THEODORE R. MCKELDIN. GOVERNOR 751
(4) "Employment" includes employment only in a trade,
business or occupation carried on by the employer for
pecuniary gain.
(5) "Compensation" means the money allowance pay-
able to an employee or to his dependents as provided for
in this Article, and includes funeral benefits provided
therein.
(6) "Injury", "Personal Injury", "ACCIDENTAL IN-
JURY" and "Accidental Personal Injury" means only [ac-
cidental] injuries arising out of and in the course of
employment and such occupational disease or infection as
may naturally result therefrom, including frost-bite and
sun-stroke resulting from weather condition, [and the oc-
cupational diseases specified and enumerated in Section 21
of this Article. ] and includes an injury caused by the wilful
or negligent act of a third person directed against an
employee because IN THE COURSE of his employment.
(7) "Death" when mentioned as a basis for the right
to compensation means only death resulting from such
injury.
(8) "Average weekly wages" for the purposes of this
Article shall be taken to mean the average weekly wages
earned by an employee when working on full time, and
shall include tips and the reasonable value of board, rent,
housing, lodging or similar advantages received from an
employer, and if any employee shall receive wages paid in
part by his employer and in part by the United States un-
der any veterans' benefit law enacted by Congress, the term
"Average weekly wages" shall mean the total average
weekly wages from both sources earned by such an em-
ployee when working on full-time.
(9) "State Accident Fund" means the State Insurance
Fund provided for in Section 68 of this Article.
(10) The term "child" and "children" shall include post-
humous children and adopted children, whether members
of the deceased employee's household at the time of his
accident or death or not, and shall also include stepchil-
dren, illegitimate children and other children, if such step-
children, illegitimate children and other children were
members of the household of the decedent at the time of
the accident or death and had received contributions
toward their support from such deceased employee during
any part of the six months immediately preceding the acci-
dent or death.
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