458                               Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 353

tion having been enacted by Chapter 669 of the Acts of 1955, in-
creasing the number of property owners required to appeal the
establishing of a sanitary district, increasing the number of prop-
erty owners necessary to petition for a hearing against a proposed
improvement in a sanitary district and correcting errors therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 395 and 397 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Cecil
County (1953 Edition), being Article 8 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Cecil County", sub-title "Sanitary Dis-
tricts", said section having been enacted by Chapter 669 of the Acts
of 1955, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

395. The Commission may establish a sanitary district or districts
in Cecil 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 welfare 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 within the proposed sanitary district, which estimated
assessed valuation shall be furnished the Commission by the County
Commissioners. When such surveys and estimates are completed,
the Commission shall give notice by publication in one or more news-
papers published within the County, once a week for three (3) succes-
sive weeks, and by hand-bills 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 pres-
ent 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 dis-
tricts, 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)] fifty (50) 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 [on] an appeal
to the County Commissioners of Cecil County. The County Commis-
sioners of Cecil 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 Commission or
may sustain the decision of the Commission. If the said property
owners are dissatisfied with the order of said County Commissioners,
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 Cecil 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 for the health,