

new sub-title to be designated ''Coroners and Justices of the

Peace," certain additional sections to be known as Section I

and 2, which shall read as follows :

i. The coroners or any justice of the peace, acting as coro-

Duties of same

ners in and for Frederick County, shall, upon the decease of

in certain
cases.

any person in said county, where such deceased person came

to his or her death by accident or mischance, and where there

are such circumstances attending the death or surrounding

the case as to amount to a strong probability or reasonable be-

lief that the deceased came to his or her death by felony ; and

in all such cases it shall be the duty of said coroner or any

justice of the peace acting as coroner to immediately summon

some physician practicing within the limits of said Frederick

County, or in any city therein, where the decease of such

person may occur, to make due examination of the deceased

and the cause of his or her death, for which examination the

Physician's
fees.

said physician so summoned shall be paid the sum of five dol-

lars by the Board of County Commissioners for said Fred-

erick County, and upon the advice or direction of such phy-

sician, given in writing under his hand to such acting coroner,

for the holding of an inquest over the body of such deceased

person, thereupon such written advice and direction given by

the physician aforesaid, and not before, it shall be the duty of

such acting coroner to summon or hold a jury of inquest over

To summon a
jury of in-

the body of such deceased person, as prescribed by the Code

quest.

of Public General Laws of Maryland, in such cases made and

provided, wherein the same do not conflict with this Act.