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An Act to amend An act concerning inquests 1845-1847 59 (1846)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0085 and id is 1 raw text is: INNS AND TAVERNS.-INQUESTS. INNS AND TAVERNS. AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled An act to regulate inns and taverns, approved March 18, 1835. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: 1. No person, by virtue of any tavern license, shall be authorized to sell intoxicating liquors in any quantity less than one quart, nor in any quantity to be drank at the place of sale; but the county court of the proper county may grant to any tavern keeper a license to keep a dramshop, upon such applicant paying the tax, and complying with the provisions of the law concerning dram- shops. 2. This not shall not be in force or apply to the county of St. Louis. This act to take effect from its passage. Approved February 16, 1847. INQUESTS. AN ACT to nmend An act concerning inquests. 1 I. When coroner shall cauise a dead body to 3. Compensation for taking down testimony be buried, his compensation. and certifying the same. 2. One dollar may he allowed for bringing a 4. When a slave or minor, how the expenses dead body, floating in the river, to the shore, shall be paid. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: § 1. Whenever an inquest shall be held, if there he no relative or friend of the deceased, nor other person willing to bury the body, nor any person whose duty it is to attend to such burial, the coroner shall procure a cheap, plain coflin, and cause a grave to be dug, and the body to be conveyed thereto and buried. It shall be the duty of the coroner in so doing, to avoid all unnecessa- ry expense, and to render to the court an accurate statement of all money ex- pended by him for such purposes; and the county court shall make to him a reasonable allowance for his actual expenses in prOcujrng the coflin, hauling the body to the grave, digging the grave, and burying the body; and also a reason- able allowance according to the circumstances, for his own tine and services in attending to such preparations and burial. § 2. If a dead body be floating in the river, the coroner may in his discre- tion pay to some person for bringing it to the shore, a sum not exceeding one dollar, which shall also be allowed to him by the court. § 3. For taking down the testimony at an inquest, the coroner shall be al- lowed ten cents for every hundred words, and twenty-five cents for certifying the same. § 4. If an inquest be held over the body of a slave, the master of such slave shall pay the costs of the inquest and expenses of burial; and if over a minor the parent, guardian or master of the same, shall be liable for the costs and ex- penses, if there be any such person able to pay the same. If the person over whose body any inquest shall be held, shall have any estate, the costs and ex- penses of inquest and burial shall be paid out of his estate; but where there is no person liable and.able to pay such expenses, they shall be allowed by the county court out of the county treasury. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved k'ebruary 3,1847. 59

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