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ability, one dollar per day, not including Sundays, excluding the first
week following the injury, for a period not exceeding fifty-two weeks,
(d) In the event of personal injuries as aforesaid resulting in death
within a period of one year, one thousand five hundred dollars, provided
that in case of any payments shall have been made on account of the
above-mentioned losses or disability during treatment, or total disability
resulting from said injuries, the amount thereof shall be deducted from
the sum payable upon death of the person injured, (e) In case of death
resulting from having come in contact with any of the mine gases, one
thousand five hundred dollars. When any such employee shall have suf-
fered loss from injury in the discharge of his duty, as aforesaid, the Coun-
ty Commissioners for the county in which he shall have suffered said loss
from injury, shall, within thirty days after the receipt by them of satis-
factory proof thereof, direct the Treasurer of the county to pay unto said
employee upon his proper receipt therefor the sum of relief money as pro-
vided herein for such loss from, injury; when such injury shall result in
disability as aforesaid, the said County Commissioners shall within thirty
days after the receipt by them of satisfactory proof of the injury and dis-
ability, direct the said Treasurer to pay said employee the per diem relief
money as herein provided. When such injury shall result in death or the
employee shall have been killed by coming in contact with mine gases,
as aforesaid, said County Commissioners shall, within thirty days after
the receipt of satisfactory proof of the injury and death, direct the said
Treasurer to pay unto the personal representative of the deceased the relief
money as herein provided, to be disbursed by him under the direction of
the County Commissioners, as hereinafter provided, for the sustenance of
the dependents of said deceased employee. The County Commissioners
shall determine the manner and form of the proof herein required; pro-
vided, that such proof shall at least consist of a certificate of the mine
foremen or superintendent, and of the mine inspector, that the injury
was received by the employee in the discharge of his duty, and the cer-
tificate of a reputable physician setting forth the injury in detail; and,
in the case of continuing disability, an additional certificate, monthly, of
such physician, certifying as to the period that the employee has been
unable to resume his duties as a direct result of the injury; and in the
case of death, an additional certificate of such physician that death has
resulted from said injury. If the County Commissioners shall fail or
refuse to direct the Treasurer to pay or the Treasurer shall fail or refuse
to pay unto any employee or personal representative of a deceased em-
ployee the relief money provided under this Act, suit may be brought by
him, and in such suit the County Commissioners of the proper county
shall be made defendant and shall defend such suit as other cases and have
power to compromise the same in the exercise of a just discretion, and
if not compromised the Court shall determine whether such relief money
ought to be payable under this Act, but any judgment rendered in such
cases shall only be payable out of the Relief Fund; provided, that any