ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  915

thousand dollars, nor less than a minimum of one thousand
dollars.

If there are no wholly dependent persons at the time of the
death, but are partly dependent persons, those partly dependent
shall receive compensation as follows: The weekly payments
to such dependents shall be in amount not exceeding sixty-six
and two-thirds per centum of the average weekly wages or
($18. 00) eighteen dollars per week, but may, in the discretion
of the Commission, be for a less amount per week and to con-
tinue for all or such portion of the period of 416 weeks, after
the date of the injury, as the Commission in each case may
determine, and not to amount to more than a maximum of
three thousand dollars.

The following persons shall be presumed to be wholly de-
pendent for support upon a deceased employee: A wife or
invalid husband ("invalid" meaning one physically or mental-
ly incapacitated from earning), a child or children under the
age of sixteen years (or over said age if physically or mentally
incapacitated from earning) living with or dependent upon
the parent at the time of the injury or death.

In all other cases, questions of dependency, in whole or in
part, shall be determined in accordance with the facts in each
particular case existing at the time of the injury resulting in
death of such employee, but no person shall be considered as
dependent unless such person be a father, mother, grand-
father, grandmother, stepchild or grandchild, or brother or
sister of the deceased, employee, including those otherwise
specified in this section.

The right to any compensation payable to any dependent
and unpaid at the date of death of any such dependent shall
survive to and be vested in the surviving dependents as the
Commission may determine, if there be such surviving de-
pendents, and if there be none such, then the compensation
shall cease.

Compensation under this Article to alien dependent widows,
children and parents, not residents of the United States, shall
be the same in amount as is provided in each case for residents,
except that at any time within one year after an accident
resulting in death the Commission may, in its discretion, con-
vert any payments thereafter to become due to such bene-
ficiaries into a lump sum payment, not in any case to exceed
twenty-four hundred dollars, by paying a sum equal to three-
fourths of the then value of such payments.