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blacksmiths, wheelwrights or similar rural employments, unless these
employments elect to come under this Article as provided in Section 33,
nor in any case where the accident occurred before this Act takes effect,
nor to casual employes or any employes who are employed wholly without
the State. But for all purposes of this Article casual, occasional or inciden-
tal employment outside of this State by the Maryland employer of an
employe or employes regularly employed by said employer within this
State shall be construed to be employment within this State; provided,
however, if an employe or the dependents of an employe shall receive
compensation or damages under the laws of any. other State, nothing
herein contained shall be construed so as to permit a total compensation
for the same injury greater than is provided for in this Article.

(4) " Employment" includes employment only in a trade, business or
occupation carried on by the employer for pecuniary gain.

(5) "Compensation" means the money allowance payable to an em-
ployee or to his dependents as provided for in this Article, and includes
funeral benefits provided therein.

(6) " Injury " and " Personal Injury " means only accidental injuries
arising out of and in the course of employment and such disease or infection
as may naturally result therefrom.

(7) " Death " when mentioned as a basis for the right to compensation
means only death resulting from such injury.

(8) " Average weekly wages " for the purposes of this Article shall be
taken to mean the average weekly wages earned by an employee when
working on full time.

(9) " State Accident Fund " means the State Insurance Fund provided
for in Section 16 of this article.

(10) The term "child" and "children" shall include posthumous
children and adopted children, whether members of the deceased employee's
household at the time of his accident or death or not, and shall also include
step-children, illegitimate children and other children, if such step-children,
illegitimate children and other children were members of the household
of the decedent at the time of the accident or death and had received
contributions toward their support from such deceased employee during
any part of the six months immediately preceding the accident or death.

(11) " Beneficiary " means a husband, wife, child, children or depend-
ents of an employee in whom shall vest a right to receive payment under
this article.

(12) " Mining " means all underground workings by shaft, drift, slope
or otherwise, for the securing, removing and taking out from under the
ground coal, iron ore, clays, and all other minerals and mineral substances,
found in and under the earth, and shall mean all work done by any miner
or employee working in and about said mines in said shafts, slopes, head-
ings, tunnels, rooms and other subterranean places therein, for the purposes
of obtaining and removing therefrom all such minerals and mineral sub-
stances, and the benefits of this article shall be extended to any employee,
or in case of his death, to his dependent relatives, otherwise entitled, who
shall be killed or injured while so working or employed therein, and such