PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1459

SEC. 52. No employer or employe who are subject to the
provisions of this Act shall exempt himself from the burden or
waive the benefit of this Act by any contract, agreement, rule or
regulation, and any such contract, agreement, rule or regulation
shall be pro tanto void. No agreement by such employe to
pay any portion of the premium paid by such employer shall
be valid, and any employer who deducts any portion of such
premium from the wages or salary of any employe entitled
to the benefits of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than two
hundred dollars for each offense.

SEC. 53. The powers and jurisdiction of the Commission
over each case shall be continuing and it may from time to time
make such modifications or change with respect to former find-
ings or orders with respect thereto as in its opinion may be
justified.

SEC. 54. If an employe shall be injured because of the ab-
sence of any safeguard or protection required by the Com-
mission, the employer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
liable to a fine of not less than $50.00 or more than $500.00 to
be paid into the State Accident Fund.

SEC. 55. Any employer, employe, beneficiary or person feel-
ing aggrieved by any decision of the Commission affecting his
interests under this Act may have the same reviewed by a pro-
ceeding in the nature of an appeal and initiated in the Circuit
Court of the County or in the Common Law Courts of Baltimore
City having jurisdiction over the place where the accident oc-
curred or over the person appealing from such decision, and
the Court shall determine whether the Commission has justly
considered all the facts concerning injury, whether it has ex-
ceeded the powers granted it by the Act, whether it has mis-
construed the law and facts applicable in the case decided. If
the Court shall determine that the Commission has acted within
its powers and has correctly construed the law and facts, the
decision of the Commission shall be confirmed, otherwise it shall
be reversed or modified. Upon the hearing of such an appeal
the Court shall, upon motion of either party filed with the Clerk
of the Court according to the practice in civil cases, submit to
a jury any question of fact involved in such case. The pro-
ceedings in every such an appeal shall be informal and sum-
mary, but full opportunity to be heard shall be had before judg-
ment is pronounced. No such appeal shall be entertained un-