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identified persons, and a list of the number of persons in consecutive order.

Rule 14. The clothes and other effects belonging to the identified bodies shall be given up to the family or the representatives of the deceased on proper proof, and their receipt be taken for the same.

Rule 15. The clothes and other effects of all unrecognized bodies, when the period of exhibition shall have expired, shall be washed, tied up in packages, and preserved for six months. The package shall be numbered, corresponding to the number of the body on the record book.

Rule 16. After one year's time from the date of the reception of an unidentified body, the Superintendent shall deliver over to the Commissioner of Markets and City Property all the clothes and other property that were found upon the body of the deceased at the time it was received into the Morgue, together with a list of the property then handed over, the same to be copied from the record book, with the number to correspond with that of the body. The Commissioner, on finding the property and list to correspond, shall then preserve the list, and have the property sold at public sale, and shall hand the proceeds of such sales over to the City Treasurer, and take his receipt for the same; and the credit to be made to the Commissioner shall state as realized from the sale of A, B, or C's, deceased, effects, etc

Rule 17. If any corpse shall remain unrecognized forty-eight hours, the Superintendent shall have the body photographed in the clothes in which it was found; and should any regular physician desire to embalm any unclaimed body, he may have the privilege to do so, provided he obtains the written consent of the Coroner and the Commissioner of Markets and City Property.

SECTION 3. From and after the first day of January, A. D. 1871, the Coroner shall have his office in the office of the Morgue building, now located at the northwest corner of Beach and Noble Streets, in the Eleventh Ward.

The Board of City Trusts,

Created by a law enacted June 30, 1869, is composed of twelve gentlemen, appointed by the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State, the District Court, and the Court of Common Pleas. The Mayor of the city, and the Presidents of the Select and Common Councils, are ex-officio members of the Board of Directors of City Trusts. It holds its meetings on the second Wednesday of each month.

The following institutions are under its charge: GIRARD COLLEGE FOR ORPHANS, and WILLS HOSPITAL FOR THE BLIND AND LAME. The Directors of the City Trusts also have charge of all the Charitable Trusts— more than twenty in number—of which the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia is the custodian.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

President, WILLIAM WELSH.

Gustavus S. Benson,
James Campbell,
Charles H. T. Collis,
Wm. H. Drayton,
John H. Michener,
George H. Stuart,

A. W. Henszey,

R. W. Downing,
Alexander Biddle,
James L. Claghorn,
Louis Wagner,
William B Mann,
Henry M. Phillips,
Wm. S. Stokley.

HENRY W. AREY, Secretary,

257 S. Ninth St., or 19 S. Fifth St. (at 12 M.)

Location of Public Offices.

Board of Controllers of Public Schools, S. 6th and Adelphi

streets.

Board of Health, S. 6th and Sansom streets.
Building Inspectors, 709 Sansom streets.

Board of Revision of Taxes, 723 Arch street.
City Treasury Department, Girard Bank Building.
City Commissioner's Office, 212 S. 5th street.
City Controllor's Office, Girard Bank.

Clerk of Orphans' Court, 3 Statehouse Row.
Clerk of Quarter Sessions, New Courthouse.

Coroner's Office, 1343 Chestnut street.

Department of Highways, Chestnut and 6th streets.

Department of Markets and City Property, including Wharves and Public Landings, Walnut and 5th streets.

Department of Surveys and Board of Surveyors, 224 S. 5th

street.

Department of Taxes, 723 Arch street.
District Attorney's Office, New Courthouse.
Fire Department, Cherry and 12th streets.
Girard Estate Office, 19 S. 5th street.
Guardians of the Poor, 42 N. 7th street.
Law Department, 212 S. 5th street.
Philadelphia Gas Works, 20 S. 7th street.
Mayor's Office, 5th and Chestnut streets.

Police Department and Fire Alarm Telegraph, 5th and Chestnut

streets.

Prothonotary of Common Pleas, 9 Statehouse Row.
Prothonotary of District Court, 12 Statehouse Row.

Prothonotary of Supreme Court, 7 Statehouse Row.

Recorder's Office, 521 Chestnut street.

Recorder of Deeds, 425 Chestnut street.

Register of Wills, 6 Statehouse Row.

Sheriff's Office, 4 Statehouse Row.

United States Pension Office, 718 Sansom street.

United States Pension, Widow's Agency, 716 Walnut street. Water Department, 104 S. 5th street.

U. S. Army Medical Service.

Brig.-General J. K. BARNES, M.D., Surgeon-General, Washington D. C.

The Medical Officers of the U. S. Army, on duty in Philadelphia, are:

1. Surgeon W. S. KING, Attending Surgeon.

2. Dr. JOHN NEILL, Act. Asst. Surgeon, examining recruits, 118 South Second Street.

Gentlemen desiring to enter this service can obtain all information needful as to the requirements and the steps to be taken by addressing the Surgeon-General.

U. S. Naval Medical Service.

Surgeon-General JOSEPH BEALE, M.D., Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, D. C.

Naval Asylum.

Med. Director, EDWARD SHIPPEN, M.D.
Passed Asst. Surgeon, JOHN W. COLES, M.D.
Passed Asst. Surgeon, H. M. MARTIN, M.D.
Asst. Surgeon, WALTER A. MCCLURG, M. D.

Navy Yard.

Med. Director, J. MCCLELLAND, M.D.

Passed Asst. Surgeon, H. N. BEAUMONT.

Receiving Ship Potomac.

Surgeon, JOHN C. SPEAR. Acting Asst. Surgeon, JOSEPH TAYLOR. Attending naval officers not otherwise provided with medical aid.

League Island.

Surgeon, E. C. VER MEULEN, M.D.

Gentlemen desiring to enter this service can obtain all needful information by addressing the Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

Board of Examining Surgeons for Pensions.

(Appointed by the United States.)

OFFICE, 722 SANSOM STREET.

H. EARNEST GOODMAN, M.D., President.
JAMES COLLINS, M.D., Secretary and Treasurer.
Dr. Thomas H. Sherwood.

Office hours, 10 A. M. every Wednesday.

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