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ments, on request from them, in the performance of the duties im- 

 posed on them by law. 



Compensation in event of injury or death. 



Act of March 11, 1912 (37 Stat., 74). 



That the provisions of the act approved May thirtieth, nineteen 

 hundred and eight, entitled "An act granting to certain employees of 

 the United States the right to receive from it compensation for in- 

 juries sustained in the course of their employment," shall, in addition 

 to the classes of persons therein designated, be held to apply to any 

 artisan, laborer, or other employee engaged in any hazardous work 

 under the Bureau of Mines or the Forestry Service of the United 

 States : Provided, That this act shall not be held to embrace any case 

 arising prior to its passage. 



(The act above made applicable is printed next below.) 



Compensation for injuries. 



Act of May 30, 1908 (35 Stat, 556). 



That when, on or after August first, nineteen hundred and eight, 

 any person employed by the United States as an artisan or laborer in 

 any of its manufacturing establishments, arsenals, or navy yards, or 

 in the construction of river and harbor or fortification work or in 

 hazardous employment on construction work in the reclamation of 

 arid lands or the management and control of the same, or in hazard- 

 ous employment under the Isthmian Canal Commission, is injured 

 in the course of such employment such employee shall be entitled to 

 receive for one year thereafter, unless such employee, in the opinion 

 of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, be sooner able to resume 

 work, the same pay as if he continued toJ)e employed, such payment 

 to be made under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and 

 Labor may prescribe: Provided, That- no compensation shall be paid 

 under this act where the injury is due to the negligence or miscon- 

 duct of the employee injured, nor unless said injury shall continue 

 for more than fifteen days. All questions of negligence or miscon- 

 duct shall be determined by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. 



Compensation to widows and children. 



Sec. 2. That if any artisan or laborer so employed shall die during 

 the said year by reason of such injury received in the course of such 

 employment, leaving a widow, or a child or children under sixteen 

 years of age, or a dependent parent, such widow and child or children 

 and dependent parent shall be entitled to receive, in such portions 

 and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor 

 may prescribe, the same amount, for the remainder of the 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 widow 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 section, if there be any. 



Reports of injuries. 



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 



