cide, to inquire by the intervention of a jury, into the cause of the death or wound, and to perform the other duties incidental thereto, in the manner prescribed by the code of criminal procedure: 2. To execute civil process in an action or special proceeding, when the sheriff is a party, as prescribed in sections 482 to 485, both inclusive: 3. To exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred and imposed upon him, by the constitution and by other statutes. § 479. When an act is directed by statute to be performed by a sheriff, or process is issued to him, the duty, in case of the inability of the sheriff, from any cause, to perform it, devolves on the coroner, in the same manner, and with the same powers, duties and responsibilities, as if the process or order had required its performance by that officer. § 480. In the city and county of New-York, if the coroner be absent or unable to attend to the duties prescribed by the first subdivision of section 478, they may be performed by a police justice, but by no other officer, with the like authority and subject to the same obligations and penalties as are attached to the office of coroner. § 481. Each coroner is entitled to receive for his services, in holding an inquest and performing any other [CIVIL. CODE.] 13 duty incidental thereto, such compensation as may be fixed by the board of supervisors of his county; and can receive for those services no other compensation or fees whatever. In the city and county of New-York, the compensation so fixed, must be an annual salary. ARTICLE II. DUTIES OF CORONERS, WHEN THE SHERIFF IS A PARTY. SECTION 482. When sheriff is a party, coroner to execute process. 483. When directed to coroners generally, may be executed by either. How executed. 484. Sheriff, when arrested, where to be confined; person arrested at the suit of sheriff, to be committed to county jail. 485. Powers and duties of coroner, in executing process. §482. When the sheriff is a party to an action or special proceeding, the process therein, which it would otherwise be the duty of the sheriff to execute, must, except when otherwise provided by this code, be executed by the coroner of the county to whom it is delivered. § 483. When process is directed to the coroners of a county generally, it may be executed and returned by either of them, whose acts in respect thereto can in no degree prejudice the others. He must execute it in the same manner as the sheriff must have done, if it might have been executed by him. § 484. If the sheriff, on being arrested by a coroner, on an order of arrest in a civil action, neglect to give bail or make a deposite of money instead thereof, or if he be arrested on an execution against his body, or on a commitment, he must be confined by the coroner in a house within the jail liberties, other than the house of the sheriff or the county jail, in the same manner as the sheriff is required to confine a prisoner in the county jail. The house in which he is thus confined, thereupon becomes, for that purpose, the county jail. If a person be arrested by a coroner, on process in an action in which the sheriff is plaintiff, he must, when his commitment is required by this code, be committed to the county jail; but the coroner is not liable for his escape from the jail, after he is committed thereto. § 485. A coroner who executes process in an action or special proceeding to which the sheriff is a party, as provided in the last three sections, is invested with the powers, duties and responsibilities of the sheriff, in the execution of the process, and in every matter incidental thereto. CHAPTER VII. COUNTY TREASURERS. SECTION 486. Election, removal, security and compensation of county treasurers. 487, 488. Becurities, in name of county treasurer, unless otherwise or dered by the court. 489. County treasurer invested with title thereto. 490. Money brought into court, to be paid to county treasurer, unless otherwise ordered. His accounts, 491. Order on county treasurer for money; to whom payable, and how drawn. 492. Order of court to be authenticated by signature of judge. 493. Power of court to direct investment, or deposite of money. 496. Duty of the supervisors thereon. § 486. There is, in each of the counties of this state except the city and county of New-York, a county treasurer. In the city and county of New-York, the chamberlain of that city is the county treasurer. The manner of their election and removal, of giving and renewing their official bonds, and of supplying a vacancy in their office, is prescribed by special statutes. Their compensation for the services required of them by this chapter, is prescribed by this code. § 487. When a bond, mortgage or other security upon real property is ordered by the court to be taken, it must, unless otherwise directed by the court, be ta ken by the county treasurer of the county where the real property is situated, or by any other county treasurer designated by the court, by his name of office. § 488. All other securities, and all certificates and transfers of stocks ordered by the court, must, unless otherwise directed, be taken by a county treasurer designated by the court, by his name of office. § 489. The county treasurer, by whom a bond, mortgage or other security upon real estate, or any other security, certificate or transfer is taken, as provided in the last two sections, is thereupon vested in trust for the owners of the fund with full title thereto, and may sue for and collect the same, in his name of office. § 490. When money is brought or paid into court, (except a justice's court,) in an action or special proceeding, the clerk must, within five days thereafter, pay it to the county treasurer of the county, unless it be ordered by the court to be paid to another county treasurer, or to be invested or disposed of as provided in section 493. The county treasurer must thereupon make an entry, stating the amount thereof, the time when, and by or for whom, and in what action or proceeding it was so deposited, and the time from which the interest thereon, if any, is to commence. § 491. An order upon a county treasurer, for the payment of money deposited with him, as provided in this chapter, must be payable to the order of the person entitled, thereto or his attorney, and must specify in what particular action or proceeding, or on what account it is to be paid out, and the time when the order authorising the payment was made. |