ART. 22] CORONERS. 523

ARTICLE XXII.

CORONERS.

1. Shall give bond; penalty; condition. 2. Return of process by. 3. When not to hold inquest. 4. Attendance of a physician at inquest.

5. Penalty for refusal of physician to attend, e. Physician's fee. 7. Burial of deceased. S. When, shall act in place of sheriff.

1904, art. 22, sec. 1. 1888, art 22, sec. 1. 1860, art. 25, aec. 1.
1824, ch 145, sec. 1.

1. Every coroner, before he acts as such, shall, within sixty day
after his appointment, and in each year thereafter, give bond to the
State of Maryland, with securities approved by the judges of the
orphans' court, or some of them, in the penalty of three thousand dollars,
with a condition that he will well and truly execute the office of coroner
in all things thereunto belonging, and shall also well and faithfully
execute and return all writs or other process to him directed; and shall
also pay and deliver to 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 execu-
tion thereof, he recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court
for the county in which he is coroner, or in the office of the clerk of
the superior court of Baltimore city, if he is coroner in said city.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888, art. 22, sec. 2. 1860, art. 25, sec. 2. 1813, ch. 102. 1823, ch. 180.
1829, ch. 39. 1840, ch. 216. 1842, ch. 272. 1845, ch. 123.

2. The provisions of this code in relation to the return of proces:-
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.

As to the fees of coroners and coroner's Jurors, see art. 36, sections 16 and 17.
As to the lunacy commission acting as coroner, see art. 59, sec. 34.
This article has been repealed as to Allegany county and sections enacted in
lieu thereof—see acts of 1908, ch. 475, and also 1910, ch. 37 (p. 483).