572 LAWS or MARYLAND. [CH. 245

time to time, in its judgment may be deemed necessary to carry
out the provisions of this Act, and the County Road Engineer
of Anne Arundel County shall be eligible to serve as Chief
Engineer at a reasonable compensation. The said commis-
sioners shall serve without compensation.

The said commission shall annually publish in at least one
newspaper in Anne Arundel County, a full and true account
of its receipts, expenses and expenditures, but prior to such
publication, said accounts shall be fully audited by a certified
public accountant to be employed and paid by said commission.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the members of
said commission shall be a body corporate, by the name of
the "Anne Arundel County Sanitary Commission, " with the
right to use a common seal, to sue and be sued, and to do any
and all other corporate acts for the purpose of carrying out
the provisions of this Act. Whenever it shall be deemed neces-
sary by said commission to take or acquire any land, structures
or buildings, or any stream bed, water way, water rights or
water shed, either in fee or as an easement, within or without
the said sanitary districts, for the construction, extension or
maintenance of any water main, sewer or appurtenance thereof,
or for any sewerage disposal plant, reservoir, water nitration
plant, tank or pumping station, said commission may purchase
the same from the owners or failing to agree with the owner
or owners thereof, may condemn the same by proceedings in the
Circuit Court for the county in which said land, structures or
buildings, stream bed, water way, water rights or water shed
as now provided for condemnation of land by public service
corporations in the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
and said commission may likewise condemn the interest of any
tenant, lessee or other person having an interest in said land,
structures or buildings, stream bed, water way, water rights or
water shed. Provided, however, that the said Commission
shall not construct any water or sewerage system in competi-
tion with any privately owned system or systems now in exist-
ence, but are hereby authorized to purchase such privately
owned system or systems at a fair price, or in the event agree-
ment on price cannot be reached, then to condemn in the usual
way, and under legal proceedings provided in such cases, and
take over such system or systems after payment of price agreed
upon, or condemnation valuation ascertained.

At any time after ten days after the return and recordation

of the verdict or award in said proceedings, the said commis-