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employed wholly without the State. But for all purposes of this Article
casual, occasional or incidental employment outside of this State by the
Maryland employer of an employee or employees regularly employed by
said employer within this 'State shall be construed to be employment within
this State; provided, however, if an employee or the dependents of an em-
ployee shall receive compensation or damages under the laws of any other
State, nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to permit a total
compensation for the same injury greater than is provided for in this
Article.

(4) "Employment" includes employment only in a trade, business or
occupation carried on by the employer for pecuniary gain.

(5) "Compensation" means the money allowance payable to an em-
ployee or to his dependents as provided for in this Article, and includes
funeral benefits provided therein.

(6) "Injury" and "Personal Injury" means only accidental injuries
arising out of and in the course of employment and such disease or infec-
tion as may naturally result therefrom.

(7) "Death" when mentioned as a basis for the rightto compensation

means only death resulting from such injury.

(8) "Average weekly wages" for the purposes of this Article shall be
taken to mean the average weekly wages earned by an employee when
working on full time.

(9) "State Accident Fund" means the State Insurance Fund provided
for in Section 16 of this Article.

(10) The term "child" and "children" shall include posthumous
children and adopted children, whether members of the deceased em-
ployee's household at the time of his accident or death or not, and shall
also include step-children, illegitimate children and other children, if such
step-children, illegitimate children and other children were members of the
household of the decedent at the time of the accident or death and had re-
ceived contributions toward their support from such deceased employee
during any part of the six months immediately preceding the accident or
death.

(11) "Beneficiary" means a husband, wife, child, children or de-
pendents of an employee in whom, shall vest a right to receive payment
under this Article.

(12) "Mining" means all underground workings by shaft, drift, slope
or otherwise, for the securing, removing, and taking out from under the
ground, coal, iron ore, clays and all other minerals and mineral substances,
found in and under the earth, and shall mean all work done by any miner
or employee working in and about said mines in said shafts, slopes, head-
ings, tunnels, rooms and other subterranean places therein, for the pur-
poses of obtaining and removing therefrom all such minerals and mineral
substances, and the benefits of this Article shall be extended to any em-
ployee, or in case of his death, to his dependent relatives, otherwise en-
titled, who shall be killed or injured while so working or employed therein,
and such mine-worker shall be deemed to be wholly employed in the State