Chap. 427.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 39 of an act entitled an
act to prevent industrial accidents; to provide medical and surgical care
for injured employees; to establish rates of compensation for personal
injuries or deaths sustained by employees in the course of employment;
to provide methods for insuring the payment of such compensation; to
create an industrial commission for the administration of this act, and to
prescribe the powers and duties of such commission; to levy a tax and
appropriate funds for the administration of this act, which became a law
March 21, 1918, as amended by an act approved March 15, 1920. [S B 39]

Approved March 24, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
on thirty-nine of the above entitled act, known as “The Virginia
Vorkmen’s Compensation Act,” as amended, be amended and re-
nacted so as to read as follows:

Section 39. If the death results from the accident within six
ears, the employer shall pay or cause to be paid, subject, however, to
ne provisions of the other sections of this act, in one of the methods
ereinafter provided, to the dependent of the employee wholly de-
endent upon his earnings for support at the time of accident a
eekly payment equal to fifty per centum of his average weekly
rages, but not more than twelve dollars nor less than five dollars
week for a period of three hundred weeks from the date of the
jury, and burial expenses not exceeding one hundred dollars. If
1e employee leave dependents only partly dependent upon his earn-
igs for support at the time of the injury, the weekly compensation
> be paid as aforesaid, shall equal the same proportion of the weekly
ayments for the benefit of pesons wholly dependent as the amount
ontributed by the employee to such partial dependents bears to the
nnual earnings of the deceased at the time of his injury. When
reekly payments have been made to an injured employee before his
eath the compensation to dependents shall begin from the date of
he last of such payments, but shall not continue more than three
undred weeks from the date of the injury. If the employee does
ot leave dependent, citizens of and residing at the time of the
ccident in the United States or Dominion of Canada, the amount
f compensation shall not in any case exceed one thousand dollars.