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Children are taken to include persons between nine and fifteen years 

 old, men and women persons between fifteen and seventy, and old people 

 those over seventy. 



These indemnities are due only in the case of accidents which occur 

 in the course of agricultural labour or by violent means connected with 

 such labour. All persons within the scope of the existing law as to accidents 

 are excluded from the insurance unless a special contract be made to in- 

 sure them. 



Sindicato per I'assicurazione mutua degli operai contro gli injortuni 

 sul lavoro fra gli imprenditori di tagli di boschi {Syndicate of ivoodcutting 

 contractors for the mtitiial insurance of ivorkmen against the accidents of labour), 

 Rome. — As is known, the law of 31 January 1904 included woodcutting 

 among the works in the case of which insurance is compulsory, if the la- 

 bourers employed on it numbered more than five. The relevant tariff 

 was however fixed at the somewhat high rate of 90 liras for every 

 thousand liras of wages. 



The syndicate in question was formed by a resolution of 20 February 

 1905 and began its activity on 15 March of the same year. Its by-laws 

 rule that it pay indemnities in the measure fixed by the law, that is five 

 times the annual wage in case of death, six times the annual wage in case 

 of permament total disablement, and half his dail}^ wages to a man who is 

 temporarily disabled. 



Members pay for each labourer they employ a cautionary fee of 10 

 liras, and a monthly premium equivalent to from 25 to 30 liras for each 

 thousand liras of wages, according to whether the men are employed on 

 making cross-beams or staves or on woodcutting, charcoal burning, etc. 



