348                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 243

the needs of the various communities, and shall promote convenience
and economy of installation and operation. Whenever, and as, such
plans are completed, the Commission shall give notice by publication
in one newspaper published within the county, for three weeks, and
by handbills 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 improve-
ments 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 (10) residents and landowners in the sanitary district wherein
the improvements are contemplated shall thereupon, and within ten
(10) days after the last of said publications of said notice, file a
petition with the Commission protesting against the proposed im-
provement, the Commission shall grant them a hearing within ten
(10) days after such petition is filed in the office of the Commission
and after not less than five (5) days notice of the time and place of
said hearing by advertisement published in one newspaper published
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 reason-
ableness of the objections stated in the petition; and shall dispose of
the same by written order concurred in by a majority of the Com-
missioners, 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 petitioners. If a majority of the
petitioners are not satisfied with the Commission's decision, they
shall have the right to take and enter, within ten (10) days after the
last publication of said order as aforesaid, an appeal to the County
Commissioners of Wicomico County, who shall review the Commis-
sion's decision and decide as to the necessity and propriety of the im-
provement contemplated and whether the district can stand the cost
of the same; and the decision of the County Commissioners shall be
final.

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