1. 772 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 715

premiums on all bonds. All checks issued by said Commission
shall be countersigned by the Chairman. The said Commis-
sion shall annually have its accounts audited by a certified
public accountant, to be selected by said Commission, and
paid by said Commission, and publish a full, true and itemized
account, under oath, of its receipts and disbursements in a
newspaper published in said county.

463B. The members of said Commission shall be a body
corporate, by the name of the "Allegany County Metropolitan
Commission" (referred to elsewhere in this sub-title as "the
Commission"), with the right to use a common seal, to sue
and be sued, and to do any and all other corporate acts for
the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this sub-title.
Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by said Commission
to take or acquire any land, structure or buildings, or any
stream bed, waterway, water rights or watershed, either in
fee or as an easement, within or outside of Allegany County,
for the construction, extension or maintenance of any water
main, sewer or appurtenance thereof, or any sewage treat-
ment plant, reservoir, water treatment plant, storage tank or
pumping station, or for the execution by the Commission of
any other power or function vested in it by this sub-title, said
Commission may purchase the same from the owners, or fail-
ing to agree with the owner or owners thereof, may condemn
the same by proceedings in the Circuit Court for the county
in which said land, structures or buildings, stream bed, water-
way, water rights or watershed is located, as are provided 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 interest 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 possession
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 proceedings
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.

463C. Whenever twenty-five property owners, residing in
any locality in Allegany County, outside of the corporate
limits of the City of Cumberland, the City of Frostburg and
the Town of Westernport, shall in writing petition the Com-
mission to have said locality (the boundaries whereof shall