1058                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 484

time to time the commission may deem necessary to carry out the
provisions of this chapter. The annual salary of each of said com-
missioners shall be determined by the Board of County Commissioners
of Cecil County, but such annual salary for the chairman and the
other commissioners shall not exceed $5,000 each and shall be pay-
able quarterly. The secretary-treasurer appointed by the commission
shall be the collector of all charges and assessments made by the
commission, and shall receive and account for all moneys which
shall be due and payable to said commission from any source what-
soever.

(c) All moneys deposited shall be protected by a depository bond,
or by such other securities as may be approved by the said com-
mission. The secretary-treasurer shall give bond to the State of
Maryland for not less than $25,000 with a good and sufficient surety
to be approved by the said commissioners, with the condition "that
if the above bounden ..... shall well and faithfully execute his office
and shall account to the said commission for all moneys which he
shall receive for account of the commission, 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 Cecil
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 and paid by said com-
mission, and publish a full, true and itemized account, under oath,
of its receipts and disbursements in a newspaper published in said
County.

19-2.

The members of said commission shall be a body corporate, by the
name of "Cecil County Metropolitan Commission" (referred to else-
where in this chapter 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 provisions of
this chapter. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by said com-
mission 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 Cecil County, for the construction, 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 com-
mission of any other power or function vested in it by this chapter,
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 condemnation of land
by public service corporations in the Public General Laws of Mary-
land, now or hereafter in effect, and said commission may likewise
condemn the interest of any tenant, lessee or other person having