Coroner to hold inquest and direct autopsy (Pen. Code, sec. 2,309 _et seq._). Person whose duty it is to bury is entitled to custody except where coroner holds it until inquest is completed (Pen. Code, sec. 495). ARKANSAS. Bodies of persons dying in alms-house, prison, house of correction, or jail shall be surrendered to a physician for dissection, etc., unless the deceased request to be buried or the body is claimed by relatives, or unless deceased died suddenly and unknown; and after such use for dissection it shall be decently buried (R. S., sec. 2,552). Removal of dead body for the purpose of dissection, or stealing, or from wantonness, or receiving same knowing it to have been unlawfully disinterred, is a misdemeanor (R. S., secs. 1,902, 1,903). Dead body can be transported out of county in which death occurred on permit of State board of health (R. S., sec. 480). Coroner to hold inquest and direct autopsy, etc. (R. S., sec. 692). And may order a body to be disinterred for inquisition (R. S., sec. 718). CALIFORNIA. Removal, mutilation, or disinterment of dead body without authority of law is a felony (Pen. Code, sec. 290). Removal of part of body for sale, dissection maliciously or wantonly is punishable (Pen. Code, sec. 291). _Duty of Burial._—Of married woman, on husband; not a married woman, nearest of kin who is an adult with sufficient means; where no relatives, on coroner who held the inquest or overseers, etc., of poor (Pen. Code, sec. 292). Refusal to bury by person on whom duty rests by law to bury, is a misdemeanor and he is liable for treble the expenses (Pen. Code, sec. 293). Custody of body is on him on whom duty to bury is imposed by law, except where coroner detains remains for inquest (Pen. Code, sec. 294). Arrest or attachment of dead body for any debt or demand is a misdemeanor (Pen. Code, sec. 295). One who disinters or exhumes a body without permit of board of health, health officer, or mayor, or transports such exhumed remains through streets of town, city, etc., except in a sealed coffin, guilty of a misdemeanor (Laws, 1878, ch. 673). A sheriff, coroner, or keeper of county poor-house, public hospital, county jail, or State prison, etc., must surrender bodies of those who are to be buried at public expense, to any physician or surgeon for dissection, etc., unless deceased during his last sickness requested to be buried or body is claimed by relatives, etc., or deceased was a stranger or traveller, died suddenly (Pen. Code, sec. 3,094). Coroner to bury body when no other person takes charge of same (Pen. Code, sec. 4,286). Coroner to hold inquest, direct autopsy, and may exhume (Pen. Code, see. 1,510). COLORADO. Concealment of death of issue which, if born alive, would be a bastard, is punishable (Mill’s Stat., sec. 1,195). Body of criminal executed for capital offence shall be delivered to a physician or surgeon unless claimed by relative or friend (Mill’s Stat., sec. 1,204).