WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION 3657

This section referred to in construing sec. 72—see notes thereto. Hagerstown v.
Schreiner, 135 Md. 653 (decided prior to act of 1920, ch. 456). And see Jirout v.
Gebelein, 142 Md. 698.

This section referred to in construing sec. 70—see notes thereto. Brenner v. Brenner,
127 Md. 194.

See notes to sec. 14.

State Accident Fund.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 16. 1912, sec. 16. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 16. 1916, ch. 597, sec. 16.

16. The State Industrial Accident Commission is hereby authorized
and directed to create and establish a fund to be known as the "State
Accident Fund," for the purpose of insuring employers against liability
under this article and to their employees and their dependents the pay-
ment of the compensation specified in this article. Such fund shall con-
sist of all premiums or taxes received and paid into the fund and of prop-
erty and securities acquired and interest earned through the use of moneys
belonging to the fund. Said fund shall be administered by the Commis-
sion and shall be applicable to the payment of losses sustained on account
of insurance and to the payment of expenses in the manner provided in
this article.

See sec. 73.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 17. 1912, sec. 17. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 17. 1916, ch. 597, sec. 17.

1922, ch. 321.

17. For the purpose of creating such State Accident Fund each em-
ployer insured in this Fund or required to be insured therein by this Article
shall pay into the State Treasury the premiums of liability based upon
and being such percentage of the pay roll of such employer, as may have
been determined and published by the Commission and be then in effect.
The premiums shall be paid every four months, and shall be the prescribed
percentage of the total wages paid to all employees subject to the Article
for such preceding four months' period; provided however, that in order
to create a fund available upon the application of this Article as aforesaid
on November first, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, the payments
for the months of November, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, to
February, inclusive, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, shall be made
on or before November first, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen and
be preliminarily based upon the payroll of the operations of the first four
months of the year one thousand nine hundred and fourteen. If any em-
ployer be found to have overpaid for such four months he may deduct
such overpayment from the next succeeding four months' payment made
to the fund; if any employer be found to have underpaid for such four
months, he shall pay the deficiency with the payment made by him after
the end of said four months.

This section referred to in construing sec. 48—see notes thereto. Picanardi v. Emerson
Hotel Co., 135 Md. 94.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 18. 1912, sec. 18. 1914, ch. 800, sec. 18.

18. If a single establishment of work insured in the State Accident
Fund comprises several occupations listed in Section 33 of this article,
the premium shall be computed according to the payroll of each occupa-
tion, if clearly separable; otherwise an average rate of premium shall be
charged for the entire establishment, taking into consideration the num-
ber of employes and the relative hazards. In computing the payroll the