MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3609

charge necessary to repair and efficiently maintain the same. The map
prepared shall show accurately by metes and bounds and such natural
features as may exist as bounds the district or area to be benefited by
such construction and establishment, together with the names of the vari-
ous property owners, roads, alleys, streets, whether public or private in
such district or area; the location of the natural or artificial topographic
features, and the location of all parts of the system under consideration,
whether within or without the district or area. Such survey shall be made
and such maps, plans and reports filed within one hundred and twenty
days of date of the filing of the petition.

Upon the filing of such map, plans and report, the said Commission
shall submit a copy of the same to the State Board of Health, and when
said Board shall approve the said system as to sanitary efficiency, design
and character, then the said Commission shall fix a day and place for hear-
ing on said petition and shall give notice thereof by publication of said
petition and the date set for the hearing, in the County papers, published
in or near such district or area once a week for at least two weeks. At
such hearing all persons affected by the construction of the proposed sys-
tem may appear and be heard upon the question as to whether the public
health, welfare and convenience requires the establishment of the proposed
system.

The said Commission shall thereupon decide whether or not the public
health and convenience require the construction and maintenance of the
proposed system, and if they decide that the proposed system is necessary
for the public health and convenience they shall appoint three capable
and upright citizens of Montgomery County, not residing in the district
or area to be served by the proposed system and not owning; property
therein, to be known as Sewerage and Drainage Examiners, who shall in-
vestigate and determine the probable cost of constructing and establishing
such systems and the amount to which each property owner or other per-
son residing in said district or area is benefited or damaged thereby, and
they shall return such estimate or probable cost, damage and benefit to the
said Commission. The said Commission shall thereupon assess the cost
of constructing and establishing the proposed system upon the persons who
are interested in proportion to the amount to which they axe damaged or
benefited thereby. The said Commission shall then cause notice to be
given to all persons assessed of the amount of assessments respectively so
made on them by said Commission, by publication once a week for a period
of two consecutive weeks in the newspapers published in Montgomery
County. Such notices shall state the date upon which objections to said
assessments of benefits and damages will be heard, such date to be not
less than twenty days from the date of the return of the examiners, and
copies of said advertisements shall be served upon the persons interested.
If they cannot be found or of the taxpayers residing without the County,
notices shall be mailed to them at their last known address as shown by
the tax books, and the property conspicuously posted by the sheriff of said
County, who shall thereupon return to said Commission the time and