term of ninety-nine years, as fully as if the lease so renewed had been originally made for a length of time equivalent to such renewal term, added to the original term; provided, that no such decree shall bind any person not a party to said suit. A copy of such decree shall be recorded among the land records of the county or city where the lands demised in such

leases lie.

1888, art. 21, sec. 87. 1886, ch. 154.

91. Whenever the lessee or lessees named in any lease or sub-lease containing a covenant for perpetual renewal, or any person or persons claiming under such lessee or lessees, shall have retained or shall retain uninterrupted possession of the demised premises, or any part thereof, for twelve months after the expiration of such lease or sub-lease, it shall be conclusively presumed in reference to the whole or any part or parts of said demised premises, whereof possession shall have been retained as aforesaid, and in favor of said lessee, lessees, or of the person or persons claiming under such lessee or lessees, that a new lease or sub-lease of the whole of said demised premises was executed prior to the expiration of said lease or sub-lease by the lessor or lessors therein named, or by the person or persons rightfully claiming under such lessor or lessors to the said lessee or lessees, or to the person or persons rightfully claiming under such lessee or lessees, for such additional term, under such rent and upon such covenants, conditions and stipulations as were provided in said lease or sub-lease.

Ibid. sec. 88. 1892, ch. 684.

92. All devises, gifts, grants or conveyances of land in this State, binding on any street or highway, or when any street or highway shall be one or more of the lines thereof, shall be construed to pass to the devisee, donee, or grantee therein, all the right, title and interest of the devisor, donor or grantor of the said land, to the centre of the street or highway on which the same is located or binding as aforesaid, unless the devisor, donor or grantor shall in express terms in the writing by which the devise, gift or conveyance is made reserve to himself all the right, title and interest to the said street or highway. Rieman v. Balto. Belt R. R. Co., 81 Md., 79.

1888, art. 22, sec. 1. 1860, art. 25, sec. 1. 1824, ch. 145, sec. 1. 1. Every coroner, before he acts as such, shall, within sixty days after his appointment, and in each year thereafter, give bond to the State of Maryland, with securities approved by the judges of the orphans' court, or some of them, in the penalty of three thousand dollars, with a condition that he will well and truly execute the office of coroner in all things thereunto belonging, and shall also well and faithfully execute and return all writs or other process to him directed; and shall also pay and deliver to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, all sums of money, all goods and chattels by him levied, seized or taken agreeably to the directions of the writ or other process under which the same shall have been levied, seized or taken; and shall also keep and detain in safe custody all and every person committed to his custody or by him taken in execution, or who shall be committed for the want of bail, without suffering them to escape or depart from his custody, and shall also satisfy and pay all judgments which shall be rendered against him as coroner, and shall also well and truly execute and perform the several duties required of or imposed upon him by the laws of this State; and the said bond shall, immediately after the execution thereof, be recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for the county in which he is coroner, or in the office of the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, if he is coroner in said city.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1860, art. 25. sec. 2. 1813, ch. 102. 1823, ch. 180. 1829, ch. 39. 1840, ch. 216. 1842, ch. 272. 1845, ch. 123.

2. The provisions of this code in relation to the return of process in the hands of a sheriff, upon his death or removal, shall apply to process in the hands of a coroner upon the happening of the like event.

1888, art. 22, sec. 3. 1860, art. 25, sec. 3. 1831, ch. 250, sec. 1. 3. No coroner shall summon or hold any jury of inquest over the body of any deceased person where it is known that the deceased came to his death by accident, mischance or in any other manner, except where the said person died in jail, or where there are such circumstances attending the death or case as to amount to a strong probability or reasonable belief that the deceased came to his death by felony.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1860, art. 25, sec. 4. 1846, ch. 168, sec. 1.

4. Whenever a jury shall be convened by a coroner or justice of the peace acting as coroner, on the body of any person found dead, or supposed to have died from violence, within this State, whereon any marks of violence shall appear, the jurors after being sworn, and also the coroner or justice, may require the attendance of some physician practising within the county or city where such jury shall meet, to inform himself, by due examination of the deceased, of the cause of his death, and to testify and give evidence before the said jury and coroner, or justice, in the premises.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1860, art. 25, sec. 5.1846, ch. 168, sec. 2.

5. If any physician summoned to testify on a coroner's inquest shall neglect or refuse to attend or to make the examination required by the preceding section, or to give evidence as aforesaid, he may be fined as any other witness.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1860, art. 25, sec. 6. 1846, ch. 168, sec. 3.

6. The said coroner or justice, in the account of expenses rendered to the county commissioners, or mayor and city council, for holding such inquest, shall include such sum for the said physician as the said coroner, or justice, and jurors, shall deem just, not less than five or more than ten dollars, which sum shall, with the other expenses of the inquest, be paid by the county or city.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1860, art. 25, sec. 7. 1831, ch. 250, sec. 2.

7. Whenever it shall be necessary for a coroner to bury any deceased person he shall provide a coffin and decently bury him; and the county commissioners of the county where the persons shall have been found, or the mayor and city council of Baltimore, if he shall have been found in said city, shall

make such allowance to said coroner as they may deem just and reasonable therefor, to be levied and paid as other county or city charges.

1888, art. 22, sec. 8. 1860, art. 25, sec. 8. 1785, ch. 72, secs. 23, 24. 1794, ch. 54, sec. 5. 1797, ch. 95.

8. In all cases where the sheriff is interested, or nearly related to any of the parties, or otherwise disqualified to act, all process shall be issued to the coroner, if there be one in the county or city qualified to act in such case, who shall perform all the duties of such disqualified sheriff, and be subject to the same liabilities and be proceeded against in the same manner, and shall have the same rights and remedies.

ARTICLE XXIII.

CORPORATIONS.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

1. How to acknowledge deeds.

2. Banking privileges not to be exercised unless expressly granted.

3. Majority to govern.

4. Certified copy of by-laws to be prima facie evidence.

5. Full records of all transactions to be kept.

6. General meetings; how to be called.

7. Removal of president or direct

ors.

8. Corporation officers to give notice of intention to canvass.

9. Oath of stockholders offering to vote.

10. Vote of stock held by a corporation.

11. Vote by proxy to be made under

oath.

12. Oath of director of bank.

13. Pledgor of stock may vote, when.

Provisions for the Formation of
Corporations.

14. For what purposes corporations
may be formed.

15. Class 1. Educational, benevo

lent, scientific, religious, etc. Power to hold property. Proviso.

16. Class 2. Mechanics' institutes, hotels, agricultural societies, fruit packing, etc. Proviso.

17. Class 2A. Appropriation for county agricultural fair associations.

2B. Any county subscribing the required amount entitled to benefit of these provisions.

2c. Who not entitled to the benefit of these provisions.