THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1507

any sums furnished by any of the petitioners to defray the
cost of the preliminary engineering survey.

430D. The Commission shall cause surveys, plans, specifi-
cations and estimates to be made for water supply, sewer-
age and drainage systems in those portions of Harford
County in which the Commission exercises authority, and
shall divide each sanitary district into water, sewerage and
drainage districts in such way as shall, in its judgment,
best serve the needs of the various communities, and shall
promote convenience and economy of installation and oper-
ation. Whenever, and as, such plans are completed, the Com-
mission shall give notice by publication in one newspaper
published within the county, for three weeks, and by hand-
bills posted and circulated in the localities where said im-
provements are contemplated, and shall state in said notice
the probable cost of the contemplated improvements, and
shall further state therein that plans of the improvements
may be inspected at the Commission's office and that any
person interested in said improvements will be heard by
the Commission at a time to be specified in the notice,
but not less than ten days after first publication thereof.
If ten residents and landowners in the sanitary district
wherein the improvements are contemplated shall there-
upon, and within ten days after the last of said publications
of said notice, file a petition with the Commission protest-
ing against the proposed improvement, the Commission
shall grant them a hearing within ten days after such
petition is filed in the office of the Commission and after
not less than five days notice of the time and place of said
hearing by advertisement published in one newspaper pub-
lished within the county, and by personal notices addressed
to any one or more persons whose names are signed to said
petition. After due hearing as aforesaid, the Commission
shall decide upon the reasonableness of the objections
stated in the petition; and shall dispose of the same by
written order concurred in by a majority of the Commis-
sioners, which order shall be published in the same manner
as notices are herein required to be published and a copy
of which shall be mailed to any one or more of the peti-
tioners. If a majority of the petitioners is not satisfied with
the Commission's decision, they shall have the right to take
and enter, within ten days after the last publication of said
order as aforesaid, an appeal to the County Commissioners
of Harford County, who shall review the Commission's
decision and decide as to the necessity and propriety of the
improvement contemplated and whether the district can