THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1671

amendments, and that a new section be and it is hereby added
to said Article to be known as Section 495A and to follow
immediately after Section 495 of said Article, and all to read
as follows:

487 (b). The annual salary of each of said Commissioners
shall be as follows: The Chairman shall receive a salary of
[Twelve Hundred] Fifteen Hundred Dollars per year, payable
monthly; each associate member of the Commission shall re-
ceive a salary of [Nine Hundred] Twelve Hundred Dollars
per year, payable monthly.

495. Whenever fifteen property owners residing in any
locality in Anne Arundel County outside of the boundaries of
the Sanitary District shall in writing petition the Commission
to have said locality, the boundaries whereof shall be definitely
stated in said petition, constituted as a part of the whole
Sanitary District, for the purpose of providing water and/or
sewerage facilities, then the Commission shall prepare without
cost to the petitioners a preliminary estimate to determine
the approximate cost of providing such facilities. The Com-
mission will also submit an estimate of the cost of making
surveys and preparing a complete engineering and financial
report which shall include the estimated assessed property
valuation as fixed for County taxation purposes, within the
petitioned area, which estimated assessed valuation is to be
furnished to the Commission by the County Commissioners.
Whenever such preliminary estimates are completed, the Com-
mission shall give notice by publication in one or more news-
papers published within the County, and by handbills posted
and circulated in the locality where said proposed facilities
are contemplated, which notice shall specify the proposed area
to be served, together with the time and place of a hearing to
be held, at which hearing those present shall be given the prob-
able cost of the proposed facilities in the area to be served, as
shown by the preliminary survey, and of the probable cost of
the preparation of the complete engineering and financial re-
port incident thereto. If the estimated cost of the proposed
facilities, including the cost of the engineering and financial
report incident thereto, is estimated to exceed fourteen per-
centum of the assessed property value as fitted for County taxa-
tion purposes, within the petitioned area, or if the project is
not feasible from an engineering or financial standpoint, then
the Commission may, in its discretion, deny the petition.
[, then if the Commission, in its discretion, shall deem it ex-
pedient to constitute said locality in accordance with the
prayer of said petitioners, ] If the Commission, in its discre-
tion, shall deem it advisable to constitute the locality, in ac-