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by the said City or County, shall notify the chairman of the Anatomy
Board, said board being composed of a demonstrator of anatomy from
each medical school in the Sta-te, of the existence and possession of such
bodies, and shall give permission to said Anatomy Board, through its
chairman, or to any physician or surgeon of the State of Maryland upon
his request made therefor, to take such bodies within forty-eight hours
after death, to be by him used within the State for the advancement of
medical science, preference being given to medical schools, public and
private; and said bodies shall be distributed to and among the same

equitably, the number assigned to each being proportioned to that of its
students; provided, however, that if any person claiming to be and satis-
fying the proper authorities that he is, of kindred to the deceased, or that
he was a friend to deceased during his life, shall ask to have the body for
burial, it shall be surrendered for interment; or if such deceased person
was a stranger or traveler who died suddenly, the body shall be buried
and not handed over as aforesaid. Any public officer of Baltimore City
or County having charge of or control over the bodies of the deceased
persons required to be buried at the public expense or at the expense of

-any institution supported by said city or county, who shall neglect or
refuse to comply with the requirements of this section, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be fined not less than fifty nor
more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense.

1S82, ch. 113. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 154.

299. Every physician or surgeon, before receiving any such dead body
shall give to the proper authorities a sufficient bond that such body shall
be used only for the promotion of medical science within the State; and
whosoever shall use such body for any other purpose, or shall remove the
same beyond the limits of this State, and whosoever shall sell or buy such
body, or in any way traffic in the same, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for a term not exceed-
ing five years at hard labor in the City Jail.

COURTS.

SUPERIOR COURT, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, AND BALTIMORE

CITY COURT.

1870, ch. 177. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 155.

300. The Judge before whom any case may be tried in either the
Baltimore City Court, the Superior Court of Baltimore City, or in the

Court of Common Pleas, shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and

determine, and the said judge shall hear and determine, all motions for
a new trial where such motions arise, either on questions of fact or for

misdirection upon any matters of law, and all motions in arrest of judg-
ment, or upon any matters of law, determined by the said judge; and
all such motions shall be heard and determined within thirty days after

they are made.