TEXAS UTAH VERMONT VIRGINIA WASHINGTON Officers in charge of prisons, jails, etc., to deliver to anatomical board of Texas dead human bodies required to be buried at public expense, unless claimed by relatives or friends or if deceased died of contagious disease, except tuberculosis or syphilis. Effort must be made to find relatives who must claim body within 24 hours. In case a body is claimed by relatives within 10 days after being delivered to an institution it shall be delivered to them for burial without cost. It shall be the duty of any person into whose charge may come the unclaimed dead body of a convict, which would otherwise have to be buried at public expense, to give notice to the dean of the university within 24 hours after the receipt of the body, specifying probable cause of death. All bodies received at the university shall be promptly embalmed, and shall be preserved for not less than 60 days during which time any relative or friend of deceased making request for body for burial shall receive it. After the 60 days bodies may be used for scientific purposes and must then be decently buried or cremated. Superintendents of public institutions shall deliver over to a practicing physician who has applied in writing, bodies which must otherwise be buried at public expense. No such body shall be so delivered if deceased during his last sickness make request for burial, nor if relative, within 48 hours, require body to be buried. Officers of prisons, jails, etc., shall deliver to the board for distribution of dead human bodies, bodies of convicts who must otherwise be buried at public expense, also bodies of convicts who have suffered the death sentence, unless such bodies are claimed by relatives for burial. After having been used for scientific purposes bodies must be decently buried. Officer in charge of state prison, jail, etc., must surrender the bodies of such persons as would have to be buried at public expense to any physician or surgeon, to be used by him for the advancement of science. If deceased, during his last sickness, requests to be buried, or if, within 48 hours after death relatives or friends request body for burial, body must be buried without dissection. R. S. 1911, Title 90, C. 3, Secs. 5756-63. R. S. 1907, Title 74, C. II, Secs. 2320-4. R. S. 1906, Title 31, Sec. 5374 R. S. 1904, Title 24, Secs. 177681. R. S. 1910, C. 67, No. 4] WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN Officers in charge of prisons, jails, etc., having in their charge bodies of convicts who must otherwise be buried at public expense, shall surrender them, on requisition, to the anatomical board of West Virginia, unless friends or relatives claim body for burial, or make affidavit that they are unable to bear expense of funeral and desire body to be buried at public expense. Public officials having charge of body of deceased prisoner, which must otherwise be buried at public expense, shall promptly notify relatives or friends of deceased. If body be not claimed within 48 hours after death, it shall be placed at disposal of demonstrator of anatomy for scientific purposes, unless in his last sickness convict requested to be buried. Bodies used for scientific purposes must afterwards be decently buried. (369) R. S. 1906, C. 45, R. S. 1898, C. 58, |