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

(6) "Injury", "Personal Injury" and "Accidental Personal
Injury" means only accidental injuries arising out of and in
the course of employment and such disease or infection as may
naturally result therefrom, including frost-bite and sun-stroke
resulting from weather conditions, and the occupational dis-
eases specified and enumerated in Section 34 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 Arti-
cle 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 stepchildren,
illegitimate children and other children, if such stepchildren,
illegitimate children and other children were members of
the household of the decedent at the time of the accident
or death and had received contributions toward their support
from such deceased employee during any part of the six
months immediately preceding the accident or death.

(11) "Beneficiary" means a husband, wife, child, children
or dependents of an employee in whom shall vest a right to
receive payments under this Article.

(12) "Mining" means all underground workings by shaft,
drift, slope or otherwise, for the securing, removing and tak-
ing out from under the ground, coal, iron ore, clays and al]
other minerals and mineral substances, found in and under
the earth, and shall mean all work done by any miner or
employee working in and about said mines in said shafts,
slopes, headings, tunnels, rooms and other subterranean places
therein, for the purpose of obtaining and removing therefrom
all such minerals and mineral substances, and the benefits of
this Article shall be extended to any employee, or in case of
his death, to his dependent relatives, otherwise entitled, who
shall be killed or injured while so working or employed
therein, and such mine-worker shall be deemed to be wholly
employed in the State of Maryland, and entitled to the bene-
fits of this Article, if the tipple, mouth or principal mine en-
trance in and about which he works, is situated in this State,
notwithstanding such shaft, heading, slope or other subter-
ranean tunnel may extend underground into an adjoining
State, and notwithstanding such mine-worker so employed in