1116 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 439

have exclusive jurisdiction in the investigation of all deaths
resulting from automobile accidents.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be, and the same is hereby
added to Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land (1927 Edition), title "City of Baltimore, " sub-title "Cor-
oners, Inquests and Dead Bodies, " said new section to follow
Section 295 of said Article, to be known as Section 295A, and
to read as follows:

295A. In addition to the coroners provided for in Sec-
tions 294 and 295 of this Article, the Governor shall appoint
an additional coroner for the City of Baltimore, to be known
as a "Coroner at Large, " who shall be vested with exclusive
jurisdiction in the investigation of all deaths resulting from
automobile accidents. The said Coroner at Large shall receive
the same compensation as is described in Sections 294 and 295
for other coroners for said City.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 439.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 37
of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (Edition
of 1924).

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 37 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (Edition of 1924) be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

37. Each stockholder shall be entitled to a certificate which
shall be signed by the president or a vice-president and by the
secretary or an assistant secretary or the treasurer or an as-
sistant treasurer of the corporation and sealed with its seal,
which shall certify the number of shares owned by him in such
corporation. A certificate shall be deemed to be so signed and
sealed whether the signatures be manual or facsimile signatures
and whether the seal be a facsimile seal or any other form of
seal; this sentence shall not be construed as implying that in
the absence of this sentence the requirements of the preceding