622 ARTICLE 3.

engineering, clerical and other force and help as in their judgment are
necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act, may discharge such
appointees at pleasure, and may exact from them such indemnity bonds
as they may deem proper. The Commissioners shall publish annually in
one or more newspapers published in Baltimore County a full and true
account of their receipts, expenses and expenditures under this Act. Prior
to such publication, their accounts shall be audited by a certified public
accountant to be employed and paid by the Commissioners out of such
Metropolitan District or Sub-district Funds as may at the time be avail-
able.

1924, ch. 539, sec. 3. B. Co. C. (1928), sec. 329.

329. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the Commissioners to
take or acquire any land, structures or buildings, source of water supply,
any stream bed, water way, water rights, water shed, franchises, water,
sewerage, or drainage systems, or other property, either in fee or as an-
easement, within or without the Metropolitan District, except within the
territorial limits of Baltimore City, for the construction, extension or
maintenance of any water supply, water main, sewer or appurtenance
thereof, or for any sewage disposal plant, reservoir, water purification
plant, tank or pumping station, or for any other purpose under this Act,
the Commissioners may purchase the same from the owners, or, failing to
agree with the owner or owners thereof, may condemn the same, except
within the territorial limits of Baltimore City, by proceedings in the Cir-
cuit Court for the county in which said land, structures or buildings,
source of water supply, stream bed, water way, water rights, water shed,
franchises, water, sewerage, or drainage systems, or other property is sit-
uated, as now provided for condemnation of land by public service cor-
porations in the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, and the Com-
missioners may likewise condemn the interest of any tenant, lessee or other
person having an interest in said land, structures, or buildings, source
of water supply, stream bed, water way, water rights, water shed, fran-
chises, water, sewerage, or drainage systems, or other property. At any
time after ten days following the return aud recordation of the verdict
or award in said proceedings, the commissioners may enter and take pos-
session of the property so condemned, upon first paying to the Clerk of
the Court the amount of said award and all costs taxed to date, notwith-
standing any appeal or further proceedings upon the part of the defend-
ant; at the time of said payment, however, they shall give their corporate
undertaking to abide by and fulfill any judgment on such appeal or fur-
ther proceeding. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the
properties, plants, franchises and rights of the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore, or to any property, plants, franchises and rights that may
be hereafter acquired by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for
the protection or enlargement of its water supply, sewerage storm water
drainage, or refuse disposal systems or any other of its utility properties,
except by and with the consent of the Mayor and City Council of said