Section 6
SEC. 6. The first paragraph of Section twelve of the same Act, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Seven hundred seventy-two, is further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 12. Sundry provisions regarding death benefits.— In computing death benefits, the average weekly wages of the deceased employee shall not be reckoned at more than fifty pesos nor less than fourteen pesos; but the total weekly compensation shall not in any case exceed the average weekly wages computed in accordance with Section nineteen of this Act, nor shall the compensation paid in any case exceed in its aggregate the sum of six thousand pesos. "The bona fide payment of a death compensation by an employer to a dependent entitled thereto in the second place after another dependent or dependents shall protect and exonerate the employer, unless and until the dependent or dependents having priority right shall notify him of his or their claim. "In the event of death occurring after a period of total or partial disability, the period of disability shall be deducted from the respective total periods established in Section ten of this Act. "The compensation of a demented person shall be pain to the guardian of such person."