20 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ARTICLE XXII.

CORONERS.

' CHAPTER 475.

AN ACT to repeal Article 22 of the Code of Public General
Laws, entitled "Coroners, " also to repeal Sections 16 and
17 of Article 36 of the Code of Public General Laws, as
amended by the Acts of 1894, Chapter 309, concerning the
fees of coroners, so far as the same apply to Allegany county,
and no further, and to enact in lieu thereof sections to the
Public Local Laws, Article 1, title "Allegany County, " pro-
viding a fixed salary for the coroner for said county and
defining his duties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article 22 of the Code of Public General Laws, en-
titled "Coroners, " and Sections 16 and 17 of Article 36 of the
Code of Public General Laws, as amended and re-enacted by the
Acts of 1894, Chapter 309, be and the same are hereby repealed
so far as the same apply to Allegany county, and no further,
and that additional sections be and the same are hereby en-
acted and added to Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws
title, "Allegany County, " said additional sections to be num-
bered 1AA, 2BB, 3CC, 4DD, 5EE, 6FF, 7GG, 8HH, 9II, 10JJ, 11KK,
12LL and entitled "Coroners. "

SEC. 1AA. The Governor shall, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, appoint a citizen of Allegany county as
coroner for said county, and said coroner shall hold office for
the term of two years. The coroner in office in said county
when this Act takes effect shall serve out the term for which he
was appointed, but shall receive no greater compensation for
his services than is prescribed in this Act, and he shall be
governed by the provisions of this Act in the discharge of his
official duties.

SEC. 2BB. The coroner for Allegany county before he acts as
such shall, within twenty days after this Act takes effect, and
in each and every year thereafter, give bond to the State of
Maryland with securities to be approved by the judges of the
Orphans' Court, or some of them, in the penalty of three thou-
sand 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