3980 ARTICLE 17.

sion may at the same time condemn the interest of any tenant, lessee or
other person having an interest in said land or other property. At any
time after ten days after the return and recordation of the verdict or
award in said proceeding, the Commission may enter and take possession
of said property so condemned upon first paying to the Clerk of the Court
the amount of said award and all costs taxed to date, notwithstanding any
appeal or further proceeding on 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 proceeding if there
be an appeal, or on the expiration of the appeal time limit if there be no
appeal, provided, however, that no condemnation authorized by this sec-
tion shall be instituted by the Commission within that portion of the Dis-
trict located within Prince George's County without the writen approval
first obtained of the District Council of that portion of the said district.

1927, ch. 448, sec. 11.

730. The Commission is empowered, in pursuance of the development
and carrying out of its plan, to make, from time to time, surveys for the-
exact location of the lines of future streets, roads, boulevards or other
highways in the District or any portion thereof and to make plats of the
areas thus surveyed showing the exact locations of the lands which the
Commission designates as the locations of such streets, roads, boulevards
or other highways, and the contemplated grades thereof. Before the adop-
tion of any such plat, a public hearing shall be held thereon, notice of the
time and place of which shall be sent by mail to the owners of all lands
upon or through which such platted highway or highways are located.
Upon the adoption of any such plat, the Secretary of the Commission shall
transmit one attested copy of the plat to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of the County in which the location or locations of the platted highway
or highways shown on the plat are situated and shall send one attested
copy of such plat to each of the owners of the lands included within such
platted highway locations. No such location shall be deemed to be the
opening of any such highway or the entry upon or condemnation of any
property within such located highway, nor shall the same interfere in any
way with the rights of the owners of the full use of their property. The
Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery and the Board of County
Commissioners of Prince George's Counties sitting separately are hereby
created special boards of appeals for the purposes set out in this section
of this Act, each with respect to property located within the respective
counties. After the recording of any such plat, the owner of any land
included within the highway locations as shown on such plat, may appeal
within six months to such Board of Appeals, which Board of Appeals
shall have the power upon any such appeal and by a vote of the majority
of its members, to set aside such plat or any part or requirement thereof.
Before taking any such action, said Board of Appeals shall give a hearing
at which the parties in interest and others shall have an opportunity to
be heard. At least fifteen days' notice of the time and place of such hear-