J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                           1075

to be separate sanitary districts and shall be given by the Commis-
sion distinctive names, shall be subject to all the provisions of this
sub-title and shall be separate taxing districts and the filing of said
plat and resolution shall constitute legal notice to the public of such
action of the Commission. After the exercise of the powers granted
by this sub-section (d), no new sanitary districts shall be created
under the provisions of Section 652 (b) of this sub-title within any
area that has been divided by resolution into sanitary districts.

653. The Commission [shall] may cause surveys, plans, specifica-
tions and estimates to be made for water [supply,] and sewerage
[and drainage] systems in those portions of the county or counties
in which the Commission exercises authority, and [shall] may divide
each sanitary district into water [,] and 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 com-
pleted, the Commission shall give notice by publication in one news-
paper published within [the county] such county or counties, 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, based
on then available engineering estimates, which cost figure shall not be
final for any purpose other than such notice, 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
improvement, the Commission shall grant them a hearing within
[ten] thirty 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] such county or counties, and by per-
sonal notices addressed to any one or more persons whose names are
signed to said petition. After due hearing as aforesaid, the Com-
mission shall decide upon the reasonableness of the objections stated
in the petition; 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 Com-
mission'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 or governing bodies of [said counties]
the county or counties in which lie the sanitary district or sanitary
districts where such improvements are contemplated who shall re-
view the Commission's decision and decide as to the necessity and
propriety of the improvement contemplated and whether the District
can stand the cost of the same; and the decision of the governing
body of a county or the joint decision of the governing bodies of two
or more counties shall be final. In the event any one governing body
shall decide that such contemplated improvements should not be