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shall be annexed to the certificate hereinafter mentioned and filed therewith. After such post-mortem examination, the body, unless claimed by some relative or relatives of the person so executed, shall be interred in the graveyard or cemetery attached to the prison, with a sufficient quantity of quick-lime to consume such body without delay; and no religious or other services shall be held over the remains after such execution, except within the walls of the prison where said execution took place, and only in the presence of the officers of said prison, the person conducting said services and the immediate family and relatives of said deceased prisoner. Any person who shall violate or omit to comply with any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 508. DEATH PENALTY; CERTIFICATE AFTER EXECU TION. The agent and warden attending the execution must prepare and sign a certificate, setting forth the time and place thereof, and that the convict was then and there executed, in conformity to the sentence of the court and the provisions of this code, and must procure such certificate to be signed by all the persons present and witnessing the execution. He must cause the certificate, together with the certificate of the post-mortem examination mentioned in the preceding section, and annexed thereto, to be filed within ten days after the execution in the office of the clerk of the county in which the conviction was had.

§ 509. DEATH PENALTY; DISABILITY OF AGENT AND WARDEN TO EXECUTE WARRANT.- In case of the disability, from illness or other sufficient cause, of the agent and warden to, whom the death warrant is directed, to be present and execute said warrant, it shall be the duty of the principal keeper of said prison, or such officer of said prison as may be designated by the

superintendent of State prisons, to execute the said warrant, and to perform all the other duties by this act imposed upon said agent and warden.

CHAPTER III.

TITLE VII.

§ 908. KEEPER OF PRISON, TO RETURN LIST OF DISORDERLY PERSONS, ETC.- The keeper of every prison to which disorderly persons may be committed, must return to the county court of the county, on the first day of each term, a list of the persons so committed and then in his custody, with the nature of the offense of each, the name of the magistrate by whom he was committed, and the term of his imprisonment.

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