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every such action shall be commenced within twelve
calendar months after the death of the deceased;
and provided further that the damages recovered for
such death shall not be liable for the debts of the de-
ceased.

"Sec. 3. The master or employer shall not be liable
under this Act if the servant or employee knew of
the negligence or defect causing the injury, and failed in
a reasonable time to give information thereof to the
master or employer, or to some person superior to him-
self in the service of the employer, who had entrusted to
him some general superintendence.

''Sec. 4. All contracts or agreements made with em-
ployees, and all regulations, rules or by-laws made by
any employer by which the liability of the employer is
sought to be waived, limited or compromised, and made
prior to the time the right of action has accrued, shall be
void.

"Sec. 5. Nothing herein contained shall take away or
abrogate any existing cause of action or do away with any
of the remedies a fellow servant is now entitled to, it being
the intention of this Act to enlarge and not to limit the
liability of the employers to make compensation for in-
juries suffered by their employees. "

"Sec. 6. This Act shall not apply to domestic servants
or farm laborers. "

Mr. Collins, from the Committee on Claims, reported
favorably, the following order:

Ordered, That the W. J. C. Dulany Company, State
Printers, be paid the sum of $69 for printing the testi-
mony in the Darr-Merrick election contest, said sum to
be taken out of the appropriation for printing for this
session.

Which was adopted by yeas and nays as follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs.

Speaker, Disharoon. Knott,
King, Corkran, Lehmayer,
Kendall, Keys, Latrobe,
Norris, of Kent, Merrick, Curtis.
Ditty, Perkins, Duncan,