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CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

Deputy.

152. In case of the absence or illness of the coroner,
he shall deputise some competent person to attend to
the duties of the office during his absence or illness,
whose fees shall be directed by the coroner, out of
whose salary such fees shall be paid.

Coroner's du-
ties.

153. The coroner shall hold an inquest over any
person found dead in said city, when the manner and
cause of death shall not be already known as accidental

Jury.

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 coroner is hereby authorized and
empowered to issue his certificate to the register of Bal-
timore city for the payment of such expenses as may
be necessary for the interment of any person over whom
he has held an inquest, and whose body is not claimed

Proviso.

by friends or relatives; provided, the amount of such
expenses shall not in any case exceed the sum of seven
dollars.

Monthly re-
port.

154. The said coroner shall make a monthly report
to the police commissioners of Baltimore city of the
number of inquests held by him during the month last
passed 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 their death, and such other particu-
lars as may be necessary to their identification in case
of strangers and unknown persons; he shall also,

Deposit in
bank.

immediately after holding any inquest, deposit in some
bank in Baltimore city, subject to the order of the
judges of the orphans' court of Baltimore city, all
property, money and other effects found upon the
person of those over whom he shall hold inquests as
hereinbefore provided.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.