ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 11

sewage treatment plant, tank or pumping station or any
stream bed or any waterway, said Commission may pur-
chase the same from the owner or owners thereof, or fail-
ing to agree with them, may condemn the same by proceed-
ings in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County as now
provided for condemnation of land by public service cor-
porations, in Article 33A of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland; and said Commission may at the same
time condemn the interest of any tenant, leasee or other
person having an interest in said land. At any time after
ten days after the return and recordation of the verdict or
award in said proceeding, the said 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 upon the part of the defend-
ant; 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.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That as soon after
organization as possible, this Commission shall cause sur-
veys, plans, specifications and estimates to be made for
sewerage and drainage systems, and treatment works other
than those sewers used exclusively as lateral and sub-main
sewers, in those portions of the Sewerage District where,
in its judgment, main or trunk sewers, intercepting sewers,
pumping plants and treatment works in which, in its judg-
ment, such systems, or any of them are necessary, and shall
promote convenience and economy of installation and op-
eration. Whenever, and as, plans are completed in those
sections most needing service, the Commission shall give
notice, by publication in one or more newspapers published
in Annapolis, that said improvements are contemplated and
shall state the probable cost thereof, that plans of same
may be seen at its office, and that at a time specified in said
notice, any persons interested in said improvements will be
heard. Said Commission may, however, without notice
make such connections of sewer lines as may be deemed
necessary for the immediate relief of any community.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose
of providing funds for the design, construction, establish-
ment, maintenance, purchase or condemnation of the sewer-
age and drainage systems and treatment plants in the
Sewerage District, as described in Section 4 in the Sewer-
age District, said Commission is authorized and empowered