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300 MARYLAND MANUAL,

trustee of a person, partnership, association or corporation
employing workmen in extra-hazardous employments.

3. "Employee" means a person who is engaged in an extra-
hazardous employment in the service of an employer carry-
ing on or conducting the same upon the premises or at a plant,
or in the course of his employment away from the plant of
his employer, and shall not include farm laborers. "Farm
laborers," as used in this Act, shall mean any employees who,
at the time of the accident, are engaged in rendering any agri-
cultural service, including the thrashing and harvesting of
crops, or who, at the time of the accident) are engaged in serv-
ice incidental to and in connection with agricultural pursuits
or developments, whether the employer be the farmer or other
person undertaking or contracting with the farmer to perform
any such agricultural service, pursuit or development. This
Act shall not apply to farm laborers, domestic servants nor to
country blacksmiths, wheelwrights or similar rural employ-
ments, nor in any case where the accident occurred before this
Act takes effect, nor to casual employees or any employee
whose salary is in excess of two thousand dollars a year, or
any employees who are employed wholly without the State.

4. "Employment" includes employment only in a trade,
business or occupation carried, on by the employer for pecuni-
ary gain.

5. "Compensation" means the money allowance payable to
an employee or to his dependents as provided for in this Act,
and includes funeral benefits provided therein.

6. "Injury" and "personal injury" mean only accidental
injuries arising out of and in the course of employment and
such disease or infection as may naturally and unavoidably
result therefrom.

7. "Death," when mentioned as a basis for the right to com-
pensation, means only death resulting from such injury.

8. "Average weekly wages" for the purposes of this Act
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 Act.

10. "Child" shall include a posthumous child and a child
legally adopted prior to the injury of the employee.

11. "Beneficiary" means a husband, wife, child, children
or dependents of an employee in whom shall vest a right to
receive payment under this Act.

 

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