1708                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 809

any sum or sums which may at any time be contributed to the State
or the fund by the United States of America or any agency thereof to
which the State may be or become entitled under any act of Congress
or otherwise, by reason of any payment made from the said fund.

(4)   When the fund shall equal or exceed [one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000.00)] five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00),
no further contribution thereto shall be required by employers or in-
surance carriers, or the State Accident Fund, but whenever thereafter
the amount of the fund shall be reduced below [fifty thousand dollars
($50,000.00)] two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000.00),
by reason of payments made pursuant to this section, or otherwise, or
whenever the Workmen's Compensation Commission shall determine
that payments likely to be made from the fund in the next succeeding
three (3) months will probably cause said Fund to be reduced below
[fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00)] two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars ($250,000.00), the said Commission shall notify all employers,
their insurance carriers, and the State Accident Fund that such con-
tributions are forthwith to be resumed as of the date set in such
notice, and such contributions shall thereafter continue as above pro-
vided in all cases above specified after the effective date of said notice,
and such contributions shall thereafter continue until the fund shall
again amount to [one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00)] five
hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00).

All funds in the Second Injury Fund as it existed on June 1, 1963,
shall thereafter be transferred to the Subsequent Injury Fund which
was created on this date; provided, that the Subsequent Injury Fund
shall assume the defense and a payment of all claims made against
the Second Injury Fund for injuries which arose prior to June 1,
1963.

(5)  [In any case which shall come before the Workmen's Com-
pensation Commission involving payments from the fund, it may, if
it deems necessary or desirable, SHALL, request the Attorney General
to furnish a member of his staff to represent the fund in hearings be-
fore it.] In any award it shall make from the fund, the Commission
shall specifically find the amount the injured employee shall be paid
weekly, the number of weeks' compensation to be paid, the date upon
which payments from the fund shall begin, and, if possible, the length
of time such payments shall continue. IN MAKING ANY AWARD
FROM THE FUND FOR A SUBSEQUENT INJURY, THE COM-
MISSION SHALL CONSIDER ANY PRIOR AWARD MADE BY
THE COMMISSION, OR BY A SIMILAR COMMISSION IN ANY
OTHER STATE OR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, IN DE-
TERMINING THE AMOUNT TO BE AWARDED FOR SUCH SUB-
SEQUENT INJURY.

The Chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Commission shall
assign to insurers, self insurers and the State Accident Fund for in-
vestigation and defense all claims which may involve the Subsequent
Injury Fund.

All assignments made under this section shall be made to insurers,
self insurers and the State Accident Fund in approximate proportion
to the total payrolls of all employments covered by the particular in-

surers, self-insurer and the State Accident Fund, and such payrolls

shall be calculated as soon as practical after January 1 of each year.