ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 765

Any such employer who may wish to adopt any one of the
methods mentioned in the preceding paragraphs for assuring
the payment of compensation to his employees and their de-
pendents, shall first submit to the State Industrial Accident
Commission the method he wishes to adopt. The said Com-
mission may approve or reject the method proposed. If re-
jected, the employer may submit another method authorized
under this Act. The said Commission may from time to time
revise or alter its decision in approving the election of an
employer to adopt any one of the methods of assuring pay-
ment of the compensation as provided for in this Act, if such
action is reasonably necessary to secure and safeguard such
payments to employees or for the diminishing and prevention
of accidents. Any action of the Commission for the purpose
of diminishing or preventing accidents shall not apply to pub-
lic service corporations under the jurisdiction of the Public
Service Commission. Any decision of said Commission under
this Section or Section 14 of this Act may be reviewed by writ
of certiorari in the Circuit Court for the county in which
the employer may reside or in any of the Common Law Courts
of Baltimore City, if the employer resides in Baltimore City.

Any employer, subject to the provisions of this Act, who
fails or refuses to insure voluntarily the payment of the com-
pensation specified in this Act to his employees and their
dependents through one of the methods of assurance of pay-
ment, mentioned in the second paragraph of this section of
this Act, or fails to furnish satisfactory proof to the Commis-
sion of his financial ability to pay such compensation himself,
or give bond or deposit securities as aforesaid, shall at any
time after November 1st, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be
compelled by the Commission to insure to his employees and
their dependents the payment of the compensation specified
in this Act, by paying to the State Treasurer for the use and
benefit of the State Accident Fund, hereinafter authorized to
be established, the premium or taxes levied and published by
the Commission for the group of employments, industries or
works to which said employer belongs. And any such em-
ployer who fails or refuses to so insure within ten days, after
being ordered, by the Commission to do so, shall be liable
to the State in an amount equal to the premium or taxes re-
quired of him for six months' insurance in the. State Acci-
dent Fund, as a penalty, which, together with his premium