and authority to examine payrolls and require reports from employers and insurance carriers as may be reasonable and necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and t adopt rules and regulations in regard thereto.

1914, ch. 800, sec. 28.

28. If this Act shall be hereafter repealed, all moneys which are in the State Accident Fund at the time of the repeal, shall be subject to such disposition as may be provided by the Legislature, and in default of such legislative provision, distribution thereof shall be in accordance with the justice of the matter, due regard being had to obligations of compensation incurred and existing.

Ibid, sec. 29.

29. Every policy for the insurance of the compensation herein provided for, or against liability therefor, shall be deemed to be made subject to the provisions of this Act. No company or association shall enter into any such policy of insurance until such company or association shall first obtain from the Insurance Commissioner of Maryland a license of authority for the purpose, which said Commissioner of Insurance shall have full power and authority from time to time to determine the adequacy of its or their premium rates for carrying compensation insurance as provided in this law, and until the form of such policy shall have been approved by the State Industrial Accident Commission; and said Insurance Commissioner shall have full power and authority to require said insurance companies to establish and maintain adequate rates to cover re spective risks to which their policies are applicable under the provisions of this Act. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred, nor more than one thousand dollars for each offense.

Ibid, sec. 30.

30. Every policy of insurance covering the liability of the employer for compensation, issued by a stock company or by a mutual association authorized to transact workmen's compen sation insurance in this State, shall contain a provision setting forth the right of the Commission to enforce in the name of the

State of Maryland for the benefit of the person entitled to the compensation insured by the policy, either by filing a separate application or by making the insurance carrier a party to the original application, the liability of the insurance carrier in whole or in part for the payment of such compensation; provided, however, that payment in whole or in part of such compensation, by either the employer or the insurance carrier, shall, to the extent thereof, be a bar to the recovery against the other of the amount so paid.

Every, such policy shall contain a provision that, as between the employee and the insurance carrier, the notice to or knowledge of the injury on the part of the employer shall be deemed notice or knowledge, as the case may be, on the part of the insurance carrier; the jurisdiction of the employer shall, for the purpose of this Act, be the jurisdiction of the insurance carrier, and that the insurance carrier shall, in all things, be bound by and subject to the orders, findings, decisions or awards rendered against the employer for the payment of compensation under the provisions of this Act.

Every such policy shall contain a provision to the effect that the insolvency or bankruptcy of the employer shall not relieve the insurance carrier from the payment of compensation for injuries or death sustained by an employee during the life of such policy.

Every contract or agreement of an employer, the purpose of which is to indemnify him from loss or damage on account of the injury of an employee by accidental means, or on account of the negligence of such employer or his officer, agent or servant, if engaged in extra hazardous employment, shall be absolutely void unless it shall also cover liability for the payment of the compensation provided for by this Act.

No contract or insurance issued by a stock company or mutual association, against liability arising under this Act, shall be canceled within the time limited in such contract for its expiration until at least ten days after notice of intention to cancel such contract, on a date specified in such notice, shall be filed in the office of the Commissioner and also served on the employer. Such notice shall be served on the employer by de

livering it to him or by sending it by mail, by registered letter, addressed to the employer at his or its last known place of residence; provided, that if the employer be a partnership, then such notice may be so given to any one of the partners, and if the employer be a corporation, then the notice may be given to any agent or officer of the corporation upon whom legal process may be served.

Ibid, sec. 31.

31. Nothing herein shall affect any existing contract of policy of employer's liability insurance, or the liability of any mutual insurance association, or any arrangement now existing between employers and employees, providing for the payment to such employees, their families, dependents or representatives of sick, accident or death benefits in addition to the compensation provided for by this Act; but liability for the compensation specified in this Act shall not be reduced or affected by any insurance, contribution or other benefit whatsoever, due to or received by the person entitled to such compensation, and the person so entitled shall, irrespective of any such insurance or other contract, have the right to recover the compensation directly from the employer.*

Ibid, sec. 32. 1916, ch. 597.

32. Compensation provided for in this Act shall be payable for injuries sustained or death incurred by employees engaged in the following extra hazardous employments:

1. The operation, including construction and repair of rail. ways operated by steam, electric or other motive power, street railways and incline railways, but not in their construction, when constructed by any person other than the company which owns or operates the railways, including work of express, sleeping, parlor and dining car employees on railway trains.

