Section 69. It shall be the duty of t'he Officer in of a Police Station, on &ad officer to make receiving notice

69. It shall be the duty of t'he Officer in of a Police Station, on &ad officer to make receiving notice or information of the unnatural or sudden ilnmediate enquhy andredeath of any person, immediately to send intimation to the port on unnatural and sudden death. nearest Magistrate, and to proceed to the place wlzere the body of such deceased person is, and there in the presence of two or more respectable inhabitants of the izeiglzbourlzood, to make enquiry and report the apparent cause of death, describing any mark of violence which may be found on tlze body, and statiiig in what manner or by what weapon or instrulneizt such inark appears to have been inflicted. The report shall be signed by such Police OfEcer and other persons, or by so many of them as shall concur therein, 2nd shall be fortlzwith forwarded to the Magistrate. When there may be any doubt regarding the cause of death, such Police Officer shall forward the body with a view to its being examined by the Civil Surgeon, if the state of the weather and distance will admit of its being so forwarded without risk of putrefaction on tlze road. 70, The powers to be exercised by ail Officer in charge of a Police p,y the powem of Station under this Act shall be exercised in the event of tlle Hmd OfiCs " exercised in his absence or his absence OL. illriess by the Police Officer next in rank illness. present at the Police Station, above the rank of n Peon or Rurkundaz.