1350                               Laws of Maryland                         [Ch. 749

204B. The members of said Commission shall be a body corpo-
rate, by the name of the ''Charles County Metropolitan 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 provi-
sions 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 Charles County, for the con-
struction, extension or maintenance of any water main, sewer or
appurtenance thereof, or any sewage treatment plant, reservoir,
water treatment plant, storage tank or pumping station or for the
execution by the Commission of any other power or function vested
in it by this Act, said Commission may purchase the same from the
owners, or failing to agree with the owner or owners thereof, may
condemn the same by proceedings in the Circuit Court for the county
in which said land, structures or buildings, stream bed, waterway,
water rights or watershed is located, as are provided for condemna-
tion of land by public service corporations in the Public General
Laws of Maryland, 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 build-
ings, stream bed, waterway, water 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 pos-
session 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 part
of the defendant. At the time of said payment, however, the Com-
mission shall give its corporate undertaking to abide by and fulfill
any judgment in such appeal or further proceedings.

204C. Whenever twenty-five property owners, residing in any
locality in Charles County, shall in writing, signed with their respec-
tive names and addresses, petition the Commission to have said
locality, (the boundaries whereof shall be definitely stated in said
petition), constituted as a new sanitary district, the Commission, if
it approves, shall cause to be made a preliminary engineering survey
of the project to determine the feasibility and probable cost of pro-
viding such area with utilities, whether water, sewer or otherwise.
If the Commission disapproves of the project or is unable or unwill-
ing to undertake or obtain such preliminary engineering survey, it
shall so inform the petitioners by mail giving to each of said peti-
tioners an estimate of the cost of making or obtaining such a pre-
liminary engineering survey and no further action shall be taken on
said project unless and until the persons signing the petition therefor
cause the estimated cost of such preliminary engineering survey to
be paid to the Commission, who shall then proceed to make or obtain
such preliminary engineering survey. As soon as the data from such
preliminary engineering survey is available, the Commission shall
call a meeting of the owners of property in said district and at said
meeting inform them of the results of the preliminary engineering
survey, the probable costs, etc. If on a vote, a majority of the owners
of property in the area present at said meeting approve of the area
becoming a sanitary district, then the Commission shall call another
meeting of the owners of property in said area; such second meeting