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physician, certifying as to the period that the employee has
been unable to resume his duties as a direct result of the in-
jury; and in the case of death, an additional certificate of such
physician that death has resulted from said injury. If the
County Commissioners shall fail or refuse to direct the Treas-
urer to pay or the Treasurer shall fail or refuse to pay unto
any employee or personal representative of a deceased employee
the relief money provided under this Act, suit may be brought
by him, and in such suit the County Commissioners of the
proper county shall be made defendant and shall defend such
suit as other cases and have power to compromise the same in
the exercise of a just discretion, and if not compromised the
Court shall determine whether such relief money ought to be
payable under this Act, but any judgment rendered in such
cases shall only be payable out of the Relief Fund; provided,
that any such suit shall be brought by the employee within
twelve months from the date of the injury and by the personal
representative within six months from the date of the death of
the deceased employee, and failure to commence such suits
within said periods shall forfeit all right or claim of said par-
ties to any payments out of said fund.

SEC. 6. Upon application by a personal representative for
the relief money contemplated by this Act, for the sustenance
of the indigent dependent or dependents of a deceased employee,
the County Commissioners shall determine who the depend
ents are, and the relative claims and necessities of each for
shares of the relief money payable, whether the age, habits and
prudence of such dependents, if any, are such as to render
them fit persons to receive the principal of such relief money
as may be apportioned by the County Commissioners to any
dependent, and if not, then the County Commissioners may
order such relief money, paid in limited parts, periodically,
until the portion and interest thereon of such dependent shall
become exhausted. In the case of the dependents consisting
of a mother and infant children said Commissioners may, after
adequate investigation, if they shall deem it of advantage to
the dependents, order not more than seven hundred and fifty
dollars of such relief money invested in a home for such de-
pendents, the title to be in fee, and to be invested in the per-
sonal representatives as trustee for the benefit of such de-
pendents, and after such dependents shall arrive at the age of
twenty-one years, or marry, then for the benefit of the mother
exclusively; and such Commissioners may pass such orders in
relation to the sale, lease or mortgage of said home as may
from time to time become expedient, with a view to effectuate
the relief hereby intended for indigent dependents and to pre-
vent dependents from suffering and want, and to conserve