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annual salary of the docoasod, at tlu> rato of tliirtyixT centum if only one child survives; to fortv- 

 fivc per centuip if three children survive, anil to sixty jht centinn if four or inore'children 

 survive. 



(f) The legitimate, natural or adopted surviving children recognized as such before the 

 accident, whose mother shall have died previous to the injury that caused the death of the 

 parent, to a compensation which, in total and as a maximum, shall not exceed fifty per centum. 

 The distril)ution of this compensation shall be regulated and fixed in accordance with the pro- 

 visions of the foregoing paragraph. 



((/) The legitimate, natural or adopted i)arents or grand-parents, if the decea.sed shall not 

 have left any children as specified in paragraphs (b) and (c), and provided they were dependent, 

 to a compensation equivalent to ten per centum of the annual salary of the deceased, appor- 

 tioned between them in equal parts, and not exceeding the total of thirty per centum annually 

 on the btvsis of the two annual salaries already stated. 



(e) The legitimate or natural brothers or sisters of the deceased from a first or second 

 marriage, provided they be dependent and there be no surviving children or other dependents, 

 and they be under the age of eighteen years, or otherwise unal)le to work due to mental inca- 

 pacity or physical defect, to a compensation which shall be proportioned and distributed in 

 accordance with the provision in paragraph (d). 



(/) If there be surviving wife (or husl)and), children and other dependents as stated in the 

 foregoing paragraphs, they shall be entitled to three-fifths or to one-half of the compensation 

 fixed in paragraphs {b), (c) and ((/). In case the survivmg wife (or husband) remarries, she or 

 he shall forfeit all rights to compensation. 



The benefits or compensations referred to in this Law shall cease in regard to the children 

 or grand-children, on reaching their majority, and provided they be not disabled; in regard to 

 other dependents, at their death; and in regard to the brothers and sisters, on reaching the age 

 of eighteen years or if they marry. 



Claims for compensation shall be made the following year counted from the day of the 

 injury. If after the lapss of one year the disability of ths employee shall continue, the com- 

 pensation shall be governed by the provisions relating to permanent disabilitj'. 



The compensation on account of the death of the employee does not exclude the compensa- 

 tion due him during the period of his life from the time of the injury to his death. 



The compensation determined by this Law shall be increased by one-half more of its 

 amount if the injury shall occur in an estabUshment or place or in the performance of some 

 work in which the machinery or appUances used shall lack the necessary safeguards for the 

 prevention of accidents. 



The compensation and benefits referred to in thisLaw, shall not be assigned, and are exempt 

 from attachment, and to that effect the Courts will not entertain any reclamation in that 

 sense. Likewise all renunciation of an employee to the comjjensation of the present Law shall 

 be declared null and void, and in general all agreement contrary to its provisions. 



To foreign workmen or employees meeting injurj- and who desire to leave the countrj', the 

 compensation shall be commuted by a lump sum, a,s follows : 



(a) For total and permanent disability, a sum equal to the total annual salary or wages 

 of three years' work. 



(b) I^or temporary and permanent disability, a sum equal to the total sum of the daily 

 loss of wages or salary of the injured in three years' work. 



(c) In case of death, the employees' heirs shall be paid the same compensation provided 

 in paragraph (a), distributed in the form provided by this Law. 



(d) In case of variable salaries, the daily average .shall be ascertained by computing the 

 salary received during the two months preceding the injury. 



(e) If the employee, on deciding to get the compensation on a lump sum, shall have already 

 received certain sums as compensation, said sums received shall be deducted from the amount 

 to be paid to him. 



In ordefta prevent any accidents in the work, a Technical Baard shall be formed consisting 

 of two engineers and an architect, for the purpose of studying the latest mechanisms invented 

 up to the present. 



