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or persons claiming under such lessee or lessees, shall have retained
or shall retain uninterrupted possession of the demised premises,
or any part thereof, for twelve months after the expiration of such
lease or sub-lease, it shall be conclusively presumed in reference
to the whole or any part or parts of said demised premises, whereof
possession shall have been retained as aforesaid, and in favor of
said lessee, lessees, or of the person or persons claiming under
such lessee or lessees, that a new lease or sub-lease of the whole of
said demised premises was executed prior to the expiration of said
lease or sub-lease by the lessor or lessors therein named, or by the
person or persons rightfully claiming under such lessor or lessors
to the said lessee or lessees, or to the person or persons rightfully
claiming under such lessee or lessees, for such additional term,
under such rent and upon such covenants, conditions and stipula-
tions as were provided in said lease or sub-lease.

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 in- quest.

5. Penalty for refusal of physician to attend, 6 Physician's fee 7 Burial of deceased. 8 When, shall act in place of sheriff.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 25, sec. 1. 1824, ch. 145, sec. 1.
1. Every coroner before he acts as such, shall, within sixty
days 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 com-
mitted to his custody or by him taken in execution, or who shall