MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

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mission as is paid the Auditor for auditing other State accounts; pro-
vided, however, said Commission may in addition to said State Audit
employ a certified public accountant to audit its books and accounts. Said
Commission shall always keep available and open to public inspection dur-
ing business hours, at its principal office, a detailed audit and financial
statement of its accounts.

1918, oh. 122, sec. 3. 1920, ch 518, sec. 3. 1927, ch. 506, sec. 3.
992. The members of said Commission shall be a body corporate by
the name of the ''Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission," with the
right to use a common seal, to sue and be sued, and to do any and all
other corporate acts for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of
this Act. In the event of a judgment at law or in equity being recovered
against said Commission or for the purpose of amicably adjusting threat-
ened or pending litigation, the Commission shall at the annual tax levying
period of the respective County Commissioners next succeeding the rendi-
tion of said judgment or compromise certify to said County Commissioners
of both Counties, a tax rate, in addition to that required for its interest
and sinking fund requirements, that will, when levied and collected under
the provisions of Section 995 of this subtitle, produce an amount sufficient
to satisfy said judgment or other sum including costs and counsel fees, if
any, provided, however, that this provision shall relate only to any cause
of action occurring subsequent to the passage of this Act. Whenever it
shall be deemed necessary by said Commission to take or acquire any
land, structures or buildings, or any stream bed, water way, water rights,
or water shed, either in fee or as an easement, within or without the
Sanitary District, for the construction, extension or maintenance of any
water main, sewer or appurtenance thereof, or for any sewage disposal
plant, reservoir, water purification plant, tank or pumping station, said
Commission may purchase the same from the owners or failing to agree
with the owner or owners thereof, may condemn the same by proceedings
in the Circuit Court for the County in which said land, structures or
buildings, stream bed, water way, water rights, or water shed, as now pro-
vided for condemnation of land by public service corporations in the Code
of Public General Laws' of Maryland, except that land used for cemetery
purposes may not be condemned, and said Commission may likewise con-
demn the interest of any tenant, lessee or other person having an interest
in said land, structures or buildings, stream bed, water way, water rights
or water shed. At any time after ten days after the return or recorda-
tion of the verdict of award in said proceedings the said Commission may
enter and take possession of the property so condemned, upon first paying
the Clerk of the Court the amount of said award and all costs taxed to
date, notwithstanding any appeal or further proceedings upon the part
of the defendant; at the time of said payment, however, it shall give its
corporate undertaking to abide by and fulfill any judgment on such appeal
or further proceedings.