920 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 479

Flood District and in any other part of the City of Cumber-
land.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That the manner and
method by which said Will's Creek Flood District shall be
determined shall be as follows:

The said Mayor and City Council shall appoint a commis-
sion of three representative citizens of the City of Cumberland,
who shall serve for such period of time and for such compen-
sation as the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland may
by ordinance provide, and which said commission shall have
the power and authority to obtain engineering advice, and who
shall make or cause to be made a survey of all of the lands and
property located in any part of the City of Cumberland which
has heretofore been affected, or is hereafter in danger of
being affected, by the overflow or any part thereof or any
water from the stream of water known as Will's Creek (whether
said overflowing water is commingled with water from other
streams or not) when the same is flowing at flood tide, and
having thus determined what properties have heretofore been
affected by such overflowing waters or which are in danger of
being affected in the future by such waters, the said com-
mission shall thereupon report the location of such property,
together with the name of the owner or owners thereof, and a
short description of the same, or a reference to the deed or
other instrument under which the owner or owners hold the
same, to the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland, and upon
the receipt of said report, the said Mayor and City Council
shall thereupon give a notice by publication once a week for
two consecutive weeks in two daily newspapers published
in the City of Cumberland to all said owners of said property
of the substance of said report, and shall post a copy of such
notice on each property affected, or shall serve such notice
personally on the owners of said properties, warning all said
owners to appear in person or by agent or solicitor before the
said Council at such time as the Council may determine and
prescribe in said notice for the purpose of stating any objec-
tion any of said owners may have to their property being in-
cluded within said Will's Creek Flood District. The said
Mayor and City Council shall, after having heard said objec-
tions and given due consideration thereto, determine and there-
after by ordinance establish an area to be known as the Will's
Creek Flood District.