ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  587

monies so appropriated and expended in conducting and ad-
ministering the State Accident Fund for the calendar year
ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen,
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 Article, 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 pre-
ceding calendar year, including the amount chargeable to the
State Accident Fund under the preceding paragraph of this
section. The Commission shall then calculate and determine
the percentage which the total amount of such salaries and ex-
penses, other than the amount chargeable to the State Accident
Fund, bore to the total payroll, ascertain as aforesaid for that
year, of all the employers of this State subject to the provisions
of this Article; and the percentage so calculated and deter-
mined 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 aggregate payroll of employers insured there-
with, as a special tax for the maintenance of the State Indus-
trial Accident Commission, other than for conducting and ad-
ministering 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 insur-
ance carriers and self-insurers shall not exceed one hundred
and ten 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 assessed
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. And the
Commission shall be and is hereby clothed with such power and
authority to examine payrolls and require reports from em-
ployers and insurance carriers as may be reasonable and neces-
sary to carry out the provisions of this section and to adopt
rules and regulations in regard thereto.