THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     343

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, ivaterway,
ivater 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, hoivever, the Commission shall give its cor-
porate undertaking to abide by and fulfill any judgment in such
appeal or further proceedings.

423. The Commission may establish a sanitary district or dis-
tricts in Wicomico County for the purpose of providing a water
and/or sewerage system in the areas where said Commission deems
it necessary for the health, safety and ivelfare of the residents living
in such areas by causing surveys to be made of the proposed district
or districts and by preparing a complete engineering and financial
report which shall include the estimated assessed property valuation
as fixed for county taxation ivithin the proposed sanitary district,
which estimated assessed valuation shall be furnished the Commis-
sion by the County Commissioners. When such surveys and estimates
are completed the Commission shall give notice by publication in one
or more newspapers published within the County, once a week for
three (3) successive weeks, and by handbills posted and circulated
in the proposed sanitary district or districts, which notice shall
specify the proposed area to be included in said sanitary district or
districts, together with the time and place of hearing to be held, at
which hearing those present shall be informed of the contents of the
engineer's survey and the probable cost of establishing said district
or districts. If, on a vote, a majority of the owners of property
present at said hearing vote to approve the establishment of said
sanitary district or districts, then the area described in said survey
shall be and become a sanitary district or districts for the service or
services approved at said meeting. If ten (10) property owners
residing in said area are dissatisfied with the establishment of the
district by the Commission after said hearing, they shall have the
right to take and enter within ten (10) days after said Commission's
decision is filed with the Clerk of the County Commissioners an ap-
peal to the County Commissioners of Wicomico County. The County
Commissioners of Wicomico County shall review the decision of the
Commission after having given notice by publication in one or
more newspapers published within the county once a week for three
(3) successive weeks and by written notice to the protestants, which
notice shall specify the time and place at which the hearing will
be held. The County Commissioners after reviewing the facts at
said hearing may, in their discretion, reverse the decision of the Com-
mission or may sustain the decision of the Commission. If the said
property owners are dissatisfied with the order of said County Com-
missioners, they shall have the right to take and enter within thirty
(30) days after the decision of said County Commissioners an appeal
to the Circuit Court for Wicomico County. In the event no appeal
is taken from the decision of the Commission approving said district
or in the event the County Commissioners and the Court, if such an
appeal is taken thereto, rule that said sanitary district is necessary