1078 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 627

tally 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, grandfather,
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 depend-
ents, 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 resi-
dents, except that at any time within one year after an
accident resulting in death the Commission may, in its dis-
cretion, convert any payments thereafter to become due to
such beneficiaries into 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.

Non-resident alien dependents may be officially represented
by the consular officers of the nation of which such alien or
aliens may be citizens or subjects, and in such cases the con-
sular officers shall have the right to receive, for distribution
to such non-resident alien dependents, all compensation
awarded hereunder, and the receipt of such consular officers
shall be a full discharge of all sums paid to and received by
them.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1941.

Approved April 23, 1941.

CHAPTER 627.

(House Bill 54)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section
(3) of Section 80 of Article 101 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Workmen's Compensation",