1124 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 461

nent total disability shall be determined in accordance
with the facts.

(b) 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 em-
ployment, or by a separate written instrument, any right to
compensation to which he would be entitled because of the
pre-existing permanent partial disability, in the event of
subsequent accidental injury, and in such cases the em-
ployee so suffering an additional accidental injury, shall
be entitled to the compensation 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 employee with know-
ledge of its contents prior to the time of the accident upon
which the claim is based.

(c) The compensation for the foregoing specific injury
shall be paid in addition to, and consecutively with, the
compensation hereinafter provided in Sub-section (2) of
this section. If any employee dies from any cause or causes
not compensable under this Article, the right to any com-
pensation payable under this sub-section, unpaid at the
date of his death, shall survive to his surviving dependants
as the Commission may determine, if there be such sur^
viving dependants, and if there be none such, then to his
wife and children under twenty-one years of age if there
was, at the time of his death, a legal obligation on the part
of said employee to support his wife, and if there was no
such obligation, then to his children under twenty-one, if
any, alone.

(2) (Temporary Total Disability. ) In case of tem-
porary 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 maxi-
mum of twenty-eight dollars per week, and not less than
a minimum of twelve dollars per week, unless the em-
ployee's established weekly wages are less than twelve
dollars per week at the time of the injury, in which event
he shall receive compensation equal to his full wages; but
in no case to continue more than six years from the date
of the injury or to exceed forty-five hundred dollars in the
aggregate.

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