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which event the compensation shall be an amount equal to the average
weekly wages, and to continue for no more than five hundred weeks
after the date of death and not to amount to more than a maximum of
; [ten thousand $10, 000. 00 dollars] fifteen thousand ($15, 000) dollars
nor less than a minimum of two thousand ($2, 000. 00) dollars.

(b) If there are no wholly dependent persons at the time of the
death, but there are partly dependent persons, those partly dependent
shall receive compensation as follows: The weekly payments to such
dependents shall be in the amount not exceeding sixty-six and two-
thirds per centum of the average weekly wages or twenty five
FORTY ($25. 00) ($40. 00) dollars per week, but may, in the discre-
tion of the Commission, be for less amount per week and to continue
for all or such portion of the period of 416 weeks, after the date of
death, as the Commission in each case may determine, and not to
amount to more than a maximum of [three thousand dollars] five
thousand dollars.

(c) If there are wholly dependent persons and partly dependent
persons, the Commission may, in its discretion, award compensation
to the wholly dependent persons only, or it may apportion such com-
pensation among such wholly dependent and partly dependent per-
sons in such proportions as, in the discretion of the Commission, it
may consider fair and equitable under all of the facts and circum-
stances of the case, in no event, however, shall the total of such
compensation exceed the sum of [ten thousand ($10, 000. 00) dollars]
fifteen thousand ($15, 000) dollars.

[(g) Compensation under this article to alien dependent widows,
children and parents, not residents of the United States, shall be the
same in amount as is provided in each case for residents, except that
at any time within one year after an accident resulting in death the
Commission may, in its discretion, convert any payments thereafter
to become due to such beneficiaries into lump sum payment, not in
any case to exceed twenty-four hundred dollars, by paying a sum
equal to three-fourths of the then value of such payments. ]

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1960.

Approved March 23, 1960.

CHAPTER 46
(House Bill 47)

AN ACT to repeal Section 67A of Article 77 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1959 Supplement), title "Public Education", sub-
title, "Chapter 5, County Board of Education", and to enact a new
Section 67A in lieu thereof to stand in the place of the section so
repealed, revising the laws concerning the conduct of fire drills in

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.