586                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 213

1924, title "Workmen's Compensation, " sub-title "State
Accident Fund, " pertaining to the administrative expenses
of the State Industrial Accident Commission.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 27 of Article 101 of the 1929 Supple-
ment to the Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of
Maryland, Edition of 1924, title "Workmen's Compensation, " sub-title "State Accident Fund, " be, and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as
follows:

27. The entire expense of conducting and administering
the State Accident Fund, as likewise all other expenses of the
State Industrial Accident Commission, shall be paid in the
first instance by the State out of the monies appropriated for
the maintenance of the State Industrial Accident Commission
and the payment of the salaries and expenses of said Com-
mission and its officers and employees. In the month of Jan-
uary, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and annually thereafter
in such month the Commission shall ascertain the just expense
incurred by the Commission during the preceding calendar
year, in conducting and in the administration of the State
Accident Fund, by including the salaries of the Superintendent
of said fund and such other employees of the Commission
whose services were rendered exclusively to said fund, and all
other expenses incurred exclusively for said fund; and the
amount of such salaries and expenses shall be chargeable to
the State Accident Fund. And if there be employees of the
Commission, other than the members themselves and the secre-
tary, whose time is devoted partly to the general work of the
Commission and partly to the work of the State Accident
Fund, and in case there are any other expenses which are
incurred jointly on behalf of the general work of the Com-
mission and the State Accident Fund, an equitable apportion-
ment of the salaries of such employees and expenses, shall be
made by the Commission and the part thereof which is appli-
cable to the State Accident Fund shall likewise be chargeable
thereto; and the Commission shall authorize, in the same
manner as other disbursements from the State Accident Fund
are authorized, the whole amount so chargeable to the State
Accident Fund to be transferred from said fund by the treas-
urer to the State Treasury to reimburse the State for the