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to be known as the "Coroner at Large" for said city, whose duty it shall
be to act in the place of any of the coroners who shall have been assigned
to the various police districts of said city who may have been prevented
by illness or enforced absence from attending to his, duties; the said cor-
oner at large shall receive the same compensation as is prescribed in the
preceding section for other coroners for said city. The coroners provided
for in the preceding section shall be assigned to such subdivision or dis-
trict of the City of Baltimore as the Governor may direct.

1929, ch. 438.

295A. In addition to the coroners provided for in Sections 294 and 295
of this Article, the Governor shall appoint an additional coroner for the
City of Baltimore, to be known as a "Coroner at Large," who shall be
vested with exclusive jurisdiction in the investigation of all deaths result-
ing from automobile accidents. The said Coroner at Large shall receive
the same compensation as is described in 'Sections 294 and 295 for other
coroners for said City.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 153, 154. 1872. ch. 45. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 151.

296. The Coroner shall hold an inquest over every 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 authorized and empowered to issue their
certificates to the City Register 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.

Blaney v. State, 74 Md. 153. Young v. College of Physicians, &c., 81 Md. 358.

1872, ch. 45. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 152.

297. Each of said Coroners shall make a monthly report to the Police
Commissioner of Baltimore 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 were the subject of such inquest, their
sex, age, color and nationality, the cause and mode of their death, and
such other particulars as may be necessary for 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 of 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.

1882, ch. 163. 1890, ch. 166. P. L. L. (1888). Art. 4, sec. 153.

298. Any public officer of Baltimore City or Baltimore County having
charge of or control over the bodies of deceased persons required to be
buried at the public expense or at the expense of any institution supported