1504 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 679

subject to the approval of said County Commissioners, shall
fix the compensation of a Secretary-Treasurer, and/or a
chief engineer, and such engineering, legal, clerical and
other personnel and help, as from time to time the Commis-
sion may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this
sub-title. The Secretary-Treasurer if any appointed by the
Commission shall be the collector of all charges and assess-
ments made by the Commission, and shall receive and ac-
count for all moneys which shall be due and payable to said
Commission from any source whatsoever. All moneys de-
posited shall be protected by a depository bond, or by such
other securities as may be approved by the said Commis-
sion. The Secretary-Treasurer shall give bond to the State
of Maryland to the amount of $10, 000. 00 with a good and
sufficient surety to be approved by the said Commissioners,
with the condition "that if the above bounden shall well
and faithfully execute his office and shall account to the
said Commission for all moneys which he shall receive for
account of the Commission, or be answerable for by law,
then the said obligation to be void, otherwise to be and re-
main in full force and effect". The said bond, when ap-
proved, shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Harford County; and the person so ap-
pointed, before entering upon the duties of his office shall
take an oath before the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said
County, in form similar to that taken by collectors of taxes,
except as to the title of the office. The Commission is
hereby empowered to pay the premiums on all bonds. All
checks issued by said Commission shall be countersigned by
the Chairman. The said Commission 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.

430B. The members of said Commission shall be a body
corporate, by the name of the "Harford County Metropoli-
tan Commission" (referred to elsewhere in this Act 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 Harford County,
for the construction, extension or maintenance of any water
main, sewer or appurtenance thereof, or any sewage treat-