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said year, that said artisan or laborer would be entitled to receive 

 as pay if such employee were alive and continued to be employed: 

 Provided.^ That if the vridow shall die at any time during the said 

 year her portion of said amount shall be added to the amount to be 

 paid to the remaining beneficiaries under the provisions of this sec- 

 tion, if there be any. 



Act May 30. 190S, c. 236, s. 2, 35 Stat. 556. 

 Reports of accidents to employees within act, and injuries therefrom. 



Sec. 3. That whenever an accident occurs to any employee em- 

 braced within the terms of the first section of this Act. and which 

 results in death or a probable incapacity for work, it shall be the 

 duty of the official superior of such employee to at once report such 

 accident and the injury resulting therefrom to the head of his Bureau 

 or independent office, and his report shall be immediately communi- 

 cated through regular official channels to the Secretary of Commerce 

 and Labor. Such report shall state, first, the time, cause, and nature 

 of the accident and injury and the probable duration of the injury 

 resulting therefrom ; second, whether the accident arose out of or in 

 the course of the injured person's employment; third, whether the 

 accident was due to negligence or misconduct on the part of the em- 

 ployee injured ; fourth, any other matters required by such rules and 

 regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe. 

 The head of each Department or independent office shall have power, 

 however, to charge a special official with the duty of making such 

 reports. 



Act May 30, 1908, c. 236, s. 3, 35 Stat. 557. 



Affidavit and physician's certificate in case of accidents resulting in death or 

 Incapacity for work; determination of compensation to be paid. 



Sec. 4. That in the case of anv accident which shall result in death, 

 the persons entitled to compensation under this Act or their legal rep- 

 resentatives shall, within ninety days after such death, file with the 

 Secretary of Commerce and Labor an affidavit setting forth their 

 relationship to the deceased and the ground of their claim for com- 

 pensation under the provisions of this Act. This shall be accom- 

 panied by the certificate of the attending physician settinc: forth the 

 fact and cause of death, or the nonproduction of the certificate shall 

 be satisfactorily accounted for. In the case of incapacity for work 

 lasting more than fifteen days, the injured party desiring to take 

 the benefit of this Act shall, within a reasonable period after the 

 expiration of such time, file with his official superior, to be for- 

 warded through regular official channels to the Secretary of Com- 

 merce and Labor, an affidavit setting forth the grou»ds of his claim 

 for compensation, to be accompanied by a certificate of the attend- 

 ing physician as to the cause and nature of the injury and probable 

 duration of tlie incapacity, or tlie nonproduction of the certificate 

 shall be satisfactorily accounted for. If the Secretary of Commerce 

 and Labor shall find from the report and affidavit or other evidence 

 produced by the claimant or his or her legal representatives, or from 

 such additional investigation ns the Secretary of Commerce and 

 Labor may direct, that a claim for compensation is established un- 

 der this Act. the compensation to be paid shall be determined as pro- 



