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said Treasurer to pay unto the personal representative of the deceased the
relief money as herein provided, to be disbursed by him under the direc-
tion of the County Commissioners, as hereinafter provided, for the sus-
tenance of the dependents of said deceased employee. The County Com-
missioners shall determine the manner and form of the proof herein re-
quired; provided, that such proof shall at least consist of a certificate of
the mine foreman or superintendent, and of the mine inspector, that the
injury was received by the employee in the discharge of his duty, and the
certificate 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
such suit shall be brought by the employee within twelve months from
the date of the injury and by the personal representative within six months

from the date of the death of the deceased employee, and failure to com-
mence such suits within said periods shall forfeit all right or claim of
said parties to any payments out of said fund.

Amer. Coal Co. v. Allegany Co., 128 Md. 564.

1910, ch. 153, sec. 6 (p. 489).

397. Upon application by a personal representative for the relief
money contemplated by this Act, for the sustenance of the indigent de-

pendent or dependents of a deceased employee, the County Commission-
ers shall determine who the dependents are, and the relative claims and
necessities of each for shares of the relief money payable, whether the age,
habits and prudence of such dependents, if any, are such as to render
them fit persons to receive the principal of such relief money as may be
apportioned by the County Commissioners to any dependent, and if not,
then the County Commissioners may order such relief money paid in
limited parts, periodically, until the portion and interest thereon of such
dependent shall become exhausted. In the case of the dependents con-
sisting of a mother and infant children said Commissioners may, after
adequate investigation, if they shall deem it of advantage to the depend-
ents, order not more than seven hundred and fifty dollars of such relief
money invested in a home for such dependents, the title to be in fee, and
to be invested in the personal representatives as trustee for the benefit of