122 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 126

Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Work-
men's Compensation", sub-title "Claims and Compensation;
Benefits", as said sub-sections were amended by Chapter 626
of the Acts of 1941, increasing the compensation for certain
injuries.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sub-sections (1) and (2) of Section 48 of Article
101 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title
"Workmen's Compensation", sub-title "Claims and Compensa-
tion; Benefits", as said sub-sections were amended by Chapter
626 of the Acts of 1941, be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

48. (1) PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY. In case of total
disability, adjudged to be permanent, sixty-six and two-thirds
per centum of the average weekly wages shall be paid to the
employee during the continuance of such total disability, not
to exceed a maximum of twenty-three dollars per week and not
less than a minimum of ten dollars per week, unless the em-
ployee's established weekly wages are less than ten dollars per
week at the time of the injury, in which event he shall receive
compensation in an amount equal to his average weekly wages,
but not to exceed a total of $7, 500. Loss, or loss of use of both
hands, or both arms, or both feet or both legs, or both eyes, or of
any two thereof, shall, in the absence of conclusive proof to the
contrary, constitute permanent total disability. In all other
cases permanent total disability shall be determined in accord-
ance with the facts.

Whenever any person who has suffered the loss, or loss of
use of a hand, arm, foot, leg or eye, shall enter into a contract
of employment, it shall be permissible for the employee to
waive in writing, either in the contract of employment, or by
a separate written instrument, any right to compensation to
which he would be entitled because of the pre-existing per-
manent partial disability, in the event of subsequent acci-
dental injury, and in such cases the employee so suffering an
additional accidental injury, shall be entitled to the compen-
sation for the disability resulting solely from such additional
accidental injury. No such waiver shall be effective unless
the pre-existing permanent partial disability shall be plainly
described therein, nor unless the same be executed by the em-
ployee with knowledge of its contents prior to the time of the
accident upon which the claim is based.

(2) TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY. In case of temporary
total disability, sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the
average weekly wages shall be paid to the employee during
the continuance thereof, but not to exceed a maximum of