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 é 174 FIFTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 638. 1902. ’~**°’*°“°'“ °°¤· information as said board mav des' ate. But no such bod shall be iiiidigg www of delivered if the deceased person, dldgiiing his last illness, without suggestion or solicitation, requested to be buried or cremated; or 1f within the time specified above and before the actual deliver thereof any person claiming to be and satisfying the officer in charge of such body that he is of kindred or is related by marriage to the deceased shall claim the said body for burial or cremation, or request in writing that it be buried at public expense; or if within the time specified above and before actual delivery any person claiming to be and satisfying the officer in charge of such body that he is a friend of the deceased arranges to have the same properly buried or cremated without expense to the District; or if the deceased person was a trav- · eler who died suddenly; but in any such case said body shall be buried _ _ or delivered to said applicant for burial. b°§};‘{;}’,‘{,;'§0F;,‘g‘ Sec. 3. That the said anatomical board may receive the bodies reported to it as aforesaid, and may distribute and deliver such as are received among and to such of the schools and boards entitled thereto as request in writing to receive the same, except as otherwise expressly ueimP`ii»iii°n°i¤.s`5i°3'.li directed in this Act. Each such school and board shall receive annu- °°¤°°*’· ally, as nearly as may be practicable, such proportion of the entire number of bodies distributed as the number of students enrolled and in regular attendance at such school, and the number of candidates appearing for examination before such board, respectively, engaged bona fide at such school, or examined by said board in dissecting. and operative surgery on the cadaver, bears to the total number of students so enrolled in attendance, and engaged, and of persons so examined, in the District of Columbia. The secretary, dean, or other proper officer of each such schools and board shall report to said anatomical board the names of all such students in attendance at such school or persons examined by said board, as the case may be, at such times and ,.,}j‘{§‘?j_ §§._‘°““‘ ‘° in such form as said board may direct. All bodies shall be delivered among such schools and boards in regular order so as to maintain, as · nearly as may be practicable, an equitable allotment at all times; and bodies assiglned to any school or board in regular order and refused by such so ool or board without sulhcient cause shall be charged against the quota of such school or board in such manner as not to prejudice any other school or board. But no body shall be delivered to any school or board unless within not less than twenty-four hours prior to such delivery notice of the death has been given by said anatomical board to the nearest known kinsman, relative by marria e, or friend of the deceased, or if none such be known. published ly said anatomical board at least once in a daily newspaper ublished in the city of \Vashington, in the District of Columbia. The notice required by this section shall be deemed to have been given if served in writing on the pe-rson to be notiticd, or if left at his usual place of residence with some adult person residing therein, or a member of the family of such person. Said board shal take receipts by name. or. if the name be unknown, by a descri tion, for each body delivered; all receipts so obtained by said board slhall be properly tiled by it. B°¤•*· Sec. 4. That no school except the medical schools of the United States Army and Navy shall receive any body under the provisions of this Act until said school has given bond to the District of Columbia, and the Board of Commissioners of said District has approved such bond, which said bond shall be in the penal sum of two hundred dollars and conditioned that all bodies which said school shall receive shall be used in said District and only for the promotion of the science and art MH umd ofsmedicinrptgnd ofhdsiptistry. d f h d m °¤¤“—P* mc. 5. t it s a be the ut o eac an evei r officer, a ent, iiiuighimmm oi C0- and employee of every school am; board receiving bvbdies undeg the provisions of this Act to see that such bodies are used in the District