644 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Cil. 329

wages or (, f 18, 00) eighteen dollars per week, but may, in the
discretion of the Commission, be for a less amount per week
and to continue for all or such portion of the period of 416
weeks, after the date of the injury, as the Commission in
each case may determine, and not to amount to more than a
maximum of three thousand dollars.

The following persons shall be presumed to be wholly de-
pendent for support upon a deceased employee: A wife or
invalid husband ("invalid" meaning one physically or men-
tally incapacitated from earning), a child or children under
the age of sixteen years (or over said age if physically or
mentally incapacitated from earning) living with or dependent
upon the parent at the time of the injury or death.

In all other cases, questions of dependency, in whole or in
part, shall be determined in accordance with the facts in each
particular case existing at the time of the injury resulting in
death of such employee, but no person shall be considered as
dependent unless such person be a father, mother, grandfather,
grandmother, stepchild, or grandchild, or brother or sister of
the deceased employee, including those otherwise specified in
this Section.

The right to any compensation payable to any dependent
and unpaid at the date of death of any such dependent shall
survive to and be vested in the surviving dependents as the
Commission may determine, if there be such surviving de-
pendents, and if there be none such, then the compensation
shall cease.

Compensation under this Article to alien dependent widows,
children and parents, not residents of the United States, shall
be the same in amount as is provided in each case for residents,
except that at any time within one year after an accident re-
sulting in death the Commission may, in its discretion, convert
any payments thereafter to become due to such beneficiaries
into a lump sum payment, not in any case to exceed twenty-four
hundred dollars, by paying a sum equal to three-fourths of the
then value of such payments.

Non-resident alien dependents may be officially represented
by the consular officers of the nation of which such alien or
aliens may be citizens or subjects, and in such cases the con-
sular officers shall have the right to receive, for distribution
to such non-resident alien dependents, all compensation
awarded hereunder, and the receipt of such consular officers
shall be a full discharge of all sums paid to and received by
them.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1937.

Approved May 18, 1937.