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election, filed with the Commission, accept the provisions of this Article
and such acceptances when approved by the Commission, shall subject
them to the provisions of this Article to all intents and purposes as if they
had been originally included in its terms.

Any workman of the age of sixteen years and upwards may himself ex-
ercise the election hereby authorized. The right of election hereby author-
ized shall be exercised on behalf of any workman under the age of sixteen
years by his parent or guardian. Nothing herein shall be construed to
apply to workmen of less than the minimum age prescribed by law for the
employment of minors in the occupation in which such workman shall be
engaged.

The provisions of this Article shall apply to employers and employes
engaged in intra-state and also in interstate or foreign commerce, for
whom a rule of liability or method of compensation has been or may be
established by the Congress of the United States, only to the extent that
their mutual connection with intra-state work may and shall be clearly
separable and distinguishable from interstate or foreign commerce, ex-
cept that any such employer and any of his workmen only in this State
may, with the approval of the Commission, and so far as not forbidden by
any Act of Congress, voluntarily accept the provisions of this Article by
filing written acceptances with the Commission, which 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.

A man carrying a message relating to a supply of coal for a railroad company's
use is not engaged in interstate commerce, and hence is subject to workmen's
compensation act. Purpose of this section. Cases reviewed. Hines v. Baechtel, 137
Md. 515.

See notes to sec. 14.

An. Code, sec. 34. 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 em-
ployed in interstate or foreign commerce who sustain personal injury by
accident arising out of and in the course of snch 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 em-
ployer in commerce or business wholly within this State, sustains personal
injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment and
resulting in his disability, 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.