ART. 3. ] CORONERS, INQUESTS AND DEAD BODIES. 195

P. L. L., (1860, ) art. 3, sec. 93.

61. The county commissioners may allow to any coroner, over
and above the fees herein allowed, such additional sum for any
business done by him as they may think proper.

Ibid. sec. 94.

62. No juror summoned on a coroner's inquest in said county
shall receive any compensation.

1863, ch. 163.

63. Any public officer of Baltimore county or Baltimore city,
laving charge over the bodies of deceased persons, required to
be buried at the public expense, shall give permission to any
physician or surgeon of said county or city, 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

the deceased person, during his or her last sickness, of his or her

own accord, shall request to be buried, or if any person claiming

to be, and satisfying the proper authorities that he is, of kindred
to the deceased, 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.

1882, ch. 163.

64. 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 misdemeanor,
and shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for a term not exceeding
five years at hard labor in the county jail.