114 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 92

compensation specified in this Article; and in order to be
informed as to the continued financial responsibility of any
such employer the Commission may require reports from him
annually or at any such other times as the Commission may
deem necessary or advisable, and may examine such employer
under oath or make such other examination of his business as
the Commission may determine. If he should fail to furnish
such satisfactory proof, or give bond, or deposit such securi-
ties as required by the Commission, or if he should at any
time fail to render satisfactory reports to the Commission or
otherwise satisfy the Commission of its continued financial
ability to pay the compensation himself, he shall be subject
to the provisions of the first paragraph of this section of this
Article, and shall be required by the Commission to insure
as provided in the first paragraph of said this section, unless
he, at once, insures voluntarily as provided in the second
paragraph of this section.

Any employer, subject to the provisions of this Article, who,
after November 1st, nineteen hundred and fourteen, fails or
refuses to submit to said Commission, as provided in the next
succeeding paragraphs, the method he desires to adopt for
assuring compensation, or who shall fail to secure insurance
by one of such methods, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred nor more
than five thousand dollars. Any fine levied against any em-
ployer failing or refusing to secure insurance as required by
this Article shall be paid into the State Treasury and credited
to the State Accident Fund, and be used for the payment, in
whole or in part, of any award made against said employer
by the State Industrial Accident Commission. All disburse-
ments shall be made in the same manner as other monies of
the State Accident Fund are disbursed. Any part of said fine
not required for the payment of an award as herein provided
shall be transferred to the General Treasury. The Court may,
in its discretion, remit any such penalty, provided the em-
ployer in default assures the compensation as provided in this
section; and provided, further, that he has paid or secured
to be paid any compensation or other benefits under this
Article which may have been awarded against him.

Any such employer who may wish to adopt any one of the
methods mentioned in the preceding paragraphs for assuring
the payment of compensation to his employees and their de-
pendents, shall first submit to the State Industrial Accident
Commission the method he wishes to adopt. The said Com-
mission may approve or reject the method proposed. If re-
jected, the employer may submit another method authorized
under this Article. The said Commission may from time to
time revise or alter its decision in approving the election of