530 CORONERS. [ART. 22

ARTICLE XXII.

CORONERS.

1. Shall give bond; penalty; con- dition. 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.

1888, art. 22, sec. 1. 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 committed to his custody or by him taken in
execution, or who shall 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.

Ibid. sec. 2. 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.