WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1129

per centum of the average weekly wages, not to exceed,
however, a maximum of Twenty Dollars per week, and not
less than a minimum of Twelve Dollars per week unless
the deceased employee's established weekly wages were
less than Twelve Dollars per week at the time of injury,
in which event the compensation shall be an amount equal
to the average weekly wages, and to continue for no more
than five hundred weeks after the date of death and not
to amount to more than a maximum of Seventy-five Hun-
dred ($7, 500. 00) Dollars nor less than a minimum of One
Thousand ($1, 000. 00) Dollars.

(c) If there are no wholly dependent persons at the
time of the death, but are partly dependent persons, those
partly dependent shall receive compensation as follows:
The weekly payments to such dependents shall be in
amount not exceeding sixty-six and two-thirds per centum
of the average weekly wages or Twenty ($20. 00) Dollars
per week, but may, in the discretion of the Commission, be
for a less amount per week and to continue for all or such
portion of the period of 416 weeks, after the date of death,
as the Commission in each case may determine, and not
to amount to more than a maximum of Three Thousand
Dollars.

(d) In all cases, questions of dependency, in whole,
or in part, shall be determined by the Commission in ac-
cordance with the facts in each particular case existent at
the time of the injury resulting in death of such employee.

(e) The right to any compensation payable to any de-
pendent and unpaid at the date of death of any such de-
pendent shall survive to and be vested in the surviving
dependents as the Commission may determine, if there
be such surviving dependents, and if there be none such,
then the compensation shall cease.

(f) 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 residents, except that at any time within one year
after an accident resulting in death the Commission may,
in its discretion, convert any payments thereafter to be-
come due to such beneficiaries 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.

(g) 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