288 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 118

all conveyances made thereafter shall be by such square num-
bers and all tax and other county and official references shall
be by such square numbers and all sub-divisions of land there-
after within such municipality shall take such consecutive
square or block numbers as may be given by said Commission.
The expense of such map shall be borne by the municipality re-
questing the same.

SEC. 7. For the purpose of enabling said Commission to
make its survey, plans and plats and to establish the permanent
system of streets and highways, herein provided for, the said
Commission, may, in addition to the tax rate it is authorized to
certify to the respective County Commissioners for the purpose
of providing for the interest and sinking fund of its general
water and sewer bonds, certify to the respective County Com-
missioners an additional tax rate, not exceeding two cents on
the one hundred dollars, which shall be levied, collected and
paid over as said taxes are now provided for the said bonds.
All sums received by said Commission from the additional tax
rate shall be preserved in a separate fund and used only for
the purposes set forth in this Act, The Commission shall re-
quire payment from each person or persons submitting a plat
for approval an amount approximately equal to the cost of
labor involved in determining whether said plat shall be ap-
proved or not, which sum shall be paid before said plat is ap-
proved and carried into the fund provided for in the above
section, not within the Sanitary District.

SEC. 8. Nothing. in this Act shall be taken to abrogate
alter or impair any provision of any existing contract between
the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission and the in-
corporated towns within said district, or to repeal Section 2
of Chapter 692 of the Acts of 1920 or any re-enactment
thereof.

SEC. 9. Any person interested in any sub-division, of land
in said district who may feel aggrieved by any ruling or re-
quirement of the said Commission under this Act may appeal
to the County Commissioners of the county within which the
land lies, who shall upon petition setting forth such grievance,
set a date, notify all parties concerned, and after a hearing,
make such an order as they may deem reasonable and proper.

SEC. 10. That this Act is hereby declared to be an emergency
law and necessary for the immediate preservation of the pub-
health and safety, and being passed upon a yea and nay vote