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GENERAL LAWS. 431
nish reasonable medical aid, hospital services, and medicines when needed,
and if it does not furnish these immediately as and when needed, it shall
repay all sums reasonably paid or incurred for same, provided, reasonable
notice of injury shall be given to the said association, and this provision
requiring notice shall apply to all subsequent sections of this Act providing
for compensation.
SEC. 8. If death should result from the injury, the association
hereinafter created, shall pay to the legal beneficiary of the deceased employee
a weekly payment equal to 60 per cent. of his average weekly
wages, but not more than $15.00 nor less than $5.00 a week, for a period
of three hundred and sixty weeks from the date of injury; provided, that
the compensation herein provided for shall be distributed according to
the law providing for the distribution of other property of deceased.
SEC. 9. If the deceased employee leaves leaves no legal beneficiaries, or
creditors the association shall pay all expenses incident to his last sickness,
and in addition a funeral benefit not to exceed one hundred dollars;
provided, where the deceased leaves no beneficiaries as provided herein,
but leaves creditors, the association shall be liable to such creditors for
an amount not exceeding the amount that would otherwise have been
due beneficiaries, which amount paid shall not exceed amount due such
creditor or creditors.
SEC. 10. While the incapacity for work resulting from the injury
is total, the association shall pay the injured employee a compensation
equal to 60 per cent. of his average weekly wages but not more than
fifteen dollars, -nor less than $5.00 a week, and in no case shall the
period covered by such compensation be greater than four hundred
weeks.
SEC. 11. While the incapacity for work resulting from the injury
is partial, the association shall pay the injured employee a weekly compensation
equal to 60 per cent. of the difference between his average
weekly wages before the injury and the average weekly wages he is able
to earn thereafter, but in no case to be more than $15 a week; and the
period covered by such compensation to 'be in no case greater than three
hundred weeks.
SEC. 12. In case of the following specified injuries the amounts
hereinafter named shall be paid by the Association in addition to all
other compensation; (a) For the loss by severance of both hands at or
above the writs, or of both feet at or above the ankle, or the loss of one
hand and one foot, or the reduction to one-tenth of the normal vision in
both eyes, 60 per cent. of the average weekly wages of the injured eimployee,
but not more than fifteen dollars nor less than five dollars a week
for a period of one hundred weeks. (b) For the loss by severance of either
hand at or above the wrist, or either foot above the ankle, or the reduction
to one-tenth of normal vision in either eye, 60 per cent. of the average
weekly wages of the injured employee, but not more than $15 nor less
than $5 a week, for a period of fifty weeks. (c) For the loss by severance
at or above the second joint of two or more fingers, including
thumbs and toes, 60 per cent. of the average weekly wages of the injured
employee, but not more than $15.00 nor less than $5.00 a week, fot
a period of twenty-five weeks. (d) For the loss by severance of at least
one joint of a finger, thumb or toe, 60 per cent. of the average weekly
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1913-1914 [Volume 16], book, 1914; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth10838/m1/441/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .