Section 5
SEC. 5. Section eight of the same Act, as amended, is further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 8. Death benefit.—If the disease contracted or injury received by the employees as provided in Section two hereof cause his death within two years from the date of such injury or sickness, the employer shall pay to the persons entitled thereto, or, in cases there shall be none to the person representing the deceased employee the burial expenses in the amount of two hundred pesos, and shall also pay to or for the following persons, in the order of priority and during the periods hereinafter set forth compensation equivalent to the following percentages of the average weekly wages of the employee as determined in Section nineteen of this Act: "(a) To the dependent widow or widower, in case there are no dependent children, forty-five per centum. "(b) To the dependent widow or widower in case there are one or two dependent children, fifty per centum, and if there are three or more dependent children, sixty per centum. The compensation to the widow or widower shall be for the use or benefit of the widow or widower and of the dependent children, and the Bureau may from time to time adjust the compensation between them in the most equitable manner possible. "(c) If there is no dependent widow or widower, but a dependent child or children, such child or children shall be paid forty per centum, with ten per centum additional for each child in excess of two, up to a maximum of fifty per centum, which shall be distributed in equal shares among the children if there were more than one. "(d) If there are no dependent widow, widower or children but there is a dependent father or mother, forty per centum to the father or mother if totally dependent, or twenty-five per centum if partly dependent, and if both parents are dependent; each shall be paid one-half of such compensation. If there is no parent, but dependent grandparents, the same compensation shall be paid as to a father or mother. "(e) If there are no dependent widow, widower, child, parent, or grandparent, but there is a dependent grand-child, brother or sister or two or more such, then twenty-five per centum shall be paid for one dependent and five per centum additional for each additional dependent, up to maximum of forty per centum, which shall be distributed share and share alike among the dependents if there be more than one. "(f) If there are no legal dependents, the employer shall pay the amount of one thousand pesos to the Workmen's Compensation Fund: Provided, That the said Bureau shall have direct control and supervision over such funds, subject to general auditing requirements, which shall be spent for the rehabilitation of crippled men in industry. "When several persons are entitled to compensation and there is disagreement concerning the share of the compensation each should receive, the Commission shall act as referee and designate the share to be allotted to each dependent."