862 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 437

knows the supervisors and knows them to be the officers as
affirmed in the application, and that each has subscribed
thereto in the officer's presence. The application shall be
accompanied by a statement by the State soil conservation
committee, which shall certify (and such statement need con-
tain no detail other than the mere recitals) that a petition
was filed, notice issued, and hearing held as aforesaid; that
the committee did duly determine that there is need, in the
interest of the public health, safety and welfare, for a soil
conservation district to function in the proposed territory
and did define the boundaries thereof; that notice was given
and a referendum held on the question of the creation of such
district, and that the result of such referendum showed a
majority of the votes cast in such referendum to be in favor of
the creation of the districts; that thereafter the committee
did duly determine that the operation of the proposed district
is administratively practicable and feasible. The said state-
ment shall set forth the boundaries of the district as they
have been defined by the committee.

The secretary of state shall examine the application and
statement and shall receive and file them and shall record
them in an appropriate book of record in his office. When
the application and statement have been made, filed, and
recorded, as herein provided, the district shall constitute a
governmental sub-division of this State and a public body cor-
porate and politic. The secretary of state shall make and
issue to the said supervisors a certificate, under the seal of the
State, of the due organization of the said district, and shall
record such certificate with the application and statement.
The boundaries of such district shall include the territory as
determined by the State soil conservation committee as afore-
said, but in no event shall they include any area included
within the boundaries of another soil conservation district
organized under the provisions of this Act.

G. After six (6) months shall have expired from the date
of entry of a determination by the State soil conservation
committee that operation of a proposed district is not admin-
istratively practicable and feasible, and denial of a petition
pursuant to such determination, subsequent petitions may be
filed as aforesaid and action taken thereon in accordance with
the provisions of this act.

H. Petitions for including additional territory within an
existing district may be filed with the State soil conservation
committee, and the proceedings herein provided for in the case
of petitions to organize a district shall be observed in the case
of petitions for such inclusion. The committee shall prescribe
the form for such petitions, which shall be as nearly as may