Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-07-22
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS

paid to the injured employee, or in
case Of death to his dependents less
the expenses and costs of action in
CURED by the employer, insurance
company, association or State Acct
dent Fund as the case may be. If any
such employer, insurance company, as
ISOLATION or State Accident Fund shall
not, within two months from the pas.
sage of the award of this Commission
start proceedings to enforce the liabil-
ity of such other person, the injured
employee, or in case of death, his de-
pendents, may enforce the liability Of
such other person provided, however,
that if damages are recovered the in
Jured employee or in case of death his
dependents may first retain therefrom
the expenses and costs of action for
which the employer, insurance COM
pany, association or the State Acct
dent Fund, as the case may be, shall
be reimbursed for the compensation
already paid or awarded and any
amount or amounts paid for medical
or surgical services, funeral expenses
or for any of the other purposes enum.
Grated in Section 81 of this Act, and
the balance in excess of these items
shall enure to the injured employee
or in case of death, to his dependents,
and the amount thus received by the
injured employee or in case of death
by his dependents shall be in lieu Of
any award that might otherwise have
been made thereafter in the same case
under the provisions of this Act and
said case shall thereupon be deemed
to have been finally settled and closed
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted
That Subsection of Section 63 OF
Article 101 &C u of the Annotated
Code of Maryland be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as
to read as follows:
Section 63, Subsection 8. "Employe"
means a person who is engaged in
an eXtra-hazardous employment in the
service of an employer, carrying on or
conducting the same upon the prem
ises or at a plant or in the course of
his employment away from the plant
of his employer, and shall not include
farm laborers. Farm Laborers," as
used in this Act, shall mean any en-
ployes who, at the time of the acct
dent, are engaged in rendering any
agricultural service, including the
threshing and harvesting of crops, or
who, at the time of the accident, are
engaged in service incidental to and
in connection with agricultural pur-
suits or developments, whether the
employer be the farmer other person
undertaking or contracting with the
farmer to perform any such agricul-
tural service, pursuit or development
This Act shall not apply to farm la,
borers, domestic servants, nor to coun-
try blacks miths, wheelWrights or sim
liar rural employments, unless these
employments elect to come under this
Act as provided in Section SO, nor in
any case where the accident occurred
before this Act takes effect, nor to
casual employees, or any employees who
are employed wholly without the State
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted,
That this Act is an emergency law
and necessary for the immediate pres
ervation of the public health and safe
ty, and having been passed by a yea
and nay vote by three-ffths of all the
members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the
same shall take effect from the date
of its passage.
Approved April 10, 1922