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NON-LIABILITY OF STATE.

18. Benefits shall be deemed to be due and payable
under this Act only to the extent provided in this Act and
to the extent that moneys are available therefor to the
credit of the unemployment compensation fund, and neither
the State nor the Board shall be liable for any amount in
excess of such sums.

DEFINITIONS.

19. As used in this Act, unless the context clearly re-
quires otherwise:

(a) (1) "Annual pay roll" means the total amount of
wages payable by an employer (regardless of the time of
payment) for employment during a calendar year.

(2) "Average annual pay roll" means that average of
the annual pay rolls of any employer for the last three or
five preceding calendar years, whichever average is higher.

(b) "Benefits" means the money payments payable to
an individual, as provided in this Act, with respect to his
unemployment.

(c) "Board" means the Board of Public Works of
Maryland.

(d) "Contributions" means the money payments to the
State unemployment compensation fund required by this
Act.

(e) "Employing unit" means any individual or type of
organization, including any partnership, association, trust,
estate, joint-stock company, insurance company or corpo-
ration, whether domestic or foreign, or the receiver, trus-
tee in bankruptcy, trustee or successor thereof, or the legal
representative of a deceased person, which has or sub-
sequent to January 1, 1935, had in its employ one or more
individuals performing services for it within this State.
All individuals performing services within this State for
any employing unit which maintains two or more separate
establishments within this State shall be deemed to be
employed by a single employing unit for all the purposes
of this Act. Whenever any employing unit contracts with
or has under it any contractor or sub-contractor for any
employment which is part of its usual trade, occu-
pation, profession, or business, unless the employing unit
as well as each such contractor or sub-contractor is an em-