ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1353

of Baltimore; and it is further provided, that whenever the
police districts of the City of Baltimore shall be increased in
number by the order of the Police Commissioner of Baltimore
City, the Governor shall appoint an additional coroner for
each of the police districts so created; provided, that before
entering upon the duties of their office, the persons appointed
shall take the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution of
the State of Maryland, for office-holders; and further, they
shall give bond to the said State of Maryland, with security
to be approved by the Judge of the Superior Court of Balti-
more City, in the penalty of two thousand dollars each, con-
ditioned for the faithful performance of their duties, as now
prescribed by law, or which shall hereafter be prescribed.

295. In addition to the coroners provided for in the pre-
ceding section the Governor shall appoint one more coroner for
the "City of Baltimore, " to be known as the "Coroner at
Large" for the City, whose duty it shall be to act in the place
of any of the coroners who shall have been assigned to the
various police districts of said city who may have been pre-
vented by illness or enforced absence from attending to his
duties; the said coroner at large shall receive the same com-
pensation as is prescribed in the preceding section for other
coroners for said city. The coroners provided for in the pre-
ceding section shall be assigned to such subdivision or district
of the City of Baltimore as the Governor may direct.

295A. In addition to the coroners provided for in Sections
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 juris-
diction in the investigation of all* deaths resulting from auto-
mobile accidents.

It shall be the duty of the Baltimore City Police to report
all motor vehicle fatalities to said coroner and the Police
Commissioner shall assign to said coroner a competent and
efficient clerk to act as secretary and to take charge of the
aforesaid reports during the coroner's absence.

The said Coroner at Large shall receive an annual salary of
one thousand five hundred dollars, payable quarterly by the
City Register.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
. effect January 1, 1932.

Approved April 17, 1931.