872 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 437

a certification that the committee has determined that the
continued operation of the district is not administratively
practicable and feasible, pursuant to the provisions of this
section, the supervisors shall forthwith proceed to terminate
the affairs of the district. The supervisors shall dispose of
all property belonging to the district at public auction and
shall pay over the proceeds of such sale to be covered into
the State treasury. The supervisors shall thereupon file an
application, duly verified, with the Secretary of State for the
discontinuance of such district, and shall transmit with such
application the certificate of the State Soil Conservation Com-
mittee setting forth the determination of the committee that
the continued operation of such district is not administratively
practicable and feasible. The application shall recite that
the property of the district has been disposed of and the pro-
ceeds paid over as in this section provided, and shall set
forth a full accounting of such properties and proceeds of the
sale. The Secretary of State shall issue to the Supervisors a
certificate of dissolution and shall record such certificate in
an appropriate book of record in his office.

Upon issuance of a certificate of dissolution under the pro-
visions of this section, all ordinances and regulations thereto-
fore adopted and in force within such districts shall be of no
further force and effect. All contracts theretofore entered
into, to which the district or supervisors are parties, shall re-
main in force and effect for the period provided in such con-
tracts. The State Soil Conservation Committee shall be sub-
stituted for the district or supervisors as party to such con-
tracts. The committee shall be entitled to all benefits and sub-
ject to all liabilities under such contracts and shall have the
same right and liability to perform, to require performance,
to sue and be sued thereon, and to modify or terminate such
contracts by mutual consent or otherwise, as the supervisors
of the district would have had. Such dissolution shall not
affect the lien of any judgment entered under the provisions of
Section 11 of this Act, nor the pendency of any action in-
stituted under the provisions of such section, and the com-
mittee shall succeed to all the rights and obligations of the
district or supervisors as to such liens and actions.

The State Soil Conservation Committee shall not entertain
petitions for the discontinuance of any district nor conduct
referenda upon such petitions nor make determinations pur-
suant to such petitions in accordance with the provisions of
this Act, more often than one in five (5) years.

SEC, 2. And be it further enacted, That if any provision
of this Act, or the application of any provision to any person
or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and