ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1319

shall receive, in addition to the sum of $2, 400 per annum as
now provided by law, the sum of twelve hundred dollars per
annum, payable monthly, as compensation for the discharge
of the duties imposed upon them under this Act.

The Commissioners shall appoint and fix the compensation
of a chief sanitary engineer, and shall appoint or authorize the
appointment of such engineering, clerical and other force and
help as in their judgment are necessary for carrying out the
provisions of this Act, may discharge such, appointees at
pleasure, and may exact from them such indemnity bonds as
they may deem proper. The Commissioners shall publish an-
nually in one or more newspapers published in Baltimore
County a full and true account of their receipts, expenses and
expenditures under this Act. Prior to such publication, their
accounts shall be audited by a certified public accountant to be
employed and paid by the Commissioners out of such Metro-
politan District or Sub-district Funds as may at the time be
available.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever it shall
be deemed necessary by the Commissioners to take or ac-
quire any land, structures or buildings, source of water
supply, any stream bed, water way, water rights, water shed,
franchises, water, sewerage, or drainage systems, or other prop-
erty, either in fee or as an easement, within or without the
Metropolitan District, except within the territorial limits of
Baltimore City, for the construction, extension or maintenance
of any water supply, water main, sewer or appurtenance
thereof, or for any sewage disposal plant, reservoir, water puri-
fication plant, tank or pumping station, or for any other pur-
pose under this Act, the Commissioners may purchase the
same from the owners, or, failing to agree with the owner or
owners thereof, may condemn the same, except within the ter-
ritorial limits of Baltimore City, by proceedings in the Circuit
Court for the county in which said land, structures or build-
ings, source or water supply, stream bed, water way, water

rights, water shed, franchises, water, sewerage, or drainage
systems, or other property is situated, as now provided for con-
demnation of land by public service corporations in the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, and the Commissioners
may likewise condemn the interest of any tenant, lessee or
other person having an interest in said land, structures or
buildings, source of water supply, stream bed, water way,
water rights, water shed, franchises, water, sewerage, or drain-