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delivered by such Treasurer to his successor in office, who shall receipt
for the same.

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

1910, ch. 153, sec. 8 (p. 491).

399. All assignments of claims for relief money provided in this Act
and all assignments of claims against any operator for injuries received
by an employee in the discharge of his duty or for disability or death
(provided such operator shall not have been in default in compliance with
the provisions of this Act at the time of such injuries, disability and
death) shall be null and void, and said claims shall not be subject to

attachment, garnishment or other legal process.

1910, ch. 153, sec. 9 (p. 491).

400. No suit or action shall lie or be brought or maintained against
any operator for or in respect of the death of any employee whose per-

sonal representatives shall have accepted the relief money provided for
in this Act, and no such suit or action shall be brought before the expira-

tion of six months from the date of the employee's death, nor while any
suit brought by the personal representative for such relief money, is pend-
ing. In case any suit or action is brought against any operator by any
person claiming damages for or in respect of injury or disability received
in the discharge of his duty as an employee of such operator, all right and

claim of such person to any payments out of the fund shall be thereby
forfeited. When any person claiming that he has sustained injury or

disability, shall accept any relief money, provided for in this Act, for and
in respect of such injury or disability or shall commence any suit against
the County Commissioners for such relief money, the operator in whose
employ such person sustained the injury or disability shall be exempt
from liability therefor, and thereafter no suit or action shall lie or be
brought or maintained against such operator for or in respect of such
injury or disability or death resulting therefrom. Provided, that the
provisions of this section shall not apply to cases where the operator has
been in default in compliance with the provisions of this Act at the time

of the injury, disability or death.

1910, ch. 153, see. 10 (p. 491).

401. If any suit or action be brought against any operator for or in
respect of any injury or disability received by an employee while in dis-
charge of his duty or for death resulting therefrom, including death from

contact with mine gases, and said operator shall appear and defend such
suit or action, and a judgment shall be rendered against him, he shall,
after satisfying said judgment and upon filing with the County Com-
missioners a certified copy of said judgment and the order of satisfaction,
be entitled thereafter to deduct from the payments required to be made
by him hereunder to the County Treasurer, a sum equal to the amount

of said judgment and costs; provided, that said operator shall have notified