ART. 101] APPLICATION OF ARTICLE. 959

shall subject the acceptors to the provisions of this Article to all intents
and purposes as if they had been originally included in its terms.

1914, ch. 800, sec. 33 1/2.

34. Whenever there shall have been enacted by the Congress
of the United States and shall be in effect any act providing
an exclusive remedy and compensation to employes of common carriers
by railroad while employed in interstate or foreign commerce who sus-
tain personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of such
employment and resulting in disability, or to the dependents of such
employes in case such injury results in death, it shall be lawful for any
such common carrier by railroad in this State and its employes or any
of them, by agreement between such employer and employes, to provide
for the payment by the employer of compensation in the amounts at the
times and in the manner specified in said Act of Congress to any
employe who, while employed by such employer in commerce or busi-
ness wholly within this State, sustains personal injury by accident aris-
ing out of and in the course of his employment and resulting in his dis-
ability, or to the dependents, as defined in said Act of Congress, of such
employe in case such injury results in his death; and in and by such
agreement to stipulate and agree that, except as provided therein, such
employer shall not be civilly liable for any injury to or death of any
such employe resulting from any such accident.

If any such employer shall file with the Commission an instrument
in writing under its corporate seal offering to enter into such an agree-
ment with all and any of its employes in this State and referring to
such Act of Congress, and shall cause notice of such offer filed to be
published once each week for three successive weeks following the date
of such filing in a newspaper published in each County in this State
through which such employer runs regularly any freight or passenger
train, and in two newspapers published in the City of Baltimore, if
such employer runs regularly any freight or passenger train into or
through said City, every employe of such employer shall be conclu-
sively presumed to accept such offer of the employer and to have entered
into such agreement, unless such employe shall, within thirty days after
the filing of such offer by the employer, file with the Commission a
notice in writing or statement declining such offer; and at the expira-
tion of said period of thirty days the terms of said agreement shall be
mutually binding upon the employer and upon every employe not so
declining, but any employe or the employer may at any time by filing
with the Commission not less than thirty days' notice in writing of his
or its intention so to do, terminate such agreement upon his or its part
as to all accidental injuries occurring after the expiration of such
notice.