ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1523

portions of Anne Arundel County over which the Commission
exercises authority, wherein in its judgment, such supply and
systems, or any of them, are necessary, and shall divide each
Sanitary District into water, sewerage or drainage districts in
such way as shall, in its judgment, best serve the needs of the
various communities, and shall promote convenience and econ-
omy of installation and operation. Whenever and as such plans
are completed, the Commission shall give notice by publication
in one or more newspapers published within the County, and
by handbills posted and circulated in the localities, where said
improvements are contemplated, and shall state in said notice
the probable cost of the contemplated improvements, and shall
further state therein that plans of the improvements may be
inspected at the Commission's office and that any person inter-
ested in said improvements will be heard by the Commission at
a time to be specified in the notice, but not less than ten days
after first publication thereof. If ten residents and landowners
in the district wherein the improvements are contemplated shall
thereupon file a petition with the Commission within ten days
after first publication of said notice protesting against the pro-
posed improvement, the Commission shall grant them a hearing
within ten days after such petition is filed in the office of the
Commission and after not less than five days' notice of the time
and place of said hearing by advertisement published in one or
more newspapers published within the County, and by personal
notice addressed to any one or more of the persons whose names
are signed to said petition. After due hearing, as aforesaid, the
Commission shall pass upon and decide the objections stated in
the petition; and shall dispose of the same by written order
concurred in by a majority of the Commissioners, which order
shall be published as aforesaid and a copy of which shall be
mailed to any one or more of the petitioners. If the petitioners
are not satisfied with the Commission's decision, they shall have
the right to take and enter, within ten days after the first pub-
lication of said order as aforesaid, an appeal to the County Com-
missioners of Anne Arundel County, who shall review after due
notice and hearing the Commission's decision and decide as.to
the necessity and propriety of the improvement contemplated
and whether the district can stand the cost of the same; and the
decision of the County Commissioners shall be final.

SEC. 7. And he it further enacted, That for the purpose of
providing funds for the design, construction, establishment, pur-
chase or condemnation of the water supply, sewerage and drain-
age system in any of the Sanitary Districts, said Commission is
authorized and empowered to issue bonds, from time to time, in
such amounts as it may deem to be necessary to carry on its
work, but at no time shall the total issue of bonds in any Sani-
tary District for all purposes, under this Act, exceed ten per