914                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 363

in the discretion of the Commission, for not less than ten
weeks nor more than one hundred weeks, as the Commission
may fix, in each case having due regard to the character of
the mutilation and disfigurement as compared with mutilation
and injury hereinbefore specifically provided for.

4. Temporary Partial Disability. In case of temporary
partial disability, except the particular cases mentioned in
Subdivision Three of this section, an injured employee shall
receive fifty per centum of the difference between his average
weekly wages and his wage-earning capacity thereafter in the
same employment or otherwise, if less than before the accident,
but not to exceed twenty dollars per week, during the con-
tinuance of such partial disability, but not in excess of three
thousand five hundred dollars, except. as otherwise provided
in this Article.

Whenever it shall appear than any disability from which any
employee is suffering following an accidental injury, is due
in part to such injury, and in part to a pre-existing disease or
infirmity, the Commission shall determine the proportion of
such disability which is reasonably attributable to the injury
and the proportion thereof which is reasonably attributable to
the pre-existing disease or infirmity, and such employee shall
be entitled to compensation for that proportion of his disability
which is reasonably attributable solely to the accident, and
shall not be entitled to compensation for that proportion of his
disability which is reasonably attributable to the pre-existing
disease or infirmity.

In case the injury causes death within the period of three
years the benefits shall be in the amounts and to the persons
following:

If there be no dependents, the disbursements shall be limited
to the expense provided for in Section 37 hereof.

If there are wholly dependent persons at the time of death,
the payment shall be sixty-six and two-thirds per cent, of the
average weekly wages, not to exceed, however, a maximum of
eighteen dollars per week, and not less than a minimum of
($8) eight dollars per week, unless the deceased employee's
established weekly wages were less than eight dollars per week
at the time of injury, in which event the compensation shall
be an amount equal to the average weekly wages, and to con-
tinue for the remainder of the period between the date of
death and four hundred and sixteen weeks after the date of
injury, and not to amount to more than a maximum of five