490 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 278

of Section 13, Sections 14 and 19 of Article 95A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), as said Article
was enacted by Chapter 1 of the Acts of the Extraordinary
Session of December, 1936, and amended by Chapters 314
and 527 of the Acts of 1937 and by Chapter 2 of the Acts of
the Special Session of 1937, and to add sub-section (d) to
Section 7, sub-section (e) to Section 9, and to add Section
19A, to follow immediately after Section 19 of said Article,
amending the Unemployment Compensation Law generally.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 3, 4, 5, sub-section (b) of Section 6, sub-
section (c) of Section 7, sub-section (k) of Section 11, Section
12, sub-section (a) of Section 13, Sections 14 and 19 of Article
95A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as said Article was
enacted by Chapter 1 of the Acts of the Extraordinary Session
of December, 1936, and amended by Chapters 314 and 527 of
the Acts of 1937 and by Chapter 2 of the Acts of the Special
Session of 1937, be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, that sub-section (d) be and it is hereby
added to Section 7, that sub-section (e) be and it is hereby
added to Section 9, and that a new section be and it is hereby
added to said Article, said new section to be known as Section
19A, to follow immediately after Section 19 of said Article,
and all to read as follows:

Benefits.

3 (a). Payment of Benefits. Twenty-four months after the
date when contributions first accrue under this Act, benefits
shall become payable from the fund; Provided, that wages
earned for services defined in Section 19 (g) 7(C) of this Act,
irrespective of when performed, shall not be included for pur-
poses of determining eligibility, under Section 4(e), or the
weekly benefit amount, under sub-section (b) (1) of this
section, for the purposes of any benefit year commencing on
or after July 1, 1939, nor shall any benefits with respect to
unemployment occurring on and after July 1, 1939, be payable
under sub-section (c) of this section on the basis of such
wages. All benefits shall be paid through re-employment offices,
in accordance with such regulations as the Board may pre-
scribe.

(b) (1) Weekly Benefit Amount. An individual's "weekly-
benefit amount" shall be the amount appearing in Column B
in the table in this sub-section on the line on which, in Column
A of such table, there appear the total wages earned by such
individual for insured work in that calendar quarter of his
base period in which such total wages were highest.