Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                    1435

and upon the filing of said plat and the approval of said locality by
the governing body and the Commission, such sanitary district shown
on said plat shall be, and the same is hereby designated and con-
stituted for the purpose of this sub-title to be a separate sanitary
district, and shall be given by the Commission a distinctive name and
shall be subject to all the provisions of this sub-title, and the filing
of said plat shall constitute legal notice to the public of such action
of the Commission. That for the purpose of providing for the or-
ganization and preliminary expenses of any newly constituted sani-
tary district, the governing body shall furnish the Commission from
time to time such sum, as in its discretion said governing body may
deem proper, all of which shall be repaid out of the first bond issue
of the particular district.

585.  The Commission shall cause surveys, plans, specifications and
estimates to be made for water supply, sewerage and drainage sys-
tems in those portions of the county in which the Commission exer-
cises 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 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 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 im-
provement, 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 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 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 counties
who shall review the Commission's decision and decide as to the neces-
sity and propriety of the improvement contemplated and whether the
District can stand the cost of the same; and the decision of the gover-
ning body shall be final.

586.  (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