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1914, ch. 800, sec. 52.

53. No employer or employe who are subject to the provisions of
this Article shall exempt himself from the burden or waive the benefit
of this Article by any contract, agreement, rule or regulation, and any
such contract, agreement, rule or regulation shall be pro tanto void.
No agreement by such employe to pay any portion of the premium paid
by such employer shall be valid, and any employer who deducts any
portion of such premium from the wages or salary of any employe
entitled to the benefits of this Article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and Upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than two hundred
dollars for each offense.

1914, ch. 800, sec. 53.

54. The powers and jurisdiction of the Commission over each case
shall be continuing and it may from time to time make such modifica-
tions or change with respect to former findings or orders with respect
thereto as in its opinion may be justified.

1914, ch. 800, sec. 54.

55. If an employe shall be injured because of the absence of any
safeguard or protection required by the Commission, the employer shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to a fine of not less than $50.00
or more than $500.00 to be paid into the State Accident Fund.

Appeals.

1914, ch. 800, sec. 55.

56. Any employer, employe, beneficiary or person feeling aggrieved
by any decision of the Commission affecting his interests under this
Article may have the same reviewed by a proceeding in the nature of
an appeal and initiated in the Circuit Court of the County or in the
Common Law Courts of Baltimore City having jurisdiction over the
place where the accident occurred or over the person appealing from
such decision, and the court shall determine whether the Commission
has justly considered all the facts concerning injury, whether it has
exceeded the powers granted it by the Article, whether it has miscon-
strued the law and facts applicable in the case decided. If the Court
shall determine that the Commission has acted within its powers and
has correctly construed the law and facts, the decision of the Commis-
sion shall be confirmed, otherwise it shall be reversed or modified.
Upon the hearing of such an appeal the Court shall, upon motion of
either party filed with the clerk of the court according to the practice
in civil cases, submit to a jury any question of fact involved in such
case. The proceedings in every such an appeal shall be informal and
summary, but full opportunity to be heard shall be had before judg-
ment is pronounced. No such appeal shall be entertained unless notice
of appeal shall have been served personally upon some member of the
Commission within thirty days following the rendition of the decision