tort to the person whose name was so used without such consent, for all damages thereby sustained by such person.

Acts of 1894, 409, § 7.

in certain cases.

The superior court, upon petition of either of the parties Notice may be cancelled by alleged to intend marriage in a notice of intention of superior court marriage, given without the consent of both the parties therein alleged to intend marriage, and not followed by a marriage between said parties, may, upon such notice as said court may order and after a hearing upon such petition, adjudge that such notice of intention of marriage be cancelled and expunged from the records of the city or town in which the same was recorded.

Acts of 1894, 409, § 8.

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act Penalty. shall, upon conviction thereof within one year after such violation, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail or in the house of correction for not more than one year, or both.

RETURNS OF DIVORCES.

Acts of 1882, 194, § 1.

The clerks of courts for the several counties, and of the supreme judicial court for the county of Suffolk, shall, annually, during the month of February, make returns to the secretary of the Commonwealth in relation to libels for divorce in their respective counties for the calendar year next preceding. Such returns shall specify the following details the number of libels pending at the beginning of the year; the number of libels filed within the year; the number of divorces granted; the number of divorces refused; the number of libels contested; the number of libels uncontested; the alleged cause for divorce in each case; the sex of the libellant and the length of time the parties have been married; and the number of cases in which notice has been given to the district-attorney for prosecution under section forty-four of chapter one hundred and forty-six of the Public Statutes, and the criminal offence for which divorce has been granted in such cases.

Secretary to

furnish blanks.

Secretary to

prepare an abstract and publish in registration

report.

Acts of 1882, 194, § 2.

The secretary shall furnish the said clerks of courts with suitable blank forms for the returns provided for in the preceding section.

Acts of 1882, 194, § 3.

The secretary shall annually prepare from said returns full and complete abstracts and tabular statements of the facts relating to divorces for each county, and embody such abstracts and statements, with necessary analyses, in the annual reports to the legislature relating to the registry of births, deaths and marriages.

THE INQUEST LAWS.

[The following code supersedes the coroner laws, which were repealed in 1877, abolishing the office of coroner.]

DUTIES OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS.

P. S., 26, § 1.

of medical

The governor shall nominate and by and with the ad- Appointment vice and consent of the council shall appoint, in each examiners. county, able and discreet men, learned in the science of medicine, to be medical examiners in such county; and every such nomination shall be made at least seven days prior to the appointment.

P. S., 26, § 2.

Section 2 defines the limits of the districts occupied by the medical examiners. The length of the section forbids its insertion here. The names of the existing medical examiners, and of the cities and towns which comprise their districts, may be found in the Legislative Manuals of each year, and in Brown's Medical Register of New England.

P. S., 26, § 3.

examiner for

The governor may also in like manner nominate and Associate appoint an associate medical examiner for the county of Suffolk. Suffolk, who shall, at the request of either of the medical examiners for said county, perform all the duties and exercise all the powers of a medical examiner in said county, but he shall not in any year be so required to serve for more than one month at the request of either of said medical examiners.

Term of office and removal.

Official bonds, etc.

Discharge of surety on bond.

Breach of condition of bond.

Salaries and

fees of medical examiners.

P. S., 26, § 4.

Said medical examiners and associate medical examiner shall hold their offices for a term of seven years from the time of their respective appointments, but shall be liable to removal from office by the governor and council at any time for cause shown.

P. S., 26, § 5.

Each medical examiner and the associate medical examiner for Suffolk county shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, be sworn, and give bond to the treasurer of the county, with sureties in the sum of five thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of such duties. If he fails to give such bond for thirty days after his appointment, such appointment shall be void.

Pub. Stats., chap. 26, sect. 6, was repealed by 1893, 257, § 3.

P. S., 26, § 7.

A surety on any such bond, or his heirs, executors, or administrators, may petition the superior court, for the county for which the officer who gave it was appointed, to be discharged from such bond, and like proceedings shall thereupon be had as in case of a similar petition by a surety on a sheriff's official bond.

P. S., 26, § 8.

If the condition of any such bond is broken to the injury of any person, the officer who gave it shall be liable to removal from his office and be subject to like penalties as sheriffs in like cases, and actions may be brought upon such bonds in like manner as upon the official bonds of sheriffs.

P. S., 26, § 9.

Acts of 1885, 379, § 1.

Acts of 1890, 213.

Acts of 1892, 286, § 1.

In the county of Suffolk each medical examiner shall receive from the treasurer of the county, in full for all services performed by him, a salary of four thousand

dollars a year, and the associate medical examiner a salary of six hundred and sixty-six dollars; but if the said associate medical examiner serves in any year more than two months, at the request of either medical examiner, he shall, for such service in excess of two months, be paid at the same rate as such medical examiner, and such compensation shall be deducted from the salary of the medical examiner in whose stead he serves. The medical examiners in other counties shall receive fees as follows: For a view without an autopsy, five dollars; for a view and autopsy, thirty dollars; and for travel, at the rate of ten cents a mile to and from the place of view.

P. S., 26, § 10.

cal examiners.

Medical examiners shall make examination as herein- Duties of medi. after provided, upon the view of the dead bodies of such persons only as are supposed to have come to their death by violence.

P. S., 26, § 11.

When a medical examiner has notice that there has When an au. topsy shall be been found, or is lying within his county, the dead body made. of a person who is supposed to have come to his death by violence, he shall forthwith repair to the place where such body lies, and take charge of the same; and if, on view thereof and personal inquiry into the cause and manner of the death, he deems a further examination necessary, he shall, upon being thereto authorized in writing by the district attorney, mayor or selectmen of the district, city, or town where such body lies, make an autopsy in the presence of two or more discreet persons, whose attendance he may compel by subpoena if necessary, and shall then and there carefully reduce or cause to be reduced to writing every fact and circumstance tending to show the condition of the body and the cause and manner of death, together with the names and addresses of said witnesses, which record he shall subscribe. Before making such autopsy he shall call the attention of the witnesses to the position and appearance of the body. See Commonwealth v. Dunan, 128 Mass. 422. Commonwealth v. Taylor, 132 Mass. 261.