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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 execution thereof,

be 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.

P. G. L., (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
process 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

Ibid sec. 3. 1831, ch. 250, sec. 1.

3. No coroner shall summon or hold any jury of inquest over
the body of any deceased perse n where it is known that the
deceased came to his death by accident, mischance, or in any
other manner, except where the said person died in jail, or where
there are such circumstances attending the death or case as to
amount to a strong probability or reasonable belief that the
deceased came to his death by felony.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1846, ch. 168, sec. 1.

4. Whenever a jury shall be convened by a coroner, or justice
of the peace acting as coroner, on the body of any person found
dead, or supposed to have died from violence, within this State,
whereon any marks of violence shall appear, the jurors after being
sworn, and also the coroner or justice, may require the attendance
of some physician practising within the county or city where such
jury shall meet, to inform himself, by due examination of the de-
ceased, of the cause of his death, and to testify and give evidence,
before the said jury and coroner, or justice, in the premises.