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Commission may determine, if there be such surviving depend-
ents, and if there be none such, then the compensation shall
cease.

Compensation under this Article to alien dependent widows,
children and parents, not residents of the United States, shall
be the same in amount as is provided in each case for resi-
dents, except that at any time within one year after an accident
resulting in death the Commission may, in its discretion, con-
vert any payments thereafter to become due to such benefi-
ciaries into lump sum payment, not in any case to exceed
twenty-four hundred dollars, by paying a sum equal to three-
fourths of the then value of such payments.

Non-resident alien dependents may be officially represented
by the consular officers of the nation of which such alien or
aliens may be citizens or subjects, and in such cases the con-
sular officers shall have the right to receive, for distribution
to such non-resident alien dependents, all compensation
awarded hereunder, and the receipt of such consular officers
shall be a full discharge of all sums paid to and received by
them.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall tak6
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved March 24, 1945.

CHAPTER 336.
(House Bill 126)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments. Sub-section
(3) of Section 48 of Article 101 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1943 Supplement), title "Workmen's Compen-
sation", sub-title "Claims and Compensation; Benefits",
increasing certain payments and further defining hernia.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sub-section (3) of Section 48 of Article 101 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943 Supplement), title
"Workmen's Compensation", sub-title "Claims and Compen-
sation; Benefits", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

48. (3). (Permanent Partial Disability). In case of dis-
ability partial in character but permanent in quality, the
compensation shall be sixty-six and two-thirds per centum