THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                       43

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 3 and 7 of Article 22 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1951 Edition), title "Post Mortem Examiners", be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

3. The said Commission is hereby authorized to appoint a Deputy
Medical Examiner, who shall be a licensed Doctor of 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
Society in any county, or if the Medical Society of any county fails
or refuses to submit such list of names, the said Commission shall
proceed to appoint a Deputy Medical Examiner, or Examiners, for
said county. Each Deputy Medical Examiner shall receive as com-
pensation not less than $15. 00 and not more than $25. 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.

7. If the cause of such death shall be established beyond a reason-
able doubt, such Medical Examiner shall so report and file in his
office within thirty days after his notification of such death. If,
however, in the opinion of such Medical Examiner, an autopsy is
necessary, the same shall be performed by the Chief Medical Exam-
iner, an Assistant Medical Examiner or by such competent path-
ologists as may be authorized by the Chief Medical Examiner. A
detailed description of the findings written during the progress of
such autopsy, and the conclusions drawn therefrom, shall thereupon
be filed in the office of the Chief Medical Examiner, or in the office
of the Deputy Medical Examiner in the county where the death
occurred. A copy of the findings and conclusions as to the autopsies
performed in the several counties shall also be filed in the office of
the Chief Medical Examiner. Provided, however, it shall be the
duty of any Deputy Medical Examiner to call upon the Chief Medical
Examiner or an Assistant Medical Examiner, or other person author-
ized and designated by the Chief Medical Examiner, to make an
examination or perform an autopsy whenever he deems it necessary
or desirable, and it shall be the duty of said Chief Medical Examiner
or Assistant Medical Examiner to [go to the county for that purpose]
perform such examination, except in such cases as a competent
pathologist is so authorized by the Chief Medical Examiner to per-
form such autopsy. [In every case where an autopsy is performed
in any county by the Chief Medical Examiner or Assistant Medical
Examiner, the County Commissioners of such county shall pay to
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City Twenty-five Dollars
($25. 00) and shall pay to said Chief Medical Examiner or Assistant
Medical Examiner, as the case may be, his necessary traveling
expenses. ] The necessary expenses for transportation of a body for
autopsy by the Chief or an Assistant Medical Examiner or an author-
ized pathologist and such reasonable fee payable to the authorized