Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Md. Code, art. 22, secs. 3, 4).
Shall bury the body when necessary at public expense (Md. Code, art. 22, sec. 7).
Removal, etc., from graveyard, etc. (except potter’s field), of a body is a misdemeanor (Md. Code, art. 27, secs. 133, 134).
Massachusetts.
Medical examiners shall hold inquest, etc. (Pub. Stat., ch. 26, secs. 10, 11).
And shall deliver it to relatives or friends, or if no one claims it, to overseer of poor etc., for burial (Laws, 1887, ch. 310).
Body shall not be buried in city or town or removed therefrom without a permit (Laws, 1888, ch. 306).
Body of one dying of infectious disease shall not be transported without permit, and only in a sealed case (Laws, 1883, ch. 124, sec. 2).
Body shall not be cremated without permit and inquest by medical examiner, or within forty-eight hours after death, unless death was occasioned by contagious disease (Laws, 1885, ch. 265, sec. 4).