MARYLAND WORKMEN'S
COMPENSATION LAW.

For information relating to this Law address the State In-
dustrial Accident Commission. Equitable Building, Baltimore.

CHAPTER 800, ACTS OF 1914.

AN ACT to promote the general welfare of this State by pro-
viding compulsory insurance against accident or death, of
workmen engaged in extra-hazardous employments in this
State, and providing for the form, kind. and method of such
insurance and the incidents thereto; and providing for the
amounts of compensation payable thereunder and the per-
son or persons to whom such. compensation is payable; and.
providing for the creation of a State Industrial Accident
Commission and defining its powers; and providing for the
creation of a State Accident Fund; and providing for an
appropriation to carry out the provisions of this Act; and
providing for the abolishment in certain cases of the de-
fenses of "Assumption of Risks," "Contributor Negli-
gence" and the "Negligence of a Fellow Servant" in ac-
tions for personal injury and death, and to repeal Chapter
837 of the Acts of 1912, and to repeal Chapter 139 of the
Acts of 1902; Chapter 153 of the Acts of 1910 as amended
by the Acts of 1912, Chapter 445, and. to provide for the
equitable disposition of the funds created by virtue of the
said Acts of 1902, Chapter 139, and the Acts of 1910, Chap-
ter 153.

Whereas, The State of Maryland recognizes that the prose-
cution of various industrial enterprises which must be relied.
upon to create and preserve the wealth and prosperity of the
State involves injury to large numbers of workmen, resulting
in their partial or total incapacity or death, and that under
the rules of the common law and the provisions of the statutes
now in force an unequal burden is cast upon its citizens, and
that in determining the responsibility of the employer on ac-