872                          LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 340

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 19 of Article 101 of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, Edition of 1924,
entitled "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Fund, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,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:

19. It shall be the duty of the Commission to classify any
industries subject to this Article mentioned or not mentioned
which are insured in the State Accident Fund. And the Com-
mission shall have power on or before the first day of January
of each year to reclassify such industries, or oftener, if in the
opinion of the Commission the same should be deemed just
and advantageous; or to create additional classifications with
respect to their respective degrees of hazard and determine the
risk of the different classes, and fix the rates of premium for
each class, according to the risks of the same sufficiently large
to guarantee a workmen's compensation fund from year to
year. It shall be the duty of the Commission in determining
the rates, in order to create a fund sufficiently large to guaran-
tee a workmen's compensation fund from year to year to also
reclassify from time to time the industries or occupations, in
order that there may be a flexible adjustment of the rates as
the hazard fluctuates, and to use all means in their power
through the rate adjustment to lessen the opportunities for
injuries to the workmen. The classification so determined and
the rates of premium established shall be applicable for such
year unless a reclassification should, in the opinion of the Com-
mission, necessitate a change of rate within such year; and
based on each one hundred dollars of the gross annual payroll
of each employer in any class; provided also, that for the pur-
pose of this sub-title, the pay of the employee partly within and
partly without the State shall be deemed to be such proportion
of the total pay of such employee as his service within the
State bears to his services outside the State.

The Commission shall also have power to establish and fix
minimum premiums to be paid by any employer insured or
insuring in the State Accident Fund, and to require the pay-
ment of estimated premiums in advance.

The Commission, in its administration of the State Acci-
dent Fund, shall have the power to declare dividends to the
subscribers or policyholders in the fund, either in the form
of cash refunders or credits, when the financial condition of the