768 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 456

dent Fund are authorized, the whole amount so chargable to
the State Accident Fund to be transferred from said fund
by the treasurer to the State Treasury to reimburse the State
for the monies so appropriated and expended in conducting
and administering the State Accident Fund for the calendar
year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven-
teen, and for each calendar year thereafter.

As soon as practicable after January 1st, nineteen hundred
and eighteen, and annually thereafter, the Commission shall
ascertain as fully and accurately as possible the total payroll
of all the employers of this State, subject to the provisions of
this Act, for the preceding calendar year, whether insured
in the State Accident Fund; any stock company, or mutual
association, or self-insured, and shall also calculate and ascer-
tain the amount paid by the State for administrative expenses
of the State Industrial Accident Commission during said
preceding calendar year, including the amount charge-
able to the State Accident Fund under the preced-
ing paragraph of this section. The Commission shall then
calculate and determine the percentage which the total amount
of such salaries and expenses, other than the amount charge-
able to the State Accident Fund, bore to the total payroll,
ascertained as aforesaid for that year, of all the employers
of this State subject to the provisions of this Act; and the
percentage so calculated and determined shall be assessed
against all such employers carrying their own insurance in
proportion to their several payrolls, and all insurance carriers,
including the State Accident Fund, in proportion to the aggre-
gate payroll of employers insured therewith, as a special tax
for the maintenance of the State Industrial Accident Com-
mission, other than for conducting and administering the
State Accident Fund, for the calendar year ending December
thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for each
calendar year thereafter; provided, however, that the total
amount to be assessed against and paid by such insurance car-
riers and self-insurers shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars
for any one year.

Payment of said taxes may be enforced by civil action in
the name of the State of Maryland, and the amounts so assess-
ed and collected by the Commission shall be paid into the
State Treasury to reimburse the State for this portion of the
expense of administering the Workmen's Compensation Law.