388 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

297. 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 Cor-
oners 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.

298. 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 or at the
expense of any institution supported by said City or County,
-shall notify the chairman of the Anatomy Board, said board be-
ing composed of a demonstrator of anatomy from each medical
school in the State, of the existence and possession of such
bodies, and shall give permission to said Anatomy Board,
through its chairman,or to any physician or surgeon of the State
of Maryland 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 any person claiming to be
and satisfying the proper authorities that he is, of kindred to
the deceased, or that he was a friend to deceased during his life,
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. Any public officer of Baltimore City or
County having charge of or control over the bodies of the de-
ceased persons required to be buried at the public expense or at
the expense of any institution supported by said City or County,
who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the requirements of