ART. 4.] CORONERS, INQUESTS AND DEAD BODIES. 339

1873, ch. 45.

150. Each of the four coroners shall be assigned to such sub-
division or district of the city of Baltimore as the governor may
direct; and in case of absence or illness of any coroner, he shall
deputize some competent person to attend to the duties of his
office during his absence or illness.

Ibid.

151. The coroner shall hold an inquest over every person found
dead in his district in said city when the manner and cause of
death shall not be already known as accidental, 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 coroners are author-
ized and empowered to issue their certificates to the register of
Baltimore city for the payment of such expenses as may be
necessary for the interment of any person over whom they, or
either of them, has held an inquest, and whose body is not
claimed by friends or relatives; provided, the amount of such
expenses shall not in any case exceed the sum of seven dollars.

Ibid.

152. Each of said coroners shall make a monthly report to
the police commissioners of Baltimore city, of the number of
inquests held by him during the month last past before said
report, with a full description, as far as may be, of the persons
who were the subjects of such inquests, their sex, age, color and
nationality, the cause and mode of their death, and such other
particulars as may be necessary to their identification, in case of
strangers and unknown persons; and each of said coroners shall
also, immediately after holding an inquest, deposit in some bank
of Baltimore city, subject to the order of the judges of the orphans'
court of said city, all property, money and other effects found
upon the person of those over whom he shall hold inquest, as
hereinbefore provided.

1882, ch. 113.

153. Any public officer of Baltimore city or Baltimore county,
having charge of or control over the bodies of deceased persons
required to be buried at the public expense, shall give permis-
sion to any physician or surgeon of said city or county, upon his