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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 15.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section

one hundred and forty-nine of article four of the Code of

Public Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore," sub -title

"Coroner's Inquest and Dead Bodies," and re-enacted

by chapter two hundred and seven of the act of the Gen-

eral Assembly of Maryland, passed January session eigh-

teen hundred and ninety.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, that section one hundred and forty-nine of the

Code of Public Local Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-

Repeal.

title "Corone'rs Inquest and Dead Bodies," as re-enacted

by chapter two hundred and seven of the act of the General

Assembly of Maryland, passed January session, A. D., eigh-

teen hundred and ninety, be and the same is hereby repealed

and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

149. The Governor by and with the advice and consent of

the Senate shall appoint and commission seveu competent

Coroners.

persons to act as coroners for the City of Baltimore, to

hold office during the period of two years at an annual salary

of eight hundred and fifty dollars each payable quarterly by

the registers of the city, and the said coroner's shall be

assigned to duty by the Governor, one to each of the Police

District of the City of Baltimore, and it is further provided

that whenever the Police District of the City of Baltimore

shall be increased in number by the order of the Board of

Police Commissioners of Baltimore City, the Governor shall

appoint an additional coroner for each of the additional

Police District so created ; provided that before entering

upon the duties of their office, the persons appointed coro-

ners shall take the oath of office prescribed by the Consti-

tution of the State of Maryland for office holders; and further,

they shall give bond to the said State of Maryland with

security to be approved by the Judge of the Superior Court

Penalty.

of Baltimore City in the penalty of two thousand dollars

each conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties,

as now prescribed by law, or which shall hereafter be pre-

scribed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the first Monday in May, A. D., eighteen hundred

and ninety -two.

Approved February 18th, 1892.