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nor shall the Commission levy any tax, assessment or benefit charge within
said territories until such time as the construction of a water and sewer
system or either is actually begun in the said communities, or either of
them.

1918, ch. 122, sec. 2. 1927, ch. 506, sec. 2.

991. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this subtitle,
said Sanitary District shall be under the jurisdiction of a Commission of
three members, one to be appointed by the County Commissioners of
Montgomery County, one by the County Commissioners of Prince George's
County, both upon the recommendation of the State Board of Health of
Maryland, and the third to be named by the Governor of Maryland, the
first appointments hereunder to be made on or before May 1st, 1918, upon
which date the terms of office shall begin. All appointees shall be residents
and taxpayers of said Sanitary District, and shall serve for four years, or
until their successors are appointed and have qualified. Upon the expi-
ration of the terms of the members of said Commission, their successors
shall be named in the same manner as the original appointments were
made. Any vacancy occurring at any time in the personnel of the Com-
mission shall be filled by the agency making the original appointment
and for the unexpired term. The annual salary of the Chairman of said
Com mission shall be three thousand dollars, and of one of said Commis-
sioners, not from the same County as the Chairman, forty-eight hundred
dollars, and for the third Commissioner two thousand dollars, all payable
monthly. The Chairman and the Commissioners to receive forty-eight
hundred dollars shall be designated by the Governor and the Commis-
sioner so designated to receive forty-eight hundred dollars shall give all
of his time and attention to the duties of his office, shall supervise and
superintend the outside operations of said Commission, and shall perform
such other duties as the Commission shall from time to time designate.
The Commission shall appoint, discharge at pleasure, and fix the com-
pensation of a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Chief Engineer, and such engi-
neering, legal, clerical and other force and help as, from time to time,
in its judgment may be deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of
this Act. Said Commission, for the convenience of the citizens of said
district may establish an office at a convenient place in the District of
Columbia and all acts, regulations or orders passed in the District of
Columbia by said Commission shall have the same force and effect as if
passed by said Commission when sitting in the Sanitary District; and all
acts, orders and regulations heretofore passed by said Commission while
sitting in the District of Columbia are hereby ratified and confirmed and
are to be given the same force and effect as if passed in the State of
Maryland. Said Commission shall annually publish in at least one news-
paper in Montgomery County, and one in Prince George's County a full
and true account of its receipts, expenses and expenditures. Prior to said
publications said accounts shall be fully audited by the State Auditor of
the State of Maryland, who shall be paid such compensation by the Com-