HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 805

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That Sections 81, 82, 83,
84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 and 91 of Article 1, title "Allegany
County", sub-title "Coroners", Section 206 of Article 2, title
"Anne Arundel County", sub-title "Coroners", Sections 171,
172, 173 and 174 of Article 3, title "Baltimore County", sub-
title "Coroners", Sections 93 and 94 of Article 11, title "Fred-
erick County", sub-title "Coroners", and Sections 188, 189,
190, 191 and 192 of Article 16, title "Montgomery County",
sub-title "Coroners", of the Code of Public Local Laws, be and
the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That a new Article be
and the same is hereby added to the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1924 Edition), said new Article to be known as Article
22, title "Post Mortem Examiners", and to follow immediately
after Article 21 of said Code, and to consist of eight sections
to read as follows:

1. The Department of Post Mortem Examiners is hereby
created and established. The head of said Department shall
be a Commission, consisting of the Professor of Pathology of
the University of Maryland, the Professor of Pathology of the
Johns Hopkins University, the Director of Health of the State
of Maryland, the Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City
and the Attorney General of Maryland. The members of
said Commission shall serve without compensation and shall
select one of its members as Chairman, and one as Vice-Chair-
man, who shall act as Chairman in the absence or inability
of the Chairman.

2. The said Commission is hereby authorized and directed
to appoint three medical examiners, one to be known as Chief
Medical Examiner, at an annual salary of $6, 500, and the
other two as Assistant Medical Examiners, at an annual
salary of $5, 000 each. The Chief Medical Examiner and the
Assistant Medical Examiners shall be licensed Doctors of
Medicine, and shall have had at least two years post-graduate
training in pathology. The said Commission shall also ap-
point such clerks and other employees as may be necessary for
the proper administration of the Department and at such com-
pensation as may be provided in the Ordinance of Estimates
of Baltimore City and the salaries of said Examiners shall be
included in the Ordinance of Estimates each year. The Clerks
and employees shall be appointed in accordance with the pro-
visions of Sections 268 to 284, inclusive, of the Baltimore City
Charter (1938 Edition), known as the Merit System.

3. The said Commission is hereby authorized to appoint a
Deputy Medical Examiner, who shall be a licensed Doctor of