HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(e)  In all cases, questions of dependency, in
whole, or in part, shall be determined by the Commission in
accordance with the facts in each particular case existent
at the time of the injury resulting in death of such
employee, except as otherwise provided in this subsection
(8).

(f)  If there be no dependents, the disbursements
shall be limited to the expense provided for in § 37 hereof.
In addition to these disbursements, all insured and
self-insured employers are subject to assessments as
provided in § 91(e) of this article.

(g)  The right to any compensation payable to any
dependent and unpaid at the date of death of any such
dependent 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.

(h) Nonresident 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 such cases the consular officers shall have
the right to receive, for distribution to such nonresident
alien dependents, all compensation awarded hereunder, and
the receipt of such consular officers shall be a full
discharge of all sums paid to and received by them.

(i) In case of the remarriage of a wholly
dependent widow or widower of a deceased employee, without
dependent children at the time of the remarriage, she or he
as the case may be shall receive two years compensation. In
case of the remarriage of a partially dependent widow or
widower of a deceased employee, without dependent children
at the time of the remarriage, she or he, as the case may
be, shall receive two years compensation, but the total sum
of the payments made prior to remarriage shall not exceed
$17,500.00. No widow or widower shall receive any benefits
under this article where the marriage shall have taken place
after the person entitled to benefits hereunder shall have
been injured, provided there are no dependent children.

(j) A husband or wife of an injured employee,
who has deserted said employee for more than one year prior
to the time of the injury or subsequently shall not be a
beneficiary under this article.

(k) The benefits in case of death shall be paid
to such one or more of the dependents of the decedent for
the benefit of all the dependents as may be determined by
the Commission, which may apportion the benefits among the
dependents in such manner as it may deem just and equitable.
The dependent or persons to whom benefits are paid shall