JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the County Commissioners shall deem it expedient that
examiners should be appointed to view the grounds for the
purpose of opening, altering or closing a road, they shall
appoint three persons as examiners, who shall be freeholders
in the county, and not interested in or holding lands through
which the road is proposed to be opened, altered or closed;
but the appointment of examiners shall not prevent the said
County Commissioners at any time thereafter from contract-
ing with the owner or owners as above provided, and the
County Commissioners of said county are authorized, when
the county roads cannot be conveniently drained by drains
along the said county roads, to make the same upon the prop-
erty outside the limits thereof, and they shall contract for
the lands that may be required for that purpose as above pro-
vided; or they may proceed to condemn the lands that may be
necessary for the purpose under the provisions of Sections
248 to 253, both inclusive, Article 23, title "Corporations,"
and any amendments thereto.

Opening, clos-
ing or altering
roads.

Sec. 209. The examiners, before they proceed to act as
such, shall take an oath to execute the trust reposed in them
faithfully and without favor, affection or partiality, which
oath shall be endorsed on the order of appointment and re-
turned therewith.

Examiners
shall take oath

Sec. 210. Said examiners, or a majority of them, shall give
notice oi the time and place 6f meeting by publishing the
same once a week for two successive weeks in some news-
paper or newspapers published in Baltimore County, and by
causing a copy of the same to be delivered to every owner
through or along whose property the proposed road will pass,
or be publicly posted on said property, in case the owner can-
not be found, at least five days before the day of meeting, and
in case the owner be an infant or non compos mentis, then a
copy of said notice shall be left with the parent or guardian of
said infant, or with the committee or person having charge of
the person alleged to be non compos mentis, and, at the time
appointed, the examiners, or a majority of them, shall meet
on the premises and proceed to examine and determine
whether the public convenience requires that the road should
be opened, altered, or closed, as the case may be; but they
shall have power to adjourn from time to time.

Rxaminers
shall give
notice of time
and place of
meeting.

Sec. 211. If the application be for opening, closing or alter-
ing a road, and if the said examiner shall determine that the
public convenience requires that the road should be opened,
closed or altered, they shall proceed to locate the same in

If decision in
favor of
opening road,
etc.