2. Construction and operation of railways not included in paragraph one.

SETTLEMENT.-See opinion of S. I. A. C., Claim 464, Mrs. William Lessner, claimant. Petition to withdraw claim in order to effect private settlement refused.

See opinion of S. I. A. C., Claim 215, Emma R. Chambers, claimant, as to dependency with benefits from other sources and average weekly wage.

3. The operation, including construction and repair of car shops, machine shops, steam and power plants, and other works for the purposes of any such railway, or used or to be used in connection with it when operated, constructed or repaired by the company which owns or operates the railway.

4. The operation, including construction and repair, of car shops, machine shops, steam and power plants, not included in paragraph 3.

5. The operation, including construction and repair, of telephone lines and wires for the purpose of the business of a telephone company, or used or to be used in connection with its business, when constructed or operated by the company.

6. The operation, including construction and repair, of telegraph lines and wires for the purposes of the business of a telegraph company, or used or to be used in connection with its business, when constructed or operated by the company.

7. Construction of telegraph and telephone lines not included in paragraphs 5 and 6.

8. The operation, within or without the State, including repair of vessels other than vessels of other States or countries used in interstate or foreign commerce, when operated or repaired by the company.*

9. Shipbuilding, including construction and repair in a shipyard or elsewhere, not included in paragraph 8.

10. Longshore work, including the loading or unloading of cargoes or parts of cargoes of grain, coal, ore, freight, general merchandise, lumber or other products or materials, or moving or handling the same on any dock, platform or place, or in any warehouse or other place of storage.†

11. Subaqueous or caisson construction and pile driving.

See opinion S. I. A. C., Claim 578, J. Peter Clawson, employee. Commission is without jurisdiction when the injured employee is employed under shipping articles and engaged at the time of the accident in purely maritime employ(Daily Record, Nov. 27, 1915.)

ment.

See opinion of S. I. A. C., Claim 3521, Emma Luebenheusen, claimant, as to jurisdiction of Commission in case of admiralty. (Daily Record, Feb. 5, 1916.)

† See opinion of S. I. A. C., Claim 1719, Ida K. Hill, claimant, as to jurisdiction of Commission re longshoreman. (Daily Record, Feb. 16, 1916.) See also opinion in case or claim of Emma Luebenheusen. (Daily Record, Feb. 5, 1916.)

12. Construction, installation or operation of electric light and electric power lines, dynamos or appliances and power transmission lines.

13. Paving, sewer and subway construction, work under compressed air, excavations, tunneling and shaft sinking, well dig. ging, laying and repair of underground pipes, cables and wires, not included in paragraph 5 of this section.

14. Lumbering, logging, river-driving, rafting, booming, saw mills, shingle mills, lath mills, manufacture of veneer and of excelsior, manufacture of staves, spokes or headings.

15. Pulp and paper mills.

16. Manufacture of furniture, interior woodwork, organs. pianos, piano actions, canoes, small boats, coffins, wicker and rattan ware, upholstering, manufacture of mattresses or bed springs.

17. Planing mills, sash and door factories, manufacture of wooden and corrugated paper boxes, cheese boxes, mouldings, window and door screens, window shades, carpet sweepers, wooden toys, articles and wares or baskets.

18. Mining, reduction of ores and smelting, preparation of metals or minerals.

19. Quarries; sand, shale, clay or gravel pits, lime kilns; manufacture of brick, tile, terra-cotta, fire-proofing, or paving blocks, manufacture of calcium carbide, cement, asphalt or paving material.

20. Manufacture of glass, glass products, glassware, porcelain or pottery.

21. Iron, steel or metal foundries; rolling mills; manufacture of castings, forgings, heavy engines, locomotives, machinery, safes, anchors, cables, rails, shafting, wires, tubing, pipes, sheet metal boilers, furnaces, stoves, structural steel, iron or metal.

22. Operation and repair of stationary engines and boilers, not included in other paragraphs of this section.*

23. Manufacture of small castings or forgings, metal wares, instruments, utensils and articles, hardware, nails, wire goods, screens, bolts, metal beds, sanitary water gas or electric fixtures light machines, typewriters, cash registers, adding ma

See note to section 35 of Article 101.