806 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 369

Medicine, for each county in the State; provided, however,
that an additional Deputy Medical Examiner or Examiners
may be appointed for any county whenever, in its discretion,
the said Commission shall deem it necessary or desirable to
do so. The Deputy Medical Examiners shall be appointed
from a list containing the names of not less than two qualified
persons submitted by the Medical Societies of the respective
counties; provided, however, that if there be no Medical So-
ciety in any county, or if the Medical Society of any county
fails or refuses to submit such list of names, the said Com-
mission shall proceed to appoint a Deputy Medical Examiner,
or Examiners, for said county. Each Deputy Medical Exam-
iner shall receive as compensation $15. 00 for each death he
investigates, in accordance with the provisions of this Article;
such Deputy Medical Examiner when it becomes necessary,
shall have the power to deputize any other physician in the
County to act as Deputy Medical Examiner in his place and
stead.

4. It shall be the duty of the Chief Medical Examiner, the
Assistant Medical Examiners and the Deputy Medical Exam-
iners to attend to all the medical functions now devolving
upon the coroners and post mortem physicians in Baltimore
City, or upon coroners or Justices of the Peace, acting as
Coroners, in the several counties of the State, and to perform
all the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this
Article.

The office of said Chief Medical Examiner, and the Assistant
Medical Examiners, shall be maintained in such building in
Baltimore City as may be provided by the City of Balti-
more, and the said Commission shall see that proper
equipment is provided for the use of said Chief Medical
Examiner and Assistant Medical Examiners, or arrange for the
use of the Laboratory and other equipment of the State De-
partment of Health, the Health Department of Baltimore City,
the State Police Department and the Police Department of
Baltimore City. It shall be the duty of the Chief Medical
Examiner, or an Assistant Medical Examiner, to be on call at
all times for the performance of the duties set forth in this
Article.

5. When any person shall die in Baltimore City, or in any
County of the State, as a result of violence, or by suicide, or
by casualty, or suddenly when in apparent health or when
unattended by a physician, or in any suspicious or unusual
manner, it shall be the duty of the police or sheriff immedi-
ately to notify the Chief Medical Examiner and Assistant
Medical Examiner, or a Deputy Medical; Examiner, as the