830 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 504

20. The Commissioners of the State Accident Fund may
establish and require all employers insured in the State
Accident Fund to install and maintain a uniform payroll.
The Commissioners shall ascertain and establish the amount
to be paid into and out of the State Accident Fund, issue
proper receipts for moneys received, and certificates for
benefits accrued and accruing from the State Accident
Fund.

22. If an employer shall default in any payment re-
quired to be made by him to the State Accident Fund, the
amount due from him may be collected by civil action
against him in the name of the State of Maryland, and the
Commissioners of the State Accident Fund, whenever
they may deem it necessary, shall certify to the Attor-
ney General of the State the names and residences, or
places of business, of any employer known to the
Commissioners to be in default for such payment
or payments, and the amount due from such em-
ployer, and it shall then be the duty of the Attorney Gen-
eral forthwith to bring or cause to be brought against such
employer a civil action in the proper court for the collec-
tion of such amount so due, and the same, when collected,
shall be paid into the State Accident Fund, and the policy
which the State Accident Fund has issued to such em-
ployer shall cease to be in effect from the date such cer-
tificate has been made to the Attorney General of the State,
and shall not again be in effect until all premiums due by
such employer have been paid into the State Accident Fund.
Any account which has been certified to the Attorney Gen-
eral for collection may be settled or compromised when it
shall appear to the Attorney General, the Comptroller of
the State and the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the
Commissioners of the State Accident Fund that such set-
tlement or compromise is to the best interest of the State
Accident Fund, and any account may be charged from
the books of the State Accident Fund when it shall ap-
pear to the Attorney General, the Comptroller of the
State and the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Commis-
sioners of the State Accident Fund that such account is
uncollectible.

23. Ten per centum of the premiums collected from
employers insured in the State Accident Fund shall be set
aside by the Commissioners of the State Accident
Fund for the creation of a surplus until such sur-
plus shall amount to the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and
thereafter five per centum of such premiums until such
time as in the judgment of said Commissioners such sur-