SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                       695

157. Commission, appointment, tenure, staff.

(d) The Secretary-Treasurer appointed by the Commission shall
be the collector of all charges and assessments made by the Com-
mission, and shall receive and account for all moneys which shall
be due and payable to said Commission from any source whatsoever.
All moneys deposited shall be protected by a depository bond, or by
such other securities as may be approved by the said Commission.
The Secretary-Treasurer shall give bond to the State of Maryland to
the amount of [$10,000.00] $25,000.00 or such greater amount as
the County Commissioners may prescribe with a good and sufficient
surety to be approved by the said Commissioners, with the condition
"that if the above bounden ............................ shall well and faith-
fully execute his office and shall account to the said Commission
for all moneys which he shall receive for account of the Commis-
sion, or be answerable for by law, then the said obligation to be
void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and effect." The said
bond, when approved, shall be recorded in the office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for St. Mary's County; and the person so
appointed, before entering upon the duties of his office shall take
an oath before the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said County, in
form similar to that taken by collectors of taxes, except as to the
title of the office. The Commission is hereby empowered to pay
the premiums on all bonds. All checks issued by said Commission
shall be countersigned by the Chairman. The said Commission
shall annually have its accounts audited by a certified public
accountant, to be selected by [said Commission, and paid by said
Commission, and publish a full, true and itemized account, under
oath, of its receipts and disbursements] and paid by the County
Commissioners. The Sanitary Commission shall publish annually a
statement of its revenue and expenditures in a newspaper pub-
lished in said county.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 159 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of St. Mary's County (1965 Edition, as
amended, being Article 19 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "St. Mary's County," subtitle "Sanitary Districts,"

said Section 159 having been last amended by Chapter ........ of the

Laws of Maryland of 1966, be, and it is hereby repealed, and that
new Sections 159 and 159A be and they are hereby enacted in the
place and stead of the Sections so repealed, to follow immediately
after Section 158 and to read as follows:

159.

The portion of St. Mary's County described in this section is
hereby designated and constituted for the purpose set forth in this
subtitle to be the "Mattapany Sanitary District," such sanitary dis-
trict having been previously approved by the County Commissioners
of St. Mary's County and a plat thereof recorded in liber M. R.F.I,
folios 2 to 5, inclusive, in a plat book indexed "St. Mary's County
Metropolitan Commission" in the office where the land records of
St. Mary's County are kept:

Beginning for the same at a point in St. Mary's County, Maryland
near the mouth of Little Kingston Creek (Coordinates North 178,-
750 feet, East 945,000 feet) and running North 50 degrees East 2,000