IN RE WONG YUNG QVY. 625 �remains disinterred, exhumed, or taken from any grave, vault, or other place of burial or deposit, be removed or transported in or through the streets or highways of any city, town, or city and oounty, unless the person or persons removing or transporting such body or reinains sball first obtain from the board of health or health offieer, (if such board or officer there be,) and from the mayor or other head of the munici- pal government of the city or town, or city and county, a permit in writing bo to remove or transport such body or rsmains in and through such streets and highways. �"Sec. 2. Permits to disinter or exhume the .dies or re- mains of deceased persons, as in the last section, may be granted, provided the person applying erefor shall produce a certificate from the coroner the physioian who attended such dei^^ased person, or other physician in good standing cognizant of the facts, which certificate shall state the cause of death or disease of which the person died, and also the age and sex of such deceased; and provided, further, that the body or remains of deceased shall be enclosed in a metallic case or coffin, sealed in such manner as to prevent, as far as practieable, any noxious or offensive odor or effluvia escaping therefrom, and that such case or coffin contains the body or remains of but one person, except where infant children of the same parent or parents, or parent and children are con- tained in such case or cofBn. And the permit shall copain the above conditions, and the words, 'Permit to remove and �transport the body of , age , sex;' and the name, �age, and sex shall be written therein. The officer of the municipal government of the city or town, or city and county, granting such permit, shall require to be paid for each permit the Bum of $10,, to be kept as a separate fund by the treas- urer, and which shall be used in defraying expenses of and in respect to such permits, and for the inspection of the metal- lic cases, cofBns, aud enclosing , boxes herein required; and an acoount of such moneys shall be embraced in the accounta and statements of the treasurer having the custody thereof. �"Sec, 3. Any person or persons who shall disinter, exhume, �or remove; or cause to be disinterred, exhumed, or removed v.2,no.7— 40 ����
