Compensation of juror for attendance on inquest.

Sec. 2540. Each juror sworn before any medical examiner or judge, on an inquest taken by either of them on view of any dead body, is entitled to receive $6.00 for each day's attendance and $3.00 for each half day's attendance on the inquest, the accounts for the service to be allowed by the county board of commissioners in counties not having a board of county auditors, and in counties having a board of county auditors by the board, on the certificate of the medical examiner or judge.