HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1731

County, for the construction, extension or maintenance of any
water main, sewer or appurtenance thereof, or any sewage
treatment plant, reservoir, water treatment plant, storage
tank or pumping station, or for the execution by the Commis-
sion of any other power or function vested in it by this Act,
said Commission may purchase the same from the owners, or
failing to agree with the owner or owners thereof, may con-
demn the same by proceedings in the Circuit Court for the
county in which said land, structures or buildings, stream bed,
waterway, water rights or watershed is located, as are pro-
vided for condemnation of land by public service corporations
in the public General Laws of Maryland, now or hereafter in
effect, and said Commission may likewise condemn the inter-
est of any tenant, lessee or other person having any right or
interest in said land, structures or buildings, stream bed,
waterway, water rights or watershed. At any time after ten
days after the return and recordation of the verdict or award
in said proceedings, the Commission may enter and take pos-
session of the property so condemned, upon first paying to the
Clerk of the Court the amount of said award and all costs
taxed to that date, notwithstanding any appeal or further pro-
ceedings upon the part of the defendant. At the time of said
payment, however, the Commission shall give Its corporate
undertaking to abide by and fulfill any judgment in such appeal
or further proceedings,

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever fifteen
property owners residing in any locality in Howard County
shall in writing petition the Commission to have said locality,
the boundaries whereof shall be definitely stated in said peti-
tion, constituted as a sub-district, then if the Commission, in its
discretion, shall deem it expedient to constitute said locality
as a sub-district in accordance with the prayer of said petition,
and if the County Commissioners consent thereto, the Commis-
sion shall cause plats of such locality to be made under the
supervision of its chief engineer, showing the proposed water,
sewerage or drainage systems, one copy of which plat shall be
filed in the office of the Commission, one in the office of the
County Commissioners and one in a plat book indexed "How-
ard County Metropolitan Commission", in the office where the
land records of Howard County are kept; and upon the filing
of said plat and the approval of said locality by the County
Commissioners of said County and the said Metropolitan Com-
mission, such district shown on said plat shall be, and the
same is hereby designated and constituted for the purposes of
this Act to be a separate sub-district, and shall be given by
the Commission a distinctive name and shall be subject to all
the provisions of this Act, and the filing of said plat shall con-
stitute legal notice to the public of such action of said Com-