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Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (R. L., ch. 139, sec. 1).
To bury the body at State or town expense (R. L., ch. 139, sec. 11).
Seizure of body on execution, punishable (R. L., ch. 124, sec. 26).
Removal, etc., of body unlawfully, or receiving it knowingly, or exposing, etc., body, is punishable (R. L., ch. 124, sec. 27).
Bodies may be buried and the expense recovered from the town (R. L., ch. 24, sec. 34).
If any resident request or consent that his body be delivered to a physician or surgeon for dissection, it may be so delivered, unless kindred or family connection objects (R. L., ch. 13, sec. 1).
Body of criminal dying in State prison or jail, or who was executed, may be delivered to medical college or physician, etc., for dissection, unless deceased or kindred request to be buried (R. L., ch. 13, sec. 2).
Body of person dying in the State, which is not claimed by relatives, notice having been given, shall be delivered to medical school unless ten voters of the town object to such disposition in writing (Laws, 1893, ch. 254).