756 LAWS OP MARYLAND [CH. 290

PLOYER, SUBJECT, HOWEVER, TO THE RIGHT OF
THE EMPLOYEE TO RECEIVE PAYMENT OF COM-
PENSATION FOR PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY
AND TO DEPENDENTS OF SUCH EMPLOYEE TO
RECEIVE COMPENSATION FOR HIS DEATH AS A
DIRECT RESULT OF SILICOSIS, ASBESTOSIS OR
OTHER PULMONARY DUST DISEASE, PROVIDED
SAID PERMANENT TOTAL DISABILITY AND/OR
DEATH RESULTS WITHIN FIVE YEARS OF THE
DATE OF THE ORIGINAL AWARD ENTERED IN
THE CASE. IN THE EVENT OF TOTAL DISABILITY
OR DEATH FROM SILICOSIS, ASBESTOSIS OR
OTHER PULMONARY DUST DISEASE, COM- pensation
shall be payable to employees and their dependents in the
same manner and in the same amounts as required to be
paid by employers to employees and their dependents who
are totally disabled or die from injury arising out of and
in the course of their employment as provided in Section
35 of this Article, [as follows: If disablement occurs, or
in the case of no claim for prior disablement, if death
occurs in the calendar month in which this sub-title be-
comes effective, the total compensation and death benefits
payable shall not exceed the sum of Five Hundred Dollars
($500. 00). If disablement occurs, or, in the case of no
claim for prior disablement, if death occurs during the
next calendar month, the total compensation and death
benefits payable shall not exceed Five Hundred and Fifty
Dollars ($550. 00). Thereafter the total amount of com-
pensation for death and benefits payable for total disability
and death shall increase at the rate of Fifty Dollars
($50. 00) per month; the aggregate payable in case to be
limited according to the foregoing formula for the month
in which total disability occurs, or, in case of no claim for
prior disability; in which death occurs. Such progressive
increase in the limitation of the total amount in any event
payable for total permanent disability and death due to
silicosis or asbestosis shall continue only until such total
amount equals but does not exceed the sums which would
be payable to the particular employee or his dependents;
had such total permanent disability and death been due to
an accidental injury.

In case of death from uncomplicated silicosis or asbes-
tosis, compensation shall be payable in accordance with the
aforegoing provisions of this section, provided, however,
that the compensation payable in any such case shall be
limited to a period not to exceed the average life expect-
ancy of a person of the age and sex of the deceased. ]