514 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 444

tion shall be executed and sworn to as provided in said sub-
section F of Section 49; and shall be accompanied by a state-
ment by the State Soil Conservation Committee, which shall
certify (and such statement need contain no detail other than
the mere recitals) that a petition was filed, notice given and
a referendum held on the question of dividing and/or com-
bining the named districts; that the Committee did duly deter-
mine that such division and/or combination was administra-
tively practicable and feasible; and that the division and/or
combination of the property, assets and rights was decided
upon and carried out in accordance with the provisions of this
sub-title. The said statement shall set forth the boundaries
of the district as they have been described in the petition, or
further defined by the, Committee.

F. The Secretary of State shall examine the applications,
and shall receive and file them, and record them in the book
for the recording of applications for the organization of dis-
tricts; whereupon the old districts shall cease to exist as such,
and the resulting districts shall constitute governmental sub-
divisions of this State and public bodies corporate and politic;
and the said Secretary shall issue to the said supervisors of
each resulting district, a certificate, under the seal of the
State, of the due constitution by division and/or combination
(as the case may be) of such district, and shall record said
certificate with the application and statement.

G. Upon the issuance of the certificate of due constitution
of each such district under the provisions of this sub-title, all
ordinances and regulations theretofore adopted and in force
within the former districts shall be of no further force and
effect. All contracts entered into, to which an old district or
the old supervisors thereof, are parties, shall remain in force
and effect for the period provided in such contracts. The State
Soil Conservation Committee shall be substituted for the dis-
trict or supervisors as a party to such contracts. The Commit-
tee shall be entitled to all benefits and subject to all liabilities
under such contracts and shall have the same right and liabil-
ity to perform, to require performance, to sue ami be sued, and
to modify or terminate such contracts by mutual consent or
otherwise, as the supervisors of the former district would have
had. The Committee may designate and direct any of the new
districts to act as its agent to carry out any contract or duty,
or enforce any right, or perform any other work which accrues
to it under this section on account of the division and/or com-
bination of an old district.

H. The district constituted by such division and/or com-
bination, and the supervisors thereof, shall have the same