WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION. 3123

As soon as practicable after January 1st, nineteen hundred and eighteen,
and annually thereafter, the Commission shall ascertain as fully and ac-
curately as possible the total payroll of all the employers of this State, sub-
ject to the provisions of this Article, for the preceding calendar year,
whether insured in the State Accident Fund, any stock company, or mutual
association, or self-insured, and shall also calculate and ascertain the
amount paid by the State for administrative expenses of the State Industrial
Accident Commission during said preceding calendar year, including the
amount chargeable to the State Accident Fund under the preceding para-
graph of this section. The Commission shall then calculate and determine
the percentage which the total amount of such salaries and expenses, other
than the amount chargeable to the State Accident Fund, bore to the total
payroll, ascertained as aforesaid for that year, of all the employers of this
State subject to the provisions of this Article; and the percentage so cal-
culated and determined shall be assessed against all such employers carrying
their own insurance in proportion to their several payrolls, and all insurance
carriers, including the State Accident Fund, in proportion to the aggregate
payroll of employers insured therewith, as a special tax for the maintenance
of the State Industrial Accident Commission, other than for conducting and
administering the State Accident Fund, for the calendar year ending
December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for each calen-
dar year thereafter; provided, however, that the total amount to be assessed
against and paid by such insurance carriers and self-insurers shall not
exceed eighty thousand dollars for any one year.

Payment of said taxes may be enforced by civil action in the name of
the State of Maryland, and the amounts so assessed and collected by the
Commission shall be paid into the State Treasury to reimburse the State
for this portion of the expense of administering the Workmen's Compensa-
tion Law. And the Commission shall be and is hereby clothed with such
power 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 to adopt rules and regulations in regard
thereto.

An. Code, sec. 28. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 28.

28. If this Article shall be hereafter repealed, all moneys which are in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.

Corporate Insurance.

An. Code, see. 29. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 29. 1920, ch. 456, 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 Article. No company or association shall enter into any