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Chapter 163.
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AN ACT to provide for the prosecution of the
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study of anatomy in the State of Maryland.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
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bly of Maryland, That any public officer of Balti-
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more city and county of Baltimore, having charge
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Give permis-
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thereof or control over the same, shall give permission
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sion.
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to any physician or surgeon of the same city and
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county, upon his request made therefor, to take the
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bodies of deceased persons, within forty-eight hours
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after death, required to be buried at the public ex-
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pense, to be by him used within the State for the
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advancement of medical science, preference being
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given to medical schools, public and private, and
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said bodies to be distributed to and among the same
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equitably, the number assigned to each being pro-
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portioned to that of its students; provided, however,
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that if the deceased person, during his or her last
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sickness, of his or her own accord, shall request to
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Revest to be
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be buried, or if any person "claiming to be, and sat-
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buried.
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isfying the proper authorities that he is of kindred
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to the deceased, shall ask to have the body for burial,
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it shall be surrendered for interment; or if such de-
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ceased person was a stranger or traveler, who died
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suddenly, the body shall be buried, and not handed
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over as aforesaid.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every physician
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or surgeon, before receiving any such dead body,
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Give bond.
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shall give to the proper authorities a sufficient bond
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that each body shall be used only for the promotion
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of medical science within the State; and whosoever
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shall use such body or bodies for any other purpose,
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or shall remove the same beyond the limits of this
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State, and whosoever shall sell or buy such body or
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