414 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

101. Any public officer of Baltimore city or Baltimore
county having charge of or control over the bodies of de-
ceased 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 being 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 given by him to be 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 of the deceased during 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 and county having charge of or control over the bodies
of the deceased 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 this section shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less
than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each and
every offense.

102. Every physician or surgeon, before receiving any
such dead body, shall give to the proper authorities a suffi-
cient bond that such body shall be used only for the promo-
tion of medical science within the State; and whosoever shall
use such body for any other purpose, or shall remove the same
beyond the limits of this State, and whosoever shall sell or
buy such body, or in any way traffic in the same, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction,
be imprisoned for a term not exceeding five years at hard
labor in the county jail.

103. The judges of the Circuit Court for said county
shall allow to the crier of said court such compensation as