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1910, ch. 153, sec. 4 (p. 187).

457. The Treasurers of Allegany and Garrett Counties shall be legally
liable to the respective boards of County Commissioners for the safe and
proper custody of the moneys received by them under this Act, and shall
hold the same in a separate fund, to be known as "Miners and Operators
Co-Operative Relief Fund," and shall only draw upon said fund as pro-
vided by this Act. The respective Boards of County Commissioners may
award the Treasurers in compensation for their services hereunder in
Garrett County, an amount equal to two per cent., and in Allegany County
an amount equal to one per cent, of the tax collected hereunder, said com-
pensation to be paid out of the general revenues of the respective coun-
ties, and said Treasurers shall each keep careful statistics of the opera-
tions of this function, prepare and submit monthly in advance to the
operators forms for their reports, and himself make monthly reports on
or before the first day of each month of the operation of the same to the
County Commissioners of his county, stating receipts, disbursements and
such other facts as may be necessary to correctly present the status of the
fund. The Treasurer of Allegany County shall give bond to the State of
Maryland in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and in such further
Bum as may from time to time be fixed by the County Commissioners of
said county; and the Treasurer of Garrett County, in the sum of five thou-
sand dollars, and in such further sum as may from time to time be fixed
by the County Commissioners of said county, to secure the faithful per-
formance of their duties, and such bonds to be approved by the County
Commissioners and the cost thereof to be charged to the fund.

1910. ch. 153, sec. 5 (p. 487).

458. The Treasurers of Allegany and Garrett Counties, respectively,
shall make payments out of the fund, when directed by the County Com-
missioners of each county, as follows: (a) In the event of personal inju-
ries to any person received while in discharge of his duty as an employee
of any operator, subject to the provisions of this Act and which shall have
complied with the provisions hereof; in case of loss of: both hands, sev-
erance at or above the wrist joint, seven hundred and fifty dollars; both
feet by severance at or above the ankle joint, seven hundred and fifty
dollars; one hand and one foot at or above the said joints, seven hundred
and fifty dollars; either hand by severance at or above the wrist point,
three hundred and seventy-five dollars; either foot by severance at or above
the ankle joint, three hundred and seventy-five dollars; entire sight of
both eyes, if irrecoverably lost, seven hundred and fifty dollars; en-
tire sight of one eye, if irrecovably lost, three hundred and seventy-five
dollars. (b) In the event of personal injuries as aforesaid resulting
in any of the losses hereinbefore designated, the additional amount of
one dollar per day, not including Sundays, excluding the first week fol-
lowing the injury, while he is being treated, for a period not exceeding
twenty-six weeks, (c) In the event of personal injuries as aforesaid not
resulting in any losses hereinbefore designated, but resulting in total dis-