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sion, start proceedings to enforce the liability of such
other person, the injured employee, or in case of death, his
dependents, may enforce the liability of such other person
provided, however, that if damages are recovered the in-
jured employee or in case of death his dependents may
first retain therefrom the expenses and costs of action
incurred by the said employee or in case of death his
dependents, and the employer, insurance company, as-
sociation or the State Accident Fund, as the case may be,
shall be reimbursed for the compensation already paid or
awarded and any amount or amounts paid for medical or
surgical services, funeral expenses or for any of the other
purposes enumerated in Section 49 of this Article, and the
balance in excess of these items shall enure to the injured
employee, or in case of death, to his dependents, and the
amount thus received by the injured employee or in case
of death by his dependents shall be in lieu of any award
that might otherwise have been made thereafter in the
same case under the provisions of this Article and said
case shall thereupon be deemed to have been finally settled
and closed.

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

Approved April 28, 1941.

CHAPTER 528.
(Senate Bill 400)

AN ACT to authorize the Board of Public Works to apply
any excess receipts above a specified surplus for the
fiscal years ending September 30, 1941 and September
30, 1942 to the State debt and to reduce the State Real
Estate Tax proportionately for such fiscal years.

WHEREAS, real estate now bears a heavy and dispro-
portionate share of the tax burden in this State; and

WHEREAS, the State should therefore help to alleviate
this condition by reducing the State real estate tax when-
ever possible; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That if the revenues derived from the State
Income Tax and other sources of revenue, including the