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or taken agreeably to the direction 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 which shall be committed for want of bail, without suffer-
ing them to escape or depart from his custody, and shall also
satisfy and pay all judgments which 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 the State; and the said bond shall immediately after the
execution thereof be recorded in the office of the clerk of the
Circuit Court for Allegany County.

SEC. 3cc. The provisions of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland 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 the coroner for Allegany county upon the hap-
pening of the like event.

SEC. 4DD. The coroner for Allegany county shall not summon
or hold any jury of inquest over the body of any deceased per-
son where it is known that the deceased came to his death by
accident, mischance, or in any other manner, except where said
person died in jail, or where there are such circumstances
attending the death or case as to amount to a strong proba-
bility or reasonable belief that the deceased came to his death
by violence or by felony.

SEC. 5EE. Whenever a jury shall be convened by the coroner
for Allegany county, or a justice of the peace acting as coro-
ner, on the body of any person found dead, or supposed to have
died from violence, within said county, whereon any marks of
violence shall appear, the jurors after being sworn, and also the
coroner or justice, may require the attendance of a physician
practicing within the said county, to inform himself, by due
examination of the deceased, of the cause of death, and to
testify and give evidence before the said jury and coroner, or
justice, in the premises, but no physician shall be required to
appear and make such examination unless there be reasonable
cause to believe, from marks of violence and otherwise on the
body of the deceased, that the deceased did not come to his
death from accident or natural causes. If any physician sum-
moned on a coroner's inquest shall neglect or refuse to attend
or to make the examination required, or to give evidence as
aforesaid, he shall be fined as any other witness.

SEC. 6FF. The said coroner or justice, in the account of ex-
penses rendered to the County Commissioners for holding such
inquest, shall include such sum for said physician as said
coroner or justice and jurors shall deem just, not to exceed the