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22. If an employer shall default in any payment re-
quired to be made by him to the State Accident Fund, the
amount due from him may be collected by civil action
against him in the name of the State of Maryland, and the
Commission, whenever it may deem it necessary, shall
certify to the Attorney General of the State the names and
residences, or places of business, of any employer known
to the Commission to be in default for such payment or
payments, and the amount due from such employer, and
it shall then be the duty of the Attorney General forthwith
to bring or cause to be brought against such employer a
civil action in the proper Court for the collection of such,
amount so due, and the same, when collected, shall be paid
into the State Accident Fund, and the policy which the
State Accident Fund has issued to such employer shall
cease to be in effect from the date such certificate has been
made to the Attorney General of the State, and shall not
again be in effect until all premiums due by such employer
have been paid into the State Accident Fund. Any account
which has been certified to the Attorney General for col-
lection may be settled or compromised when it shall appear
to the Attorney General, the Comptroller of the State and
the Chairman of the State Industrial Accident Commission
that such settlement or compromise is to the best interest
of the State Accident Fund, and any account may be
charged from the books of the State Accident Fund when
it shall appear to the Attorney General, the Comptroller of
the State and the Chairman of the State Industrial Acci-
dent Commission that such account is uncollectible.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall
take effect on June 1, 1935.

Approved May 17, 1935.

CHAPTER 382.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
693 of Article 16 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Montgomery County, "
sub-title "Police, " as amended by Chapter 375 of the Acts
of 1931, increasing the number of police sergeants.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 693 of Article 16 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title