HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1005

tural service, including the threshing or harvesting of crops,
or who, at the time of the accident, are engaged in service inci-
dental to and in connection with agricultural pursuits or de-
velopments, whether the employer be the farmer or other per-
son undertaking or contracting with the farmer to perform
any such agricultural service, pursuit or development. This
Article shall not apply to cutters of cord wood or fire wood,
farm laborers, domestic servants, nor to country blacksmiths,
wheelwrights or similar rural employments, unless these em-
ployments elect to come under this Article as provided in Sec-
tion 33, nor in any case where the accident occurred before
this Act takes effect, nor to casual employees or any employees
who are employed wholly without the State. But for all pur-
poses of this Article, casual, occasional or incidental employ-
ments outside of this State by the Maryland employer of an
employee or employees regularly employed by said employer
within this State shall be construed to be employment within
this State; provided, however, if an employee or the depend-
ents of an employee shall receive compensation or damages
under the laws of any other State, nothing herein contained
shall be construed so as to permit a total compensation for the
same injury greater than is provided for in this Article.

(4) "Employment" includes employment only in a trade,
business or occupation carried on by the employer for pecun-
iary gain.

(5) "Compensation" means the money allowance payable to
an employee or to his dependents as provided for in this Ar-
ticle, and includes funeral benefits provided therein.

(6) "Injury", "Personal Injury" and "Accidental Personal
Injury" means only accidental injuries arising oat of and in
the course of employment and such disease or infection as may
naturally result therefrom, and the occupational diseases speci-
fied and enumerated in Section 32A of this Article.

(7) "Death" when mentioned as a basis for the right to
compensation means only death resulting from such injury.

(8) "Average weekly wages" for the purposes of this Ar-
ticle shall be taken to mean the average weekly wages earned
by an employee when working on full time.

(9) "State Accident Fund" means the State Insurance Fund
provided for in Section 16 of this Article.

(10) The term "child" and "children" shall include post-
humous children and adopted children, whether members of
the deceased employee's household at the time of his accident
or death or not, and shall also include step-children, illegiti-
mate children and other children, if such step-children, illegi-
timate children and other children were members of the house-
hold of the decedent at the time of the accident or death and