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jured person or a physician engaged by the employer, or both,
and is established to the satisfaction of the Commission. No
part of the sum hereinaboye provided for additional hospital
services shall be used directly or indirectly for any other pur-
pose ; Provided, however, that the employer shall repair or re-
place any eye-glasses, artificial limb, eye, tooth or other part
that shall be damaged or destroyed as a result of an accident
during the course of employment and if the eye-glasses, artifi-
cial limb, eye, tooth, or other part is not repaired or re-
placed within three days following its damage or destruc-
tion, then the employer shall pay the employee such compen-
sation for his lost time, if any, after the three-day waiting
period, as the Commission may direct. If an employer fails
to provide the same, the injured employee may do so at the
expense of the employer. All fees and other charges for
such treatment and services shall be subject to regulation by
the Commission, and shall be limited to such charges as pre-
vail in the same community for similar treatment of injured
persons of a like standard of living, and in case death ensues
from the injury within three years, reasonable funeral ex-
penses shall be allowed, not to exceed the sum of three hun-
dred dollars. Any bill for funeral expenses contracted for
an amount in excess of three hundred dollars shall be
null and void and uncollectible either out of the compensation
allowed or out of the personal assets of those obligating them-
selves to pay, unless and until said bill is approved by the
Commission. Provided, however, that if there are no de-
pendents and the deceased employee leaves sufficient estate to
pay the same, all expenses of last sickness and burial shall be
paid by said estate and not by the employer or insurance com-
pany, or Commission out of the State Accident Fund, as the
case may be. The Commission shall have full power to adopt
rules and regulations with respect to furnishing medical,
nurse, hospital services and medicine to injured employees
entitled thereto and for the payment therefor.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved March 29, 1947.

CHAPTER 151.
(Senate Bill 61)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
65 and 69 of Article 17 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "Clerks of Courts", sub-title "Clerks