ART. 101] CORPORATE INSURANCE. 955

employe by accidental means, or on account of the negligence of such
employer or his officer, agent or servant, if engaged in extra-hazardous
employment, shall be absolutely void unless it shall also cover liability
for the payment of the compensation provided for by this Article.

No contract or insurance issued by a stock company or mutual asso-
ciation against liability arising under this Article shall be cancelled
within the time limited in such contract for its expiration until at least
ten days after notice of intention to cancel such contract, on a date
specified in such notice, shall be filed in the office of the Commission
and also served on the employer. Such notice shall be served on the
employer by delivering it to him or by sending it by mail, by registered
letter, addressed to the employer at his or its last known place of resi-
dence ; provided, that if the employer be a partnership, then such notice
may be so given to any one of the partners, and if the employer be a
corporation, then the notice may be given to any agent or officer of the
corporation upon whom legal process may be served.

1914, ch. 800, sec. 31.

31. Nothing herein shall affect any existing contract of policy of
employer's liability insurance or the liability of any mutual insurance
association, or any arrangement now existing between employers, and
employes, providing for the payment to such employes, their families,
dependents or representatives of sick, accident or death benefits in addi-
tion to the compensation provided for by this Article; but liability for
the compensation specified in this Article shall not be reduced or affected
by any insurance, contribution or other benefit whatsoever, due to or
received by the person entitled to such compensation, and the person
so entitled shall, irrespective "of any such insurance or other contract,
have the right to recover the compensation directly from the employer.

Application of Article ; Extra-Hazardous Employments.

1914, ch. 800, sec. 32.

32. Compensation provided for in this Article shall be payable for
injuries sustained or death incurred by employes engaged in the follow-
ing extra-hazardous employments:

1. The operation, including construction and repair, of railways
operated by steam, electric or other motive power, street railways and
incline railways, but not in their construction when constructed by any
person other than the company which owns or operates the railways,
including work of express, sleeping, parlor and dining car employes on
railway trains.

2. Construction and operation of railways not included in para-
graph one.

3. The operation, including construction and repair, of car shops,
machine shops, steam and power plants, and other works for the pur-
poses of any such railway, or used or to be used in connection with it