1124                                Laws of Maryland                         [Ch. 694

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 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 improvements are contemplated, and shall
state in said notice the probable cost of the contemplated improve-
ments, and shall further state therein that plans of the improve-
ments may be inspected at the Commission's office and that any
person interested in said improvements will be heard by the Com-
mission at a time to be specified in the notice, but not less than ten
days after first publication thereof. If twenty-five residents and
landowners in the sanitary district wherein the improvements are
contemplated shall thereupon, and within ten days after the last of
said publications of said notice, file a petition with the Commission
protesting 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 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 reasonableness of the objections stated in the peti-
tion; and shall dispose of the same by written order concurred in
by a majority of the Commissioners, 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 the petitioners are 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
governing body of said county who shall review the Commission's
decision and decide as to the necessity and propriety of the improve-
ment contemplated and whether the District can stand the cost of
the same; if the petitioners are not satisfied with the governing
body of said county's decision, they shall have ten days in which to
file an appeal in writing in the Circuit Court of said County.

882. (a) For the purpose of providing funds for the design, con-
struction, establishment, purchase or condemnation of water supply,
sewerage, and drainage systems in any of the sanitary districts, the
Commission of any particular District is authorized and empowered
to issue bonds, from time to time, upon the full faith and credit of
the county in which said District is located, in such amounts as it
may deem to be necessary to carry on its work, but at no time shall
the total issue of bonds in any sanitary district for all purposes under
this' sub-title exceed twenty-five per centum of the total value of the
property assessed for county taxation purposes within said sanitary
district. The bonds of each issue shall be dated, shall bear interest
at such rate or rates not exceeding five per centum per annum, shall
mature at such time or times not exceeding forty years from their
date or dates, as may be determined by the Commission, and may be
made redeemable before maturity, at the option of the Commission,
at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions as may
be fixed by the Commission prior to the issuance of the bonds. The
Commission shall determine the form of the bonds, including any