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employments in this State, and providing for the creation
of a State Industrial Accident Commission, and defining its
powers, and amending said Section 62 of said Chapter 800
of said Acts of 1914, by adding after sub-section 11, of said
Section 62, of said Act, sub-section 12, to read as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 62 of Chapter 800 of the Acts of Assembly
of Maryland, of the year 1914, be and the same is hereby
amended by adding an additional sub-section to said Section
62, of said Act, to immediately follow sub-section 11, of said
Section 62, and to read as follows:

12. "Mining" means all underground workings by shaft,
drift, slope or otherwise, for the securing, removing and taking
out from under the ground coal, iron ore, clays, and all other
minerals and mineral substances, found in and under the earth,
and shall mean all work done by any miner or employe working
in and about said mines in said shafts, slopes, headings, tun-
nels, rooms and other subterranean places therein, for the pur-
poses of obtaining and removing therefrom all such minerals and
mineral substances, and the benefits of this Act shall be extended
to any employe, or in case of his death, to his dependent rela-
tives, otherwise entitled, who shall be killed or injured while so
working or employed therein, and such mine worker shall be
deemed to be wholly employed in the State of Maryland, and en-
titled to the benefits of this Act, if the tipple, mouth or principal
mine entrance in and about which he works, is situated in this
State, notwithstanding such shaft, heading, slope or other
subterranean tunnel may extend underground into an adjoin-
ing State, and notwithstanding such mine worker so employed
in this State may be killed or injured while working, in said
mine beyond the lines of this State, and within the lines of an
adjoining State.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the first day of June, 1916.

Approved March 21st, 1916.

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT to repeal Section 157 of Article 22 of the Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Washington County, " sub-
title "Hagerstown, " and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments.