Note 526 — POWERS AND DUTIES OF CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS.

Allegany County v. Watts, 3 Barr (Pa.), 462; Van Hoevenbergh v. Hasbrouck, 45 Barb. (N. Y.), 197. The New York legislature has made provision making the physician’s services in such a case a charge against the county and the physician must look to the county for his pay. Cosford v. Board of Supervisors, 38 N. Y. St. Rep., 964; 15 N. Y. Supp., 680. In Pennsylvania a physician or surgeon, employed by the coroner to make a post-mortem examination, may recover from the county a reasonable compensation for his services; and the county commissioners have no power to appoint a surgeon to perform such services, so as to preclude the coroner from selecting a proper person, in the exercise of his discretion. County of Allegany v. Shaw, 34 Pa. St., 301. It has been held that the authority of a coroner to employ a chemist to discover whether poison caused the death of one on whose body he holds an inquest does not restrict him to the employment of a resident of the county, and that the analysis of the chemist must not be made in the county of the coroner, and that even though the latter was, by corrupt appliances of others, induced to employ a chemist, it is no defence to a suit by the chemist to recover compensation for his services. Board of Commissioners v. Jameson, 86 Ind., 154